Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

A complete list of every HPOE/HRET guide created since 2010. This list features nearly 80 guides ...

Every aspect of a patient’s experience of care is influenced by valuable and often underused reso...

A key component to making patient care safer is to track your data and progress towards improveme...

State and regional hospital associations across the United States are recognizing hospitals and h...

Bassett Medical Center, a 180-bed hospital in Cooperstown, New York, has implemented and sustaine...

Clark Regional Medical Center (CRMC) is a 79 bed, community hospital serving the residents of eas...

One patient safety tool can be used in all care and service areas, improving safety and quality f...

The Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) developed this compendium to link patient and fami...

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

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

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: ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The only acceptable number of avoidable patient harms is zero. At Ponca City (Okla.) Medical Cent...

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

The culture of an organization can actively support the commitment of its workforce by providing ...

Each year, the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement takes an in-depth look at a single topic ...

Transforming organizations, such as academic health centers or teaching hospitals, toward creatin...

Good patient/provider communication correlates with greater patient satisfaction, increased patie...

The Red Box strategy was created to help reduce cost and health care worker time associated with ...

Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...

Every four years, the Olympic Games recognize athletes on a quest to be the best in their chosen ...

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

The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...

In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...

St. Mary's Healthcare has an obligation to protect patients from harm and preventing adverse effe...

In 2006, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation declared a bold vision for patient safety...

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

In November 2009, a group of 12 representatives from various areas within Rochester General Healt...

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

Hospital IT departments are facing what one executive calls a "tsunami of activities, expectation...

This paper explores the current limits of primary care in the US, looks at illustrative models th...

A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...

According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...

Just three years ago, Mississippi Baptist Medical Center faced falling quality indicators, staff ...

The report provides: Background on health and wellness programs and how they are incentivized ...

At the AHA/Health Forum Leadership Summit in July, David Pryor, M.D., chief medical officer for S...

For many hospitals, the road to improved quality often begins with transparency, where unexpected...

Even best practices need fine-tuning. When the critical care team at Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta, ...

A report based on an invitational forum held on March 13, 2009, sponsored by Medically Induced Tr...

The Problem Progress West didn't so much have a problem but an opportunity. By opening a new hos...