Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals that demonstrate progress in achieving ...

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals that demonstrate progress in achieving ...

Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...

CDMHC’s innovative programs divert hundreds of patients from the hospitals and emergency departme...

Utilizing Six Sigma's DMAIC model, this project looked at ways to decrease errors in the document...

The project improved the pharmacy to hospital floor Rx process to decrease returns, optimize auto...

In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...

Broadens view of care delivery from hospital-based practice to the entire bundle episode (30-days...

This AHRQ video vignette  illustrates how to engage dialysis patients in infection prevention....

It is certain that health status is profoundly influenced by the places in which people live, wor...

Patient and family engagement is associated with fewer adverse events, lower health care costs, d...

The goal of this project was to decrease the utilization rates of indwelling urinary catheters an...

Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...

An accurate home medication list serves as the "source of truth" for the entire process of medica...

The goal of this project was to reduce the amount of global office visits by using Lean Six Sigma...

Falls prevention continues to be a focus on all patient units and is a priority for safe care thr...

Blood transfusions to treat anemia can have a significant impact on patient outcomes. It was reco...

The project catalyst noted inconsistencies in providing diagnosis-related, evidence-based interve...

The C. diff collaborative is an ongoing initiative that was developed to improve the early identi...

Erie County Medical Center's "boots on the floor" initiative began by hiring five full-time patie...

The Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence website highlights quality improvement stories at hundreds...

Read about how patient and family engagement practices are related to patient experiences. This s...

This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...

Two health care systems and more than 20 community organizations are improving the health and wel...

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...

The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...

Utilization of Evidence-Based Guidelines for Outcomes Improvements, 30-Day Readmissions and Morta...

Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...

Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...

The project catalyst noted inconsistencies in providing diagnosis-related, evidence-based interve...

Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...

After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...

National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

This blog post is from H&HN, the journal of the American Hospital Association and was written by ...

The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...

The ER blood culture contamination rate remained above the national target even after implementin...

The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...

SMH was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative designed to improve quality, effi...

The Institute for Diversity in Health Management, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, works close...

Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...

St. John's implemented a web-based business intelligence platform that integrates physician quali...

A multidisciplinary committee found that despite an overall sepsis mortality rate similar to expe...

Teams of individuals who communicate effectively dramatically reduce the consequences of human er...

Protecting workers from exposure to all types of respiratory hazards is an important issue for ho...

HPOE and Leavitt Partners worked in collaboration to detail how accountable care organizations (A...

In addition to identifying priority health needs and aligning partners and resources to address c...

Variation and delays in the early mobilization of patients in the ICU can result in an increased ...