Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

During 2012, despite economic challenges, hospitals and health care systems throughout the United...

43,750: That’s the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates wo...

What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...

What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...

One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...

Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...

A just culture. A culture of transparency. A patient-first culture. Culture transformation at Uni...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...

Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...

Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...

By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...

Continuous. Quality. Improvement. To achieve that goal, Meriter Hospital, a 448-bed facility in M...

Compassionate and cost effective is how Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Fla., des...

Every four years, the Olympic Games recognize athletes on a quest to be the best in their chosen ...

Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...

Health care professionals at Henry Ford Health System know how to connect with teenagers. About 1...

Though more work needs to be done, our nation's hospitals are making advancements in providing qu...

Marking its 60th anniversary last year, Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, can count many accompli...

Small but mighty describes Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hosp...

E-mail, e-books, e-commerce. And now for patients, eVisits. At the University of Pittsburgh Medic...

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in American men, after skin cancer. According to...

Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Re...

Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Re...

It?s estimated that patients remember and understand about half of the information they receive f...

Occupying a five-block campus on Chicago's west side and serving an area that stretches about 15 ...

May 13-19 is National Women's Health Week, a project of the U.S. Health and Human Services' Offic...

May 13-19 is National Women's Health Week, a project of the U.S. Health and Human Services' Offic...

Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...

Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...

The rural community of Ellenville, New York (population 4,000), and the New York borough of Brook...

Communication breakdowns continue to be a leading cause of medical errors. Staff at Butler County...

For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...

For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...

For 18 years, Community House Calls, a UW Medicine program of Harborview Medical Center in Seattl...

For 18 years, Community House Calls, a UW Medicine program of Harborview Medical Center in Seattl...

Walk into an ER for treatment and walk out with a medical home. Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospit...

Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

Providing quality care for our tiniest patients, many hospitals are eliminating elective early te...

This statistic may surprise you: Mental health conditions and mood disorders including depression...

Wrong site surgeries are rare and difficult to study. But most health care organizations recogniz...

Improving quality of care can go hand in hand with eliminating disparities in care. University of...

Improving quality of care can go hand in hand with eliminating disparities in care. University of...

Teamwork benefits seniors, too. A partnership between Wishard Health Services?a large safety net ...

When Kaiser Permanente in California measured its incidence of pressure ulcers in patients three ...

Implementing quality improvement projects can improve patient safety and reduce inefficiency. But...