Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The Chairman’s File columns provide just a glimpse of the excellent work that our nation’s hospit...

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

More and more hospitals and health systems are leading community collaborations to create positiv...

In this study, the research team sought to compare the performance of provider-sponsored health p...

Join more than 900 hospitals and health systems and 30 state and metropolitan hospital associatio...

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

TeamSTEPPS is designed to improve patient safety through effective communication and teamwork ski...

The Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina is an unprecedented volunteer collaboration of more t...

This case study presents the story of CareSouth Carolina and the Northeastern Rural Health Networ...

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

This HPOE webinar highlights innovations for eliminating health care disparities and will feature...

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

Utilizing Six Sigma's DMAIC model, this project looked at ways to decrease errors in the document...

Patient safety is the number one priority at this facility. After discussing medication errors at...

Failure to rescue is the failure to recognize or act upon the patient's decline in condition resu...

In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...

It is certain that health status is profoundly influenced by the places in which people live, wor...

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

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

An accurate home medication list serves as the "source of truth" for the entire process of medica...

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

North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System opened a facility to treet heavioral health and prim...

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

Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...

Hypertension—the silent killer—impacts more than one in three Americans and is a leading cause of...

As hospitals expand their focus on providing equitable care, attention on those who are lesbian, ...

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

The work to advance health care equity is always evolving, always improving at Henry Ford Health ...

This infographic provides a summary of the HPOE guide “Partnering to Improve Quality and Safety: ...

This New York Times blog was written by a resident in internal medicine at Massachusetts General ...

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

Working with community organizations, including competitors, Palmetto Health is improving the hea...

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

During the 2013-14 influenza season, an emergency preparedness mass influenza vaccination drill w...

The Healthy You program was designed to enhance whole person health of the hospital's team member...

Patients are often poorly prepared to manage acute and chronic conditions following their dischar...

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

Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...

During FY2014, the surgical site infections rate at this academic medical center increased to 21....

Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

GOAL: Eliminate early elective deliveries This case study is part of the Illinois Hospital Associ...

Within the organization over the last year, a new division of four hospitals was created, with th...

The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...

During FY2014, the surgical site infections rate at this academic medical center increased to 21....

Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

GOAL: Eliminate early elective deliveries

Within the organization over the last year, a new division of four hospitals was created, with th...

The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...

Antibiotic stewardship was implemented in 2011 and focuses on five "D's": Drug, De-escalation of ...

The goal was to reduce the delay in patient care by reducing patient wait times, both from reques...

The pediatric team at this hospital recognized the need to improve processes surrounding care of ...

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

Reduction in the use of fluoroquinolones is an important intervention for antimicrobial stewardsh...

After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...

National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

This toolkit has tips on  Selecting Patients and Families to Serve as Advisors Preparation fo...

This blog post is from H&HN, the journal of the American Hospital Association and was written by ...

A performance improvement project was initiated to reduce the number of elective inductions and c...

The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...

July 2009-October 2011 baseline data for the blood culture contamination rate in the ED showed it...

The decision was made to proceed with efforts to eliminate elective deliveries prior to 39 weeks ...

The Respiratory Protection Webkit includes a 10-module Respiratory Protection Course and accompan...

A patient's home environment or lack of support system can have a negative impact on their health...

When River Hospital, Alexandria Bay, N.Y., identified an unmet mental health need for active duty...

As part of Blueprint for Health (a statewide, public-private initiative authorized by the Vermont...

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

There are opportunities around the country for dramatic innovation in the way health systems tran...

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

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and CVS Health will colaborate to put lifesaving...

To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...

SMH was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative designed to improve quality, effi...

The Institute for Diversity in Health Management, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, works close...

A multidisciplinary committee found that despite an overall sepsis mortality rate similar to expe...

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

Patient engagement is paramount to reducing readmissions and improving quality of life. That’s wh...