Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals that demonstrate progress in achieving ...

Mission accomplished, but the work continues. At Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in L...

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals that demonstrate progress in achieving ...

Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...

TeamSTEPPS is designed to improve patient safety through effective communication and teamwork ski...

Leadership, innovation and commitment to quality and safety—all are needed to deliver exceptional...

Each year more than one million patients in the United States are diagnosed with sepsis, a condit...

Kennedy Health Decreases Sepsis BackgroundKennedy Health is an integrated health delivery system...

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

Evidence-based guidelines now support restrictive red blood cell transfusion practices to enhance...

Failure to rescue is the failure to recognize or act upon the patient's decline in condition resu...

In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...

This AHRQ video vignette  illustrates how to engage dialysis patients in infection prevention....

A unique telemedicine consultation between a rural hospital and skilled rehabilitation/nursing fa...

The link between excessive work hours and adverse errors is inseparable. This project investigate...

Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...

The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...

Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...

 White Plains (N.Y.) Hospital Center’s interdisciplinary team developed a disinfection procedure ...

What does it take to be a winner? Children's Hospital Colorado received the 2015 AHA-McKesson Que...

Teamwork champions on a diverse change team: These were key as The MetroHealth System in Clevelan...

Read about how patient and family engagement practices are related to patient experiences. This s...

The Heathcare Association of New York State announced its 2015 Community Health Improvement award...

This infographic provides a summary of the HPOE guide “Partnering to Improve Quality and Safety: ...

This New York Times blog was written by a resident in internal medicine at Massachusetts General ...

The concept of the Triple Aim is  widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

Each year, the Illinois Hospital Association recognizes and celebrates the achievements of Illino...

Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in...

The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...

Within the organization over the last year, a new division of four hospitals was created, with th...

The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...

Within the organization over the last year, a new division of four hospitals was created, with th...

In December 2008, the hospital spotlighted national Hospital Quality Measures performance and fou...

Maternal cardiac arrest is rare but often fatal. Obstetricians and perinatal nurses are often fir...

The pediatric team at this hospital recognized the need to improve processes surrounding care of ...

The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

In 2009, a multi-pronged approach involving all stakeholders was launched aimed at early identifi...

The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...

July 2009-October 2011 baseline data for the blood culture contamination rate in the ED showed it...

The ER blood culture contamination rate remained above the national target even after implementin...

The decision was made to proceed with efforts to eliminate elective deliveries prior to 39 weeks ...

...and therefore decrease the hospital’s financial risk as part of health care reform, increase c...

A patient's home environment or lack of support system can have a negative impact on their health...

National attention to the issue of antibiotic stewardship is increasing. Drug-resistant bacteria ...

Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...

The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...

To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...

SMH was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative designed to improve quality, effi...