Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

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

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

The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...

The Reducing Readmissions: Making Data Real project decreased acute rehospitalization rates by al...

The hospital’s venous thromboembolism (VTE) rate for total joint patients was 36.2 in 2011 and 37...

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

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

For several years, the hospital has been focused on reducing 30-day readmissions. After learning ...

Advance care planning is a critical element of wellness for all adult patients, regardless of dia...

Readmissions are a burden for patients, families and health care providers. HSHS St. Joseph's Hos...

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

Limited provider appointment availability in the clinic was causing delays for patients seeking c...

Overutilizing blood transfusions adds significant costs and can increase patient length of stay a...

This project involves raising awareness and expanding the palliative care program at HSHS St. Joh...

Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...

The goal of this quality improvement project was to reduce the length of hospitalization, to impr...

The Coachella Valley is a region in Southern California with an incredibly high rate of HIV. Base...

An integrated health system headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Avera Health serves patie...

Based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Gundersen Health System is an integrated tertiary referral center ...

Throughout the country, primary care is faced with ongoing waves of healthcare reform (e.g. Accou...

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

Mercy Medical Center committed to delivering the highest quality care with the greatest efficienc...

As part of the efforts to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognize...

As part of an effort to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognized ...

Many patients who find themselves in a situation where they are experiencing worsening symptoms o...

For the past 30 years, the Healthcare for the Homeless Program has addressed the health needs of ...

The Integrated Care Management Program is a care manager collaborative created to ensure a smooth...

MOU—Mobile Observation Unit—provides home-based urgent care for patients experiencing at-risk med...

North Shore University Hospital’s palliative care unit emphasizes quality of life by providing pa...

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

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

The medical center consistently missed internal quality targets, with a mean HAPU rate for 2007-2...

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

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

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...

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

Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...

An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

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

Kishwaukee Hospital, DeKalb, Ill., created a total knee and hip joint replacement center of excel...

Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...

Lean Six Sigma tools were used to reduce pressure ulcers at Memorial Health System, Springfield, ...

Saint Anthony Health Center, Alton, Ill., took a hard look at data from its cancer program and fo...

Pekin (Ill.) Hospital used plan-do-study-act with evidence-based practice research, guidelines re...

Many Medicare patients with life-limiting illnesses had no documented advanced directive while in...

A gap analysis was conducted. Key themes emerged in this analysis such as inadequate preparation ...

All practices participating in Better Health Greater Cleveland collect and submit data on patient...