Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This toolkit, released by the AHA, provides guidance and information to hospitals and health syst...

As a new generation of payment and delivery system reform emerges, much focus has been on a subse...

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

Adirondack Health is working with multiple sectors of the community, such as the Franklin County ...

Homelessness is a hidden but real issue in Chittenden County, VT. University of Vermont Medical C...

Analyzing contributing factors and implementing targeted, sustainable solutions have helped hospi...

While much work has been done in the hospital setting, patient falls continue to be a problem. As...

A health care collaboration in rural Missouri is expanding patient access to primary and behavior...

Since September 2015, the AHA/HRET HEN 2.0 hospitals have been working to reduce hospital-acquire...

Reducing and eliminating patient harm are at the forefront of patient safety and continue to be a...

At a 350 bed community teaching hospital, potentially preventive readmissions data from the Illin...

This project addresses the health care system's strategic initiative to ensure interdisciplinary ...

The hospital identified an opportunity to improve its discharge planning process to allow more ti...

Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...

In response to high readmission rates coming from the health system’s skilled nursing facility (S...

The facility partnered with local emergency medical services (EMS) providers to improve early rec...

Chronic wounds are a growing problem in the United States. Based on evidence-based research of re...

The problem faced by the health system was the lack of a coordinated approach for the review and ...

Hospital readmissions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failu...

The hospital began working on its sepsis initiative in January 2014, after root cause analysis sh...

Advance care planning is a critical element of wellness for all adult patients, regardless of dia...

The Reducing Readmissions: Making Data Real project decreased acute rehospitalization rates by al...

Limited provider appointment availability in the clinic was causing delays for patients seeking c...

The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...

Surgical site infections (SSI) lead to patient suffering, morbidity and mortality, extended lengt...

Evidence-based practice supports early goal-directed therapy for patients with sepsis. Improving ...

The goal of this project was to reduce the incidence of contrast-induced neuropathy (CIN) as a re...

The neurosurgery service at this Level I trauma center had experienced high rates of surgical sit...

The health system did not have an adequate process for notifying staff when a patient was on cont...

In 2013, the facility’s hospital-onset (HO) infection rate for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) ha...

The project focused on managing sepsis in the emergency department and in admitted patients, with...

The hospital’s venous thromboembolism (VTE) rate for total joint patients was 36.2 in 2011 and 37...

High rates of hospital readmissions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...

For several years, the hospital has been focused on reducing 30-day readmissions. After learning ...

Overutilizing blood transfusions adds significant costs and can increase patient length of stay a...

This project involves raising awareness and expanding the palliative care program at HSHS St. Joh...

Readmissions are a burden for patients, families and health care providers. HSHS St. Joseph's Hos...

Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...

The goal of this quality improvement project was to reduce the length of hospitalization, to impr...

This academic medical center developed and implemented a program to improve outcomes and reduce r...

“Every staff member counts” and “every patient counts.” With this mantra, AllianceHealth Pryor in...

The Lung Partners Primary Respiratory Care at the Crouse Hospital is managing the needs of patien...

The AHA's Physician Leadership Forum and Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative have relea...

A health system in rural Minnesota has helped develop an innovative model to prevent prescription...

Effective and sustainable hospital-community partnerships are critical to building a Culture of H...

The Coachella Valley is a region in Southern California with an incredibly high rate of HIV. Base...

An integrated health system headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Avera Health serves patie...

Based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Gundersen Health System is an integrated tertiary referral center ...

St. Joseph Health, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a 208-bed hospital in Napa, California, is...

The new HPOE  guide “Triple Aim Strategies to Improve Behavioral Health Care” describes strategie...