Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Troponin is a cardiac marker for acute myocardial infarction, making this lab test a key part of ...

Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...

A history as a resource-challenged urban safety net hospital with a high-risk population, a lack ...

Although episiotomy was once considered a routine part of childbirth, in recent years, there has ...

The prevention of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs) is a major focus for health care orga...

Norwood Hospital is a full-service, 263-bed community hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts. In 2013...

Children’s Hospital Colorado launched a fun, hospital-wide hand hygiene challenge called “Germ Cr...

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

Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...

Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, a 237-bed facility in Orlando, Florida, used best practices and peer-to...

Hospital Menonita de Aibonito, a 150-bed facility in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, used best practices a...

Presence Saint Joseph Hospital, a 184-bed facility in Elgin, Illinois, examined quality metrics t...

St. Catherine Hospital, a 189-bed facility in East Chicago, Indiana, used best practices and peer...

St. John's Hospital, a 431-bed facility in Springfield, Illinois, used best practices and peer-to...

UConn John Dempsey Hospital, a 174-bed facility in Farmington, Connecticut, used best practices a...

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

Ryhov HospitalJönköping, Sweden Ryhov Hospital is a county hospital in Jönköping, Sweden, with a...

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

Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...

Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...

Rob Olson, MD, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Bellingham, Wash., sold his solo practice when he ...

The Kishwaukee Community Hospital nurses and physicians recognized the opportunity to improve car...

The aim of this project was to reduce the number of Venous Thromboembolisms acquired during hospi...

Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...

This toolkit is designed to help your hospital understand the Quality Indicators from AHRQ, and s...

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

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

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...

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

About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...

Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...

This certified CME/CE activity focuses on caring for patients with chronic pain in the hospital ...

Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...

The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...

The Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals.

This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...