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Hospitals and health systems recognized for excellence in health care equity are sharing their wo...
Nurses have always been on the front lines at hospitals providing quality, compassionate care for...
March 12-18, 2017, is Patient Safety Awareness Week, led by the National Patient Safety Foundatio...
Quality and safety are “top of the agenda” at urban and rural hospitals across the country. At Ho...
Every aspect of a patient’s experience of care is influenced by valuable and often underused reso...
A health system in rural Minnesota has helped develop an innovative model to prevent prescription...
A “Germ Crusher” challenge at Children’s Hospital Colorado brought together leadership, staff, pa...
“Small changes can make a big difference.” So say health care professionals working to prevent ad...
Using HOUDINI to eliminate CAUTI. It’s all about decreasing the inappropriate use of indwelling c...
Hospitals and faith organizations are collaborating to improve health care outcomes and organize ...
State and regional hospital associations across the United States are recognizing hospitals and h...
One patient safety tool can be used in all care and service areas, improving safety and quality f...
St. Joseph Health, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a 208-bed hospital in Napa, California, is...
Mission accomplished, but the work continues. At Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in L...
Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...
Leadership, innovation and commitment to quality and safety—all are needed to deliver exceptional...
Each year more than one million patients in the United States are diagnosed with sepsis, a condit...
A unique telemedicine consultation between a rural hospital and skilled rehabilitation/nursing fa...
What does it take to be a winner? Children's Hospital Colorado received the 2015 AHA-McKesson Que...
Teamwork champions on a diverse change team: These were key as The MetroHealth System in Clevelan...
Each year, the Illinois Hospital Association recognizes and celebrates the achievements of Illino...
National attention to the issue of antibiotic stewardship is increasing. Drug-resistant bacteria ...
“Mobility is medicine,” say clinicians and volunteers working together to improve patient care at...
The only acceptable number of avoidable patient harms is zero. At Ponca City (Okla.) Medical Cent...
The AHA/HRET HEN project ended in December 2014, but quality improvement work continues at hospit...
Identifying solutions to reduce hospital-acquired conditions. Working to spread this knowledge to...
Preventing falls has been in the news recently, and with good reason: Among older adults, falls a...
Making incremental changes and collaborating with area hospitals and community organizations have...
Nearly 1,500 U.S. hospitals are working to eliminate patient harm and reduce hospital readmission...
Three Illinois hospitals received recognition for “delivering quality with distinction” by the Il...
It is estimated that 25 percent of falls by hospital patients are preventable. Saint Alphonsus Re...
Small tests of change can give hospitals momentum and show early progress in improvement projects...
Improving care after discharge translates to decreased readmissions. Marshall Medical Center, a 1...
The National Patient Safety Foundation leads Patient Safety Awareness Week in early March to prom...
Never underestimate the power of data. Hannibal (Mo.) Regional Hospital focused on collecting and...
Preventing hospital-acquired infections, reducing surgical complications and reducing readmission...
A “simple” complex plan is reducing readmissions at Wythe County Community Hospital, a 100-bed fa...
Eliminating hospital-acquired infections, preventing patient falls, reducing preventable readmiss...
Teamwork between infection control and environmental services professionals at Hunterdon Medical ...
Zero is an important number at Broward Health North. The 409-bed community hospital in Deerfield ...
It is both a sprint and a marathon.” That's how a team at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor,...
Only a small percentage of patients develop a health care-associated infection after surgery, and...
The aviation industry has successfully used checklists to ensure safe air travel for passengers a...
Think of all the instruments, equipment and furniture in a hospital operating room. Any of these ...
Improving discharge can reap multiple benefits for patients and providers, including reducing rea...
More than 64 million surgeries are performed annually in the United States. Preventing surgical s...
Ensuring the highest quality for patient care means continuously reviewing processes and outcomes...
Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typic...
Effective care transitions programs can do more than improve patient care: patients learn to mana...
Does your hospital huddle? Staff in the medical-surgical unit at Fairbanks (AK) Memorial Hospital...
Central line-associated bloodstream infections cause serious illness and death. Front-line caregi...