Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

In 2015, the geriatric and palliative care team at South Nassau Communities Hospital sponsored a ...

In response to a rapidly transforming health care environment, hospitals and health systems acros...

BackgroundIllinois Valley Community Hospital is a 49-bed, not-for-profit hospital located in Peru...

BackgroundMedStar Health is a not-for-profit health system in the Maryland and Washington, D.C., ...

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

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

The hospital identified two process improvement opportunities related to medication safety effort...

Creating a quieter hospital environment can help the healing process and improve the patient expe...

In January 2015, Southern Illinois Healthcare, based in Carbondale, was awarded an 18-month USDA ...

The premise of this project was that failure to maintain a patient's respect and dignity represen...

Approximately two years ago frontline staff presented a proposal to remove bed and chair alarms f...

Tufts Medical Center made a decision to create its own quality improvement training for its workf...

In 2012, a physician-led Pioneer accountable care organization recognized an opportunity to bette...

North Shore Medical Center aims to provide the perfect patient experience based on evidence-based...

The skilled nursing facility three-day waiver program is an exciting opportunity at Partners Heal...

Nighttime or off-shift intubations are a low-frequency, high-risk procedure in a community hospit...

North Shore Medical Center is dedicated to safely transitioning all emergency department patients...

This health care system's unique post-acute care (PAC) continuum of Inpatient Rehabilitation Faci...

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

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

This toolkit has tips on  Selecting Patients and Families to Serve as Advisors Preparation fo...

The Wisconsin Quality of Life Index is a multidimensional model for measuring patients’ quality o...

Lake Placid and Tupper Lake, nursing homes that are part of Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, N.Y....

This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, ...

Three Illinois hospitals received recognition for “delivering quality with distinction” by the Il...

The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quali...

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

Kaiser Permanente, as an integrated health care delivery system, has made significant progress to...

Transforming organizations, such as academic health centers or teaching hospitals, toward creatin...

This primer discusses community benefit laws across the United States, noting differences in fede...

Assisted living facilities allow residents to "age in place" by adjusting their level of care and...

At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients the...

Acute care hospitals have been establishing palliative programs at a rapid pace; the United States n...

Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

This report is part of a new effort to provide medical students with information about the patter...

AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

Secondary analysis of data from two studies examining palliative care in rural areas was conducte...

Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...

This decision-maker brief offers programmatic and policy changes that can help practices, especia...

This report utilizes Dartmouth Atlas data to show differences in resource utilization among the 2...

South Nassau Communities Hospital initiated the "Knot So Fast" project to promote a safe and effi...

Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...

Traditionally, primary care physicians maintain chief responsibility for treating their criticall...

Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...

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

In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conduc...

The National Committee for Quality Assurance starts an accountable care organization accreditati...

The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...

Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...

A report released jointly by AARP's Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN F...