Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This project explains how a multisite, outpatient breast cancer and lymphedema rehabilitation pro...

In January 2015, Southern Illinois Healthcare, based in Carbondale, was awarded an 18-month USDA ...

The premise of this project was that failure to maintain a patient's respect and dignity represen...

Approximately two years ago frontline staff presented a proposal to remove bed and chair alarms f...

Tufts Medical Center made a decision to create its own quality improvement training for its workf...

In 2012, a physician-led Pioneer accountable care organization recognized an opportunity to bette...

North Shore Medical Center aims to provide the perfect patient experience based on evidence-based...

The skilled nursing facility three-day waiver program is an exciting opportunity at Partners Heal...

Nighttime or off-shift intubations are a low-frequency, high-risk procedure in a community hospit...

North Shore Medical Center is dedicated to safely transitioning all emergency department patients...

This health care system's unique post-acute care (PAC) continuum of Inpatient Rehabilitation Faci...

The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

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

The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

The Wisconsin Quality of Life Index is a multidimensional model for measuring patients’ quality o...

Lake Placid and Tupper Lake, nursing homes that are part of Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, N.Y....

Building successful partnerships with patients and families may be a key strategy in a hospital’s...

To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...

Providing world-class quality health care may seem an audacious goal for a small or rural hospita...

Research shows that when patients are engaged in their health care, it can lead to measurable imp...

Patients may be Christian, Jew, Muslim or of any other religious expression—at Lutheran Medical C...

There is often a lack of coordination among the various health and social systems that provide in...

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH577 Beds Cincinnati Children’s Hospit...

Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...

Atlantic Health SystemNew Jersey1,308 Beds Atlantic Health System owns and operates Morristown M...

Among California's African American, Native American, Latino and Hmong populations, a diagnosis o...

While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...

Using Plan-Do-Study-Act, this initiative prioritized utilization of spirometry as the standard di...

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

The National Committee for Quality Assurance starts an accountable care organization accreditati...

Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...

n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...

A report released jointly by AARP's Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN F...

The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...

This report discussses the Center for Disease Control's involvement with Prevention Research Cent...

The Urgency of Health System Reforms to Ensure Respect for Patients'  Wishes and Accou...

The Problem Progress West didn't so much have a problem but an opportunity. By opening a new hos...

W hat is patient- and family-centered care? Why does it matter? How does it fit with a hospital's...