Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Outpatient registration at OSF Center for Health required patients to stand in line for extended ...

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

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

Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...

There is a need for greater understanding of the factors that lead to improved process quality an...

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

Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...

Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...

The IHI Improvement Capability Self‐Assessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...

After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...

This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...

The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...

At the 7th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium in Chicago this fall, Kathi Patterson,...

Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine shocked the health care field and the general public wit...

The Problem When the performance improvement team began to take stock of the situation in Advoca...

The Problem Several processes used in the care of patients of Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical ...