Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This weekend kicks off a not-to-be-missed event for hospital and health system leaders: the AHA’s...

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

Hospitals are helping students with disabilities transition from school to the workplace. Mat-Su ...

Bronchiolitis, one of the most costly and frequent medical diagnoses seen at the hospital, is a s...

The clinic throughput time was viewed as excessive and lacked standardized best practices. A new ...

Every aspect of a patient’s experience of care is influenced by valuable and often underused reso...

Mercy, a large Catholic health care system, began its telehealth initiatives with an eICU program...

In January 2015, Southern Illinois Healthcare, based in Carbondale, was awarded an 18-month USDA ...

Funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Serv...

When outpatients at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, were frequently getting lost on their way to app...

This HPOE guide, a collaboration with the American Society for Healthcare Engineering, explores w...

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

Leadership, innovation and commitment to quality and safety—all are needed to deliver exceptional...

The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

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

In early 2011, AHA members, committees, regional policy boards and staff discussed and crafted a ...

The concept of the Triple Aim is  widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...

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

Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...

The feeling of being truly cared for leaves a lasting impression and aids in the healing process....

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

Human resources and the nursing leadership team worked together using a PDCA for rapid cycle impr...

Teams of individuals who communicate effectively dramatically reduce the consequences of human er...

A Safe Patient Handling program (SPH) was initiated in 2006. A SPH vendor was chosen based upon e...

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

Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...

Avista Adventist Hospital, a 114-bed facility in Louisville, Colorado, used best practices and pe...

Baxter Regional Medical Center, a 268-bed facility in Mountain Home, Arkansas, used best practice...

Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, a 237-bed facility in Orlando, Florida, used best practices and peer-to...

Garfield Medical Center, a 210-bed facility in Monterey, California, used best practices and peer...

Hospital Menonita de Aibonito, a 150-bed facility in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, used best practices a...

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 ...

Midstate Medical Center, a 134-bed facility in Meriden, Connecticut, committed to reducing harm a...

NCH Healthcare System, a 325-bed facility in Naples, Florida, started its journey to reduce harm ...

Ponca City Medical Center, a 140-bed facility in Ponca City, Oklahoma, used HEN best practices an...

Presence Saint Joseph Hospital, a 184-bed facility in Elgin, Illinois, examined quality metrics t...

Sanford Mayville Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Mayville, North Dakota, use...

St. Catherine Hospital, a 189-bed facility in East Chicago, Indiana, used best practices and peer...

St. John's Hospital, a 431-bed facility in Springfield, Illinois, used best practices and peer-to...

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

Yuma Regional Medical Center, a 406-bed facility in Yuma, Arizona, used best practices and peer-t...

Excellent patient-centered care is the goal of a program implemented by the team at McDonough Dis...

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

Three Illinois hospitals received recognition for “delivering quality with distinction” by the Il...

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

Providing world-class quality health care may seem an audacious goal for a small or rural hospita...

Four generations are working side by side in hospitals and care systems today. Atlantic Health Sy...

The 2014 AHA Chair-elect Jonathan  Perlin, MD, co-authored this paper and companion financial mod...

Generational differences—one factor of diversity—are changing workforce dynamics. Traditionalists...

Never underestimate the power of data. Hannibal (Mo.) Regional Hospital focused on collecting and...

This report discusses the importance of health in all policies, an approach to improving health b...

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

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

Think of all the instruments, equipment and furniture in a hospital operating room. Any of these ...

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

The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...

The University of Michigan Health System used lean management and the plan-do-check-act cycle to ...

According to the Pew research center,  74 percent of all adults in the United States use the Inte...

The University of Connecticut's community-based education program collaborated with community par...

Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...

In 2012 the AHA Committee on Research focused on actively engaging health care users to improve o...

In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...

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

Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

A just culture. A culture of transparency. A patient-first culture. Culture transformation at Uni...

AHVRP, a professional membership group of the AHA,  is the premier professional membership societ...

The American Organization of Nurse Executives is the national organization of nurses who design, ...

Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...

The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...

Although primary care is expected to be  safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, an...

There is widespread agreement that the current fee-for-service approach to paying for health care...

Mayo Clinic has four operating unites to create new tools, processes and businesses. The Division...

Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...

This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.