Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

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

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...

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

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

The goal was to reduce anesthesia's postoperative evaluation errors to less than 10 percent of al...

The emergency department (ED) was experiencing extended lengths of stay for psychiatric patients,...

The organization used Lean Six Sigma process techniques to identify and support improved efficien...

The organization initiated a project identified by the Infection Control Committee to reduce Fole...

The project focused on managing sepsis in the emergency department and in admitted patients, with...

A local urology department partnered with the performance improvement department to identify oppo...

Undergoing surgery of any kind can be a stressful experience for patients and their families. The...

Outpatient registration at OSF Center for Health required patients to stand in line for extended ...

Norwood Hospital is a full-service, 263-bed community hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts. In 2013...

A house wide effort was lead this year to teach and embed continuous improvement methodology and ...

Tufts Medical Center made a decision to create its own quality improvement training for its workf...

Under the leadership of the Process Improvement (PI) Department, the organization has been drivin...

TEMPO: Together Everyone Improves Patient Outcomes, an initiative undertaken at Saint Vincent Hos...

Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Physician’s Organization implem...

This project aimed to reduce the OR turnover time for total joint cases. Baseline data showed it ...

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

The C. diff collaborative is an ongoing initiative that was developed to improve the early identi...

During the 2013-14 influenza season, an emergency preparedness mass influenza vaccination drill w...

Utilization of Evidence-Based Guidelines for Outcomes Improvements, 30-Day Readmissions and Morta...

Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

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

After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...

Medical center evidence pointed to a delay in surgery beyond 48 hours for hip fracture patients a...

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

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

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

St. John's implemented a web-based business intelligence platform that integrates physician quali...

The hospital recognized an urgent need to improve the current rate of colorectal cancer screening...

Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...

The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...

This quality project evaluated the impact of translating evidence based CLABSI practice from the ...

Children with cystic fibrosis have better lung function and survival rates if their body mass ind...

Ponca City Medical Center, a 140-bed facility in Ponca City, Oklahoma, used HEN best practices an...

Sanford Mayville Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Mayville, North Dakota, use...

Baystate Health, based in Springfield, Mass., has two formal mentorship programs available to its...

African immigrants and refugees represent four percent of the total population in the United Stat...

This case study describes a pilot program to find out the effect that integrative behavioral heal...

Goal-Reduce and prevent medical errors by adopting best practices and procedures. The Patient Sa...

On the Cusp Initiative GoalReduce the occurrence of two frequent hospital-acquired infections—ur...

Newark Department of Child and Family Well-BeingNewark NJ The Problem In 2003, The Newark (N.J.)...

Concord (N.H.) Hospital • 230-bed regional medical center • 17,194 admissions • 295 medical staff...