Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

43,750: That’s the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates wo...

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

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

Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...

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

The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...

Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital's quality management team, led by the outcomes manager, part...

The fall intervention program identified areas needing improvement including a lack of multidisci...

Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...

Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

Continuum Health Partners'  pay-for performance program (P4P) is designed to partner with physici...

Anticoagulants have been identified as one of the top five medication classes associated with pat...

As the new operations manager of Delaware Valley Hospital's primary care centers began her assess...

Good Samaritan Hospital's Clinical Transformation Team guided the formation of a Ventilator-Assoc...

An unprecedented cluster of infant falls from post-cesarean section mothers' arms sparked the mat...

Health Quest uses and benefits from a system wide root cause analysis policy to address adverse a...

Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...

Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...

When Kaiser Permanente in California measured its incidence of pressure ulcers in patients three ...

Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

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