Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Among California's African American, Native American, Latino and Hmong populations, a diagnosis o...

The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...

Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...

The Florida Hospital Association is proud to recognize the 2012 Celebration of Achievement in Qua...

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

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...

UNC Hospitals is committed to providing a patient-centered care environment. A team of leaders is...

A strong collaboration among senior leadership, governance and the medical staff at Meriter Hospi...

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

Partner's created the Center for Connected Health to promote technology-enabled innovations in te...

Kaiser maintains a number of operating units to identify and test innovations. The Center for Tot...

Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...

This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...

Although Maryland enjoys the third highest median income in the United States, the state suffers ...

Among the agencies that have made a substantial effort toward competency is the Nursing Home Ombu...

Fairfield Memorial Hospital identified the need to improve the patient experience in the emergenc...

As part of Franciscan St. James Health's commitment to improve the surgery processes, the hospita...

Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...

A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...

The goal of this program was to reduce the number of Foley catheter-associated urinary tract infe...

Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...

After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...

The Kishwaukee Community Hospital nurses and physicians recognized the opportunity to improve car...

This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...

A central line-associated blood stream infection rate of 1.5 infections per 1,000 patient days wa...

Rush-Copley Medical Center collaborated with the Kane County Health Department after an outbreak ...

Roseland Community Hospital joined the Illinois Foundation for Quality Healthcare, the quality im...

Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...

A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...

Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...

Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...

A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...

This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...

At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...

Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...

A multidisciplinary team was developed with objectives to provide clear, easy to understand educa...

Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative asses...

Obstructive sleep apnea is an often unrecognized contributing cause for respiratory failure in ho...

The OSF cardiac service line implemented a STEMI Improvement project to identify obstacles that c...

Resurrection Medical Center had a percutaneous coronary intervention within 90 minutes compliance...

Using Plan-Do-Study-Act, this initiative prioritized utilization of spirometry as the standard di...

Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...

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

Shortcomings in the treatment for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock were observed. An ...

The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...

The reduction of HAPU has been a focus for 10 years at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center. Over tha...

Quarterly surveys revealed elevated hospital-acquired pressure ulcer rates unchanged by previous ...

A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...