Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

A complete list of every HPOE/HRET guide created since 2010. This list features nearly 80 guides ...

The clinic throughput time was viewed as excessive and lacked standardized best practices. A new ...

This HPOE guide, a collaboration with the American Society for Healthcare Engineering, explores w...

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

The Heathcare Association of New York State announced its 2015 Community Health Improvement award...

The concept of the Triple Aim is  widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...

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

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...

The Problem--Emergency departments were at capacity or beyond it, extending wait times. This resu...

OSF Healthcare, Peoria, Ill., wanted to improve the care of patients experiencing an ST elevation...

The patient experience as measured by patient satisfaction scores is an organizational goal. In t...

St. Joseph Regional Health Center went on a Lean journey to not only save money, but improve the ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...

Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...

The goal was to improve turnaround times of troponin and EKGs within the cardiac patient populati...

Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...

The OSF cardiac service line implemented a STEMI Improvement project to identify obstacles that c...

The rural community of Ellenville, New York (population 4,000), and the New York borough of Brook...

With nearly half of all emergency departments operating at or above capacity and the majority of ...

Overcrowding and bottlenecks with patient flow plague hospitals and emergency rooms across the co...

In 2008, a project was underway to renovate Southampton Hospital's emergency department (upgradin...

Improving patient flow throughout the Bon Secours Charity Health System is critical to patient sa...

Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...

Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed a...

Efficient bed placement for patients can mean fewer discharge delays, decreased length of stay an...

A trip to the emergency department too often conjures up images of crowded waiting rooms and exte...

Responding to an explosive growth in patient population, Yale-New Haven Hospital implemented a su...

An integrated approach to project design drove breakthrough improvement in operating results at S...

Labor and delivery departments are busy places. At New York-Presbyterian, providing appropriate b...

Timely access to health care is important for everyone, particularly our nation's veterans. From ...

Rarely does an orthopedic physician discuss information workflow with an ER doc, but at Regions H...

When an employee found directions in her hospital?s emergency department?with directions to other...

After reading many success stories about hospitals streamlining and improving patient flow in the...

The medical standard for timely angioplasty was 90 minutes door to balloon.  The average for Lehi...

Seamless, effective patient handoffs are a critical piece of any hospital?s patient safety framew...

Evergreen Hospital Medical Center, Kirkland, Wash., implemented best practices in patient flow bu...

ED bottlenecks are common problems in hospitals causing excessive wait times, decreasing patient ...

When change proves challenging, involving everyone in the process can be key. Advocate Good Sheph...

The Problem Inefficiencies in the fast track at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have long b...

The Problem Like many hospitals, Westmoreland struggled with significant ED crowding and patient...

At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...

The Problem Advocate Christ Medical Center's space in the admittance bay area and resource usage...