Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This guide is a synopsis of a conversation held at the Association for Healthcare Resource & Mate...

Never underestimate the power of data. Hannibal (Mo.) Regional Hospital focused on collecting and...

Preventing hospital-acquired infections, reducing surgical complications and reducing readmission...

This HPOE presentation highlights the business imperative for equity of care.  As the health care...

Eliminating hospital-acquired infections, preventing patient falls, reducing preventable readmiss...

As health care leaders implement diverse improvement projects, from reducing hospital-acquired in...

Lean transformation means improved patient care, employee satisfaction and reduced costs as MSHA ...

Learn from the best of the best. The 2013 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize® recipients will s...

This report discusses the importance of health in all policies, an approach to improving health b...

The Florida Hospital Association highlights its quality improvement initiatives with several repo...

On the Cusp Initiative GoalReduce the occurrence of two frequent hospital-acquired infections—ur...

At North Shore-LIJ Health System, teamwork is everywhere. This New York health system uses TeamST...

This article explores how geographic health information systems can be used to improve the health...

Southeastern Health, Lumberton, N.C. 452 beds 16,000 impatient admissions 76,000 emergency d...

St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Conn. 396 licensed beds Full-service teaching hospi...

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare (Glendale, Wis.) 11 hospitals, 70 clinic sites, three long-term ...

Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...

This annual survey of employers provides a detailed look at trends in employer-sponsored health c...

Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...

The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...

In July 2013, the AHA released another collection of action-oriented resources that can help hosp...

This articles explores how HealthPartners decided to target nonclinical determinants of populatio...

Many of the nation's hospitals and health systems have made progress laying the building blocks f...

Board members have a critical role to play in setting the tone for meaningful quality improvement...

The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...

The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...

This report from the Department of Health and Human Services describes a plan to bolster implemen...

New Ulm Medical CenterNew Ulm, MN45 Beds The Problem New Ulm Medical Center, a critical access h...

Wrangell Medical CenterWrangell, AK22 Beds The Problem Wrangell Medical Center is located in Wra...

Yuma District HospitalYuma, CO12 Beds The Problem Yuma District Hospital, located in Yuma, Color...

In 2008, Ellis Hospital launched a medical home at its Ellis Health Center campus. This initiativ...

Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and Northern Counties Health Care, Inc.,  have had a long-...

Young children who missed more than half of recommended well-child visits had up to twice the ris...

Concord (N.H.) Hospital • 230-bed regional medical center • 17,194 admissions • 295 medical staff...

Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, Jackson, Miss.– 633 beds– 3,000-plus employees In 1997, Miss...

Think of all the instruments, equipment and furniture in a hospital operating room. Any of these ...

Telepsychiatry is playing a pivotal role in providing timely care to hospitalized mental health p...

"Metrics for the Second Curve of Health Care" expands on four strategies originally identified in...

Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typic...

Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...

Data suggests that the hospital has a three year (2006-2009) CHF readmission average of 24.2 perc...

An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...

Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...

Preoperative/procedure testing for surgical, cardiac catheterization and scheduled C-section pati...

 HPOE is pleased to highlight case studies from the Illinois Hospital Association’s Institute f...

The University of Michigan Health System used lean management and the plan-do-check-act cycle to ...

According to the Pew research center,  74 percent of all adults in the United States use the Inte...

The University of Connecticut's community-based education program collaborated with community par...

After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...