Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Schuyler Hospital’s Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Schuyler initiative offers various opport...

Montefiore Medical Center’s goal was to increase access and supply of healthy food and beverage o...

To better serve its patients and reduce the effects of ineffective pain management, Mercy Hospita...

Washington Heights, a community impacted by 770 cases of domestic violence a day, now has the Fam...

Maimonides Medical Center implemented four evidence-based practices using the Plan, Do, Study, Ac...

The disease management process at Bassett Medical Center was positively impacted after the hospit...

Nurses at Mercy Hospital of Buffalo, part of Catholic Health, introduced a Diabetes Education Qui...

As many older patients are affected by Clostridium difficile (C.diff) in hospital settings, South...

In 2015, the geriatric and palliative care team at South Nassau Communities Hospital sponsored a ...

Stony Brook University Hospital coordinated efforts with its emergency department and ambulatory ...

Serious dental problems can affect the overall well-being of an individual. Therefore, Mount St. ...

Like many hospitals, SBH Health System uses the computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system. ...

BackgroundHenry Ford Health System is a not-for-profit corporation composed of hospitals, medical...

BackgroundIllinois Valley Community Hospital is a 49-bed, not-for-profit hospital located in Peru...

BackgroundMedStar Health is a not-for-profit health system in the Maryland and Washington, D.C., ...

BackgroundMultiCare Health System is a not-for-profit health care organization based in Tacoma, W...

BackgroundOchsner Health System in southeast Louisiana manages 13 hospitals and more than 40 heal...

To help reduce 30-day readmission rates, South Nassau Communities Hospital implemented “Right Car...

SBH Health System implemented numerous strategies to reduce the number of Cather-Associated Urina...

Cortland Regional Medical Center’s Transitional Care Program is working to reduce 30-day readmiss...

After recognizing asthma as a major condition for many patients in the emergency department, St. ...

Adirondack Health is working with multiple sectors of the community, such as the Franklin County ...

MedEx Bedside Prescription Delivery is the very first bedside medication delivery service for hos...

In July 2016, the AHA/HRET Hospital Engagement Network (HEN) 2.0 hosted a state hospital associat...

The AHA/HRET Hospital Engagement Network (HEN) 2.0 identifies best practices proven to reduce hos...

Since 2012, the Aiming for Zero program at Northwell Hospital is continuously working to reduce C...

Northern Westchester Hospital is improving their patients’ experience through the Food Is Care pr...

The St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center created a Hypoglycemic Task Force to recognize and decrea...

The best way to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) is to limit the use ...

Reducing and eliminating patient harm are at the forefront of patient safety and continue to be a...

According to the 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Stati...

At a 350 bed community teaching hospital, potentially preventive readmissions data from the Illin...

This project addresses the health care system's strategic initiative to ensure interdisciplinary ...

The hospital identified an opportunity to improve its discharge planning process to allow more ti...

Bronchiolitis, one of the most costly and frequent medical diagnoses seen at the hospital, is a s...

After reducing health care-acquired deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary emboli (PE) in 2011,...

Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...

In response to high readmission rates coming from the health system’s skilled nursing facility (S...

This health system's employee influenza vaccination policy compliance rate was less than 70 perce...

Restraint documentation was a challenge at the hospital for multiple reasons, including the imple...

In 2008, the health system’s program to contact discharged emergency department (ED) and immediat...

The facility partnered with local emergency medical services (EMS) providers to improve early rec...

Chronic wounds are a growing problem in the United States. Based on evidence-based research of re...

While the implementation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ venous thromboembolism ...

Because the medical center’s lost charge capture related to IV injection and infusions totaled $8...

The problem faced by the health system was the lack of a coordinated approach for the review and ...

The hospital identified two process improvement opportunities related to medication safety effort...

Concurrent review of three core measure sets has ensured appropriate and timely patient care. The...

Hospital readmissions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failu...

This project explains how a multisite, outpatient breast cancer and lymphedema rehabilitation pro...