Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The work of a Washington D.C. collaborative of hospitals and FQHCs is benefiting the entire commu...

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

Homelessness is a hidden but real issue in Chittenden County, VT. University of Vermont Medical C...

A collaborative network of hospitals and community organizations is improving behavioral health c...

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

NYU Lutheran Healthcare, Brooklyn, N.Y., created a shared medical appointment program transformin...

This year's winners of Health Care's Most Wired Survey are employing information technology to he...

This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...

The AHA and the American Medical Association collaborated on this paper to present both physician...

This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, ...

It is estimated that 25 percent of falls by hospital patients are preventable. Saint Alphonsus Re...

A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...

A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...

Holy Cross Hospital could be characterized as an emergency department with critical care units. T...

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH577 Beds Cincinnati Children’s Hospit...

Griffin HospitalDerby, CT160 Beds Griffin Hospital is the flagship hospital for Planetree, Inc.,...

Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...

Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...

The rural community of Ellenville, New York (population 4,000), and the New York borough of Brook...

Walk into an ER for treatment and walk out with a medical home. Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospit...

Wrong site surgeries are rare and difficult to study. But most health care organizations recogniz...

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

Over the past eight years, an interdisciplinary team at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital prioritized...

A temporary reduction in pharmacy hours at Clifton Springs Hospital and Clinic contributed to med...

Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...

Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

Ellis Medicine started this project in April 2010 to reduce readmissions, as readmissions are cli...

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...

Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...

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

The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

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

Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...

Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...

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

The advent of computerized tomography (CT) has revolutionized diagnostic radiology. The use of CT...

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

Since The Joint Commission implemented the National Patient Safety Goal, "Reduction of the Likeli...

A strategy to use a single, integrated EMR has helped make Elliot Health System, based in Manches...

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

Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...

For expectant mothers at risk for childbirth complications, the OB assist team at Abington (Pa.) ...

ED bottlenecks are common problems in hospitals causing excessive wait times, decreasing patient ...

At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...

The Problem Advocate Christ Medical Center's space in the admittance bay area and resource usage...

The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...

The Problem When the performance improvement team began to take stock of the situation in Advoca...

The ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...

The Problem In 2004, Faxton Hospital and St. Luke's-Memorial Hospital merged. The leaders of the...

The Problem Good Samaritan's LWBS rate (2.1 percent) is close to the national average (2.0 perce...

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

The Problem Inapproprate inductions of labor, defined as elective iductions less than 39 weeks g...

The Problem According to a study published online by Health Affairs on January 15, 2008, the med...

The Problem Several processes used in the care of patients of Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical ...

The Problem In 2007, all 19 regional perinatal programs in New York began looking at the reducti...

The Problem The emergency department corrective action team began May 2, 2007 with the mission s...

The Problem With mechanical ventilation being a large part of care for critical patients, teh ne...

The Problem Bronson's patient safety committee appointed a task force to look at medication erro...

The Problem With the national average of hospital-acquired skin breakdown at 4.8 percent, Bronso...

The Problem Like many urban safety net hospitals, Hahnemann University Hospital struggled with o...

The Problem Carolina Medical Center-Mercy worked on patient throughput in its ED, while developi...