Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

After recognizing asthma as a major condition for many patients in the emergency department, St. ...

Hospitals are working to achieve all elements of the Triple Aim by redesigning traditional ways o...

At hospitals and health care systems across the country, executives, clinicians and staff are lea...

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...

Concurrent review of three core measure sets has ensured appropriate and timely patient care. The...

The emergency department (ED) was experiencing extended lengths of stay for psychiatric patients,...

Reducing inpatient length of stay has a strong impact on value and organizational performance, an...

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

Mercy, a large Catholic health care system, began its telehealth initiatives with an eICU program...

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

Funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Serv...

Recognizing the need to build a just culture, the leadership team at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hos...

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

The collaborative was launched by Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care in 2012 to trans...

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

Patient and system tracers have been conducted at this institution since 2008. Prior to this proj...

A house wide effort was lead this year to teach and embed continuous improvement methodology and ...

As the conventional analogy notes, change occurs when an organization finds itself atop a burning...

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...

The health system's vision in 2014 was "to transform the delivery and financing of health care to...

The ICMP Program is a Care Manager collaborative created to ensure the transition of patient care...

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...

Under the leadership of the Process Improvement (PI) Department, the organization has been drivin...

The Perioperative Medicine Model of Care is a three-pronged approach to the postoperative care of...

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

TEMPO: Together Everyone Improves Patient Outcomes, an initiative undertaken at Saint Vincent Hos...

Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...

Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that diagnostic care for patients who were referred within the...

As the complexity and cost of cancer care increases, there is an urgent need to support and track...

New England Quality Care Alliance, a physician network, implemented a medication prior authorizat...

Newton-Wellesley Hospital reviewed rates of third and fourth degree obstetrical trauma (Patient S...

The integrated specialty pharmacy program at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., i...

In early 2010, Emerson Hospital board members, medical staff and executive leaders convened to ad...

The project's goal was to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in trached and ...

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

In 2015, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation funded HRET to strengthen care transitions by crea...