Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

The clinic throughput time was viewed as excessive and lacked standardized best practices. A new ...

Mercy, a large Catholic health care system, began its telehealth initiatives with an eICU program...

In January 2015, Southern Illinois Healthcare, based in Carbondale, was awarded an 18-month USDA ...

Funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Serv...

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

Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...

The feeling of being truly cared for leaves a lasting impression and aids in the healing process....

Human resources and the nursing leadership team worked together using a PDCA for rapid cycle impr...

A Safe Patient Handling program (SPH) was initiated in 2006. A SPH vendor was chosen based upon e...

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

Avista Adventist Hospital, a 114-bed facility in Louisville, Colorado, used best practices and pe...

Baxter Regional Medical Center, a 268-bed facility in Mountain Home, Arkansas, used best practice...

Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, a 237-bed facility in Orlando, Florida, used best practices and peer-to...

Garfield Medical Center, a 210-bed facility in Monterey, California, used best practices and peer...

Hospital Menonita de Aibonito, a 150-bed facility in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, used best practices a...

Lexington Regional Health Center, a 25-bed facility in Lexington, Nebraska, used best practices a...

Los Alamitos Medical Center, a 167-bed facility in Los Alamitos, California, used best practices ...

Midstate Medical Center, a 134-bed facility in Meriden, Connecticut, committed to reducing harm a...

NCH Healthcare System, a 325-bed facility in Naples, Florida, started its journey to reduce harm ...

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

Presence Saint Joseph Hospital, a 184-bed facility in Elgin, Illinois, examined quality metrics t...

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

St. Catherine Hospital, a 189-bed facility in East Chicago, Indiana, used best practices and peer...

St. John's Hospital, a 431-bed facility in Springfield, Illinois, used best practices and peer-to...

UConn John Dempsey Hospital, a 174-bed facility in Farmington, Connecticut, used best practices a...

Yuma Regional Medical Center, a 406-bed facility in Yuma, Arizona, used best practices and peer-t...

Excellent patient-centered care is the goal of a program implemented by the team at McDonough Dis...

Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...

The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...

The University of Michigan Health System used lean management and the plan-do-check-act cycle to ...

According to the Pew research center,  74 percent of all adults in the United States use the Inte...

The University of Connecticut's community-based education program collaborated with community par...

Mayo Clinic has four operating unites to create new tools, processes and businesses. The Division...

Multidisciplinary rounding (MDR) is a model of care in which multiple members of the care deliver...

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...

San Mateo Medical Center San Mateo, CA307 Beds The Problem San Mateo Medical Center has collecte...

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

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

The SUNY Downsstate Medical Center kidney transplant team identified an increase in the differenc...

The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...

The Problem In 2004, Faxton Hospital and St. Luke's-Memorial Hospital merged. The leaders of the...

The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...

The Problem Communication is listed as the leading factor in the root causes of sentinel events ...

The Problem The women and infants department's lean journey began in early 2006 when a local hos...

The Problem Nurses have always stuggled with balancing time between their workloads. Employee sa...

The Franciscan Clinic was designed with the idea that all employees who carry the hospital's insu...