Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Nurses at Mercy Hospital of Buffalo, part of Catholic Health, introduced a Diabetes Education Qui...

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

After reducing health care-acquired deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary emboli (PE) in 2011,...

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...

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

The emergency department (ED) was experiencing extended lengths of stay for psychiatric patients,...

The organization used Lean Six Sigma process techniques to identify and support improved efficien...

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

The project focused on managing sepsis in the emergency department and in admitted patients, with...

Rates of inpatient medication errors range from 45 to 76 percent, with most errors occurring on-a...

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

One patient safety tool can be used in all care and service areas, improving safety and quality f...

A house wide effort was lead this year to teach and embed continuous improvement methodology and ...

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

Under the leadership of the Process Improvement (PI) Department, the organization has been drivin...

TEMPO: Together Everyone Improves Patient Outcomes, an initiative undertaken at Saint Vincent Hos...

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

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

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

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

The C. diff collaborative is an ongoing initiative that was developed to improve the early identi...

The Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence website highlights quality improvement stories at hundreds...

Teamwork champions on a diverse change team: These were key as The MetroHealth System in Clevelan...

Utilization of Evidence-Based Guidelines for Outcomes Improvements, 30-Day Readmissions and Morta...

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

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

Building successful partnerships with patients and families may be a key strategy in a hospital’s...

To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...

The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...

Ponca City Medical Center, a 140-bed facility in Ponca City, Oklahoma, used HEN best practices an...

Sanford Mayville Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Mayville, North Dakota, use...

Baystate Health, based in Springfield, Mass., has two formal mentorship programs available to its...

African immigrants and refugees represent four percent of the total population in the United Stat...

There is a need for greater understanding of the factors that lead to improved process quality an...

This case study describes a pilot program to find out the effect that integrative behavioral heal...

The Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Networks are designed to improve patient care ac...

Providing culturally competent care to patients requires a focus on more than just race, ethnicit...

At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients the...

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

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

The results from a 32-month long national collaborative, Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac...

This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.

Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...

University of Mississippi Medical CenterJackson, MS623 Beds The Problem University of Mississipp...

Children's Mercy Hospitals & ClinicsKansas City, MO265 Beds The Problem The patient population a...

This article discusses preliminary findings from the National Congress of American Indians Policy...

The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...

A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...

The guide is a resource for those interested or already engaged in quality improvement initiative...

This 46-page document reviews the history of Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives and consi...

Regional Health Improvement Collaborative provides a neutral, trusted mechanism through which all...