Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

Community health initiatives that start with small successes can lead to bigger changes. St. Cath...

Improving the health of communities where people live, work and play is more important than ever....

In 2008, the health system’s program to contact discharged emergency department (ED) and immediat...

Venous thromboembolism (VTE), defined as a deep vein thrombosis and/or pulmonary emboli, is linke...

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

A systematic, repeatable approach was developed to monitor pneumonia patients 30 days following d...

According to published research data, the majority of cardiac stent patients have no additional r...

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

For its excellent work addressing community health needs, Massachusetts General Hospital in Bosto...

Recognizing the need to build a just culture, the leadership team at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hos...

As the conventional analogy notes, change occurs when an organization finds itself atop a burning...

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

CDMHC’s innovative programs divert hundreds of patients from the hospitals and emergency departme...

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

  For more than two decades, health services researchers have been using statewide hospital disc...

The goal of this project was to reduce the amount of global office visits by using Lean Six Sigma...

The project catalyst noted inconsistencies in providing diagnosis-related, evidence-based interve...

Education that increases awareness is one of the best ways to transform health outcomes. But, as ...

The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...

The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...

The hospital implemented a new admissions nurse position in March 2014 to address the quality and...

The hospital implemented a new admissions nurse position in March 2014 to address the quality and...

The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...

The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

By focusing on preventive care and health promotion, hospitals are catalyzing change in their com...

This HPOE webinar, held with the Institute for Diversity, highlights Henry Ford Health System, wh...

Diversity has become a core value at U.S. hospitals. Meridian Health, a not-for-profit health car...

Making incremental changes and collaborating with area hospitals and community organizations have...

This guide is a synopsis of a conversation held at the Association for Healthcare Resource & Mate...

This toolkit helps community groups assess and develop action plans to create sustainable, commun...

This brief focuses on updating significant points concerning community health needs assessment an...

This toolkit helps track community partnerships, assess opportunities for increased engagement an...

Improving discharge can reap multiple benefits for patients and providers, including reducing rea...

Improving discharge can reap multiple benefits for patients and providers, including reducing rea...

Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...

The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Texas Health Institute developed a fr...

n 2008, Barnes-Jewish Hospital center for diversity and cultural competence developed an 18-hourc...

Transforming organizations, such as academic health centers or teaching hospitals, toward creatin...

Examples of and the rationale for strategies used to foster critical consciousness in the work of...

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

Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...

Emory HealthcareAtlanta, GA Emory Healthcare, a large academic teaching system, deployed a patie...

The move from volume- to value-based care has profound implications for those who design, build a...

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

A key objective of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's new reimbursement and payment...

Palliative care specializes in taking care of patients with serious illness and focuses on provid...

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

For the  last 15 years, public hospitals have pursued multiple strategies to help maintain financ...

Health care reform presents academic health centers with an opportunity to test new systems of ca...

At the 2012 American Public Health Association annual meeting, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation spo...

AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...

Accelerating Care Integration Lack of care coordination and integration was identified as a majo...

On April 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services  released a final regulation for the ne...

This commentary was written by  Daren R. Anderson, MD, vice president and chief quality officer, ...

Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...

This article discusses divergent concepts of population health between care delivery systems and ...

A multidisciplinary team was developed with objectives to provide clear, easy to understand educa...

Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...

This paper explores the current landscape of patient-centered medical home services for patients ...

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...

South Nassau Communities Hospital's goal for this initiative was to ensure rapid identification o...

St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester, division of Saint Joseph's Medical Center began this initiati...

Market forces are driving renewed interest in integration that may result in changes in the owner...

Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...

About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...

In many contexts, cesarean delivery has come to be regarded as the safer option, when in fact it ...

As the largest segment of the health care workforce, with more than 3 million professionals, nurs...

Success in strategic organizational initiatives depends on changing the way people work together.

CMS issued a final rule with comment period that updates payment policies and rates for physician...

In an effort to provide hospitals and health systems nationwide with guidance, Premier developed ...

Labor and delivery departments are busy places. At New York-Presbyterian, providing appropriate b...

Salt and a jar of pickles: That's what one HealthEast (St. Paul, Minn.) transition coach found in...