Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Mission accomplished, but the work continues. At Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in L...

Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...

Noting an upward trend in central line-associated blood stream infections, the hospital joined th...

This quality project evaluated the impact of translating evidence based CLABSI practice from the ...

For six months, Brandywine Hospital has not had one central line-associated bloodstream infection...

On the Cusp Initiative GoalReduce the occurrence of two frequent hospital-acquired infections—ur...

There were between 462,000 and 636,000 CLABSIs in nonneonatal critical care patients in the Unite...

Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...

The medical center’s mission was to reduce the C. difficile rate from 26.7 cases per 10,000 patie...

In August 2010, the Center for Transforming Healthcare launched its fourth project which aims to ...

Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...

The Evaluation and Research on Antimicrobial Stewardship's Effect on Clostridium difficile (ERASE...

Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...

The following information is a guide of infection prevention recommendations for outpatient (ambu...

This online education program has been developed by infection control experts from Joint Commissi...

This multi-year NACHRI effort is focused on reducing CLABSI in the pediatric hematology/oncology ...

The Standardized Care to Improve Outcomes in Pediatric ESRD (SCOPE) Quality Collaborative helps d...

A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...

Roseland Community Hospital joined the Illinois Foundation for Quality Healthcare, the quality im...

Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...

Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...

Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...

In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/s...

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement estimates that 48 percent of intensive care unit patient...

In 2005, North Shore University Hospital's president and chief executive officer made a commitmen...

NuHealth Nassau University Medical Center identified central line-associated blood stream infecti...

Outside the intensive care unit, catheters remain in place for a longer duration; therefore, it i...

Rochester General Hospital formed a multidisciplinary team to develop and implement actions that ...

Rochester General Hospital's infection prevention team partnered with the surgical intensive care...

Preventing health care-associated infections is a critical step in reducing morbidity and mortali...

Stony Brook University Medical Center joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvement critical ca...

John Combes, M.D., president of the Center for Healthcare Governance, talks to H&HN Senior Online...

2011 Guidelines

The Problem Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is one of the most dangerous antibiotic-resistant ba...

Health care acquired infections in U.S. hospitals account for 1.7 million infections and 99,000 a...

Th e P roblemUrinary tract infections are the most common hospital-acquired infection with 80 per...

The Problem The Pitt Country Memorial Hospital leadership team decided to reduce surgical compli...

The long-term care provider decided to tackle C. diff infections. Illness from C. diff commonly a...

The Problem In 2007, the Keystone Center for Patient Safety and Quality partnered with the Michi...