Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

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 ...

Bassett Medical Center, a 180-bed hospital in Cooperstown, New York, has implemented and sustaine...

Clark Regional Medical Center (CRMC) is a 79 bed, community hospital serving the residents of eas...

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...

The link between excessive work hours and adverse errors is inseparable. This project investigate...

The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...

Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in...

The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...

The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...

Perineal trauma during childbirth can lead to significant short- or long-term complications such ...

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...

Lexington Regional Health Center, a 25-bed facility in Lexington, Nebraska, used best practices a...

Los Alamitos Medical Center, a 167-bed facility in Los Alamitos, California, used best practices ...

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...

UConn John Dempsey Hospital, a 174-bed facility in Farmington, Connecticut, used best practices a...

Identifying solutions to reduce hospital-acquired conditions. Working to spread this knowledge to...

Although rare and difficult to study, wrong-site surgery is a serious risk recognized by health c...

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

At North Shore-LIJ Health System, teamwork is everywhere. This New York health system uses TeamST...

Research shows that when patients are engaged in their health care, it can lead to measurable imp...

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

This report from the Department of Health and Human Services describes a plan to bolster implemen...

The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...

Approximately 24 million people--8.5 percent of the U.S. population--are defined as having Limite...

The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...

Does your hospital huddle? Staff in the medical-surgical unit at Fairbanks (AK) Memorial Hospital...

Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...

Sandy Hausman reports on the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, a Commonwealth Fund-supported de...

The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...

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

Early elective deliveries have been proven to increase the risk of adverse health outcomes post d...

Alice Hyde Medical Center's new program is designed to ensure safe medication administration in t...

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...

In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conduc...

In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...

The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions designed to encourage greater coordination an...

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

The new Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide released by WHO Patient Safety in Octo...

Could changing the staffing model in the intensive care unit reduce patients' risk of dying?Accor...

The Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals.

March 6-12 is designated as National Patient Safety Awareness Week...and we know that America's h...

The Problem Adverse drug events occur in as many as 10 percent of hospitalized patients, with th...