Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This weekend kicks off a not-to-be-missed event for hospital and health system leaders: the AHA’s...

April is National Minority Health Month, dedicated to raising awareness about health disparities ...

In 2015, the geriatric and palliative care team at South Nassau Communities Hospital sponsored a ...

U.S. health care leaders are continually working to improve care processes while advancing a medi...

There is a critical need to elevate the discussion around workforce planning and development to e...

In response to a rapidly transforming health care environment, hospitals and health systems acros...

BackgroundIllinois Valley Community Hospital is a 49-bed, not-for-profit hospital located in Peru...

BackgroundMedStar Health is a not-for-profit health system in the Maryland and Washington, D.C., ...

Cortland Regional Medical Center’s Transitional Care Program is working to reduce 30-day readmiss...

All future performance improvement projects will address health care disparities. That’s the comm...

Hospitals and health systems are intensifying their focus to ensure all patients receive high-qua...

Hospitals are helping students with disabilities transition from school to the workplace. Mat-Su ...

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize recognizes leadership and innovation in quality improvem...

In 2016, Cleveland Clinic was honored by the American Hospital Association (AHA) with its Equity ...

According to the 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Stati...

The systemwide Obstetrics Care Excellence Team was formed to improve quality of care and reduce c...

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

Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...

The facility partnered with local emergency medical services (EMS) providers to improve early rec...

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

The hospital identified two process improvement opportunities related to medication safety effort...

Hospital readmissions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failu...

This project explains how a multisite, outpatient breast cancer and lymphedema rehabilitation pro...

The hospital began working on its sepsis initiative in January 2014, after root cause analysis sh...

This project was based on a multidisciplinary approach that focused on the admission process for ...

The goal was to reduce anesthesia's postoperative evaluation errors to less than 10 percent of al...

Surgical site infections (SSI) lead to patient suffering, morbidity and mortality, extended lengt...

Evidence-based practice supports early goal-directed therapy for patients with sepsis. Improving ...

The organization sought to create a root cause analysis (RCA) structure that endowed greater focu...

Troponin is a cardiac marker for acute myocardial infarction, making this lab test a key part of ...

Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...

Patient falls during hospitalization can lead to increased inpatient care costs, decreased patien...

The organization initiated a project identified by the Infection Control Committee to reduce Fole...

The neurosurgery service at this Level I trauma center had experienced high rates of surgical sit...

As identified in its 2014 Culture of Safety survey, the hospital’s overall mean score for the sta...

A history as a resource-challenged urban safety net hospital with a high-risk population, a lack ...

In 2013, the facility’s hospital-onset (HO) infection rate for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) ha...

A review of the hospital’s quality indicators revealed an unacceptable rate of catheter-associate...

Although episiotomy was once considered a routine part of childbirth, in recent years, there has ...

The ultimate goal for patients who are mechanically ventilated is to promptly and safely disconti...

The prevention of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs) is a major focus for health care orga...

By using evidence-based medicine and hardwiring concurrent review, HSHS St. Joseph's Hospital Hig...

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

Creating a quieter hospital environment can help the healing process and improve the patient expe...

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

April is National Minority Health Month. Led by the HHS Office of Minority Health, the 2016 event...

When outpatients at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, were frequently getting lost on their way to app...

Providence St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Montana, is working with community stakeholders, inc...

Citrus Valley Health Partners (CVHP) is a nonprofit comprehensive health care system based in Los...

Norwood Hospital is a full-service, 263-bed community hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts. In 2013...

Meritus Health’s replacement hospital, Meritus Medical Center, opened five years ago in Washingto...

Children’s Hospital Colorado launched a fun, hospital-wide hand hygiene challenge called “Germ Cr...

The premise of this project was that failure to maintain a patient's respect and dignity represen...

Approximately two years ago frontline staff presented a proposal to remove bed and chair alarms f...

Tufts Medical Center made a decision to create its own quality improvement training for its workf...

In 2012, a physician-led Pioneer accountable care organization recognized an opportunity to bette...

For patients, the transition between acute and post-acute care is rife with risk. Even with moder...

North Shore Medical Center aims to provide the perfect patient experience based on evidence-based...

The skilled nursing facility three-day waiver program is an exciting opportunity at Partners Heal...

Nighttime or off-shift intubations are a low-frequency, high-risk procedure in a community hospit...

North Shore Medical Center is dedicated to safely transitioning all emergency department patients...

This health care system's unique post-acute care (PAC) continuum of Inpatient Rehabilitation Faci...

Join more than 900 hospitals and health systems and 30 state and metropolitan hospital associatio...

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals that demonstrate progress in achieving ...

Kennedy Health Decreases Sepsis BackgroundKennedy Health is an integrated health delivery system...

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

This project aimed to reduce the OR turnover time for total joint cases. Baseline data showed it ...

Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...

Broadens view of care delivery from hospital-based practice to the entire bundle episode (30-days...

Nine in 10 adults in the community lacked the literacy skills to manage their health and prevent ...

Patient and family engagement is associated with fewer adverse events, lower health care costs, d...

Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...

An accurate home medication list serves as the "source of truth" for the entire process of medica...

The Bridge Model improves transitions of care by utilizing master’s-educated social workers in a ...

The work to advance health care equity is always evolving, always improving at Henry Ford Health ...