Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

In August 2010, the Center for Transforming Healthcare launched its fourth project which aims to ...

The 2012 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality award winners and finalists are highlighted in this webin...

One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...

Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...

This how-to guide describes the essentials elements of preventing obstetrical adverse events, inc...

"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...

Northwestern Memorial Hospital developed a comprehensive toolkit focused on the prevalence and im...

The Evaluation and Research on Antimicrobial Stewardship's Effect on Clostridium difficile (ERASE...

Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...

Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...

This audio program features current news and information from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Rese...

By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...

Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...

On the CUSP: Stop BSI and Stop CAUTI aim to eliminate central line associated bloodstream infecti...

The following information is a guide of infection prevention recommendations for outpatient (ambu...

This online education program has been developed by infection control experts from Joint Commissi...

Objective: Rates of venous thromboembolism as high as 58 percent have been reported after trauma,...

The Quality Transformation Network is a large and growing group of children's hospitals combining...

This multi-year NACHRI effort is focused on reducing CLABSI in the pediatric hematology/oncology ...

The Standardized Care to Improve Outcomes in Pediatric ESRD (SCOPE) Quality Collaborative helps d...

A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...

Patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure are more likely...

University Hospitals Case Medical Center has undergone a decade-long cultural transformation to a...

America’s hospitals are committed to protecting the health and well-being of all patients, especi...

This study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...

Drawing from data reported by the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Agency for Healthcare Research an...

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and the Health Care Improvement Foundation (HCIF) partn...

Pennsylvania facilities submitted 879 medication error reports from July 1, 2004, through January...

Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...

This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...

This discussion paper analyzes factors that attribute to  better outcomes at lower costs. The aut...

Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...

A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...

The goal of this program was to reduce the number of Foley catheter-associated urinary tract infe...

Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...

After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...

This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...

A central line-associated blood stream infection rate of 1.5 infections per 1,000 patient days wa...

Roseland Community Hospital joined the Illinois Foundation for Quality Healthcare, the quality im...

Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...

A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...

Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...

Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...

Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative asses...

Resurrection Medical Center had a percutaneous coronary intervention within 90 minutes compliance...