Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

For patients, the transition between acute and post-acute care is rife with risk. Even with moder...

Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Physician’s Organization implem...

The Hospital Group focused on reducing the readmission rate on the rehabilitation service unit (R...

MOU—Mobile Observation Unit—provides home-based urgent care for patients experiencing at-risk med...

Cultural competency is critical to reducing health care disparities and improving access to high-...

This HPOE webinar highlights innovations for eliminating health care disparities and will feature...

Baseball managers tinker with team lineups to improve results on the field, and hospitals can do ...

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

Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...

Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...

As hospitals expand their focus on providing equitable care, attention on those who are lesbian, ...

The Bridge Model improves transitions of care by utilizing master’s-educated social workers in a ...

Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs direct judicious antimicrobial use to optimize patient outcome...

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...

In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...

A patient's home environment or lack of support system can have a negative impact on their health...

To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...

The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...

April is National Minority Health Month. In 2011, the AHA and four partners formed Equity of Care...

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

Hospitals and care systems are uniquely positioned to play an integral role preventing violence i...

Hospital Menonita de Cayey, a 208-bed facility in Cayey, Puerto Rico, used best practices and pee...

This toolkit is a user-friendly “how-to” guide to help accelerate the elimination of health care ...

U.S. hospitals aree xploring what it means to be a hospital in a rapidly transforming health care...

Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...

This handy visual aid illustrates the main points from "2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Benchma...

Hospital-based Strategies for Creating a Culture of Health provides background on the Robert Wood...

The foundation of all efforts to identify disparities, improve quality, achieve equity and delive...

This infographic provides a sample of the findings from the 2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Ben...

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

This updated chartpack offers a snapshot of some common strategies used to improve the quality of...