Nurses have always been on the front lines at hospitals providing quality, compassionate care for...

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A complete list of every HPOE/HRET guide created since 2010. This list features nearly 80 guides ...

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Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...

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Turnaround time for immunohistochemistry (IHC) stains in the laboratory of a 500 bed tertiary car...

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The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...

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Operational and physician leaders identified an opportunity to decrease the use of off-site telem...

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The organization used both discrete event and live simulation methodologies to ensure the smooth ...

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The emergency department (ED) was experiencing an increase in door-to-doctor times due to high pa...

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Boarding patients in the emergency department (ED) is detrimental to patient care, and evidence s...

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Outpatient registration at OSF Center for Health required patients to stand in line for extended ...

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A vigorous approach to quality improvement at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Ill., is ac...

August 1st, 2016
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Mission accomplished, but the work continues. At Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in L...

December 14th, 2015

Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...

November 23rd, 2015
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The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

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The Heathcare Association of New York State announced its 2015 Community Health Improvement award...

July 21st, 2015

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

July 6th, 2015
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The concept of the Triple Aim is  widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...

July 1st, 2015
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This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

July 1st, 2015
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National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

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Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...

May 29th, 2015
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Teams of individuals who communicate effectively dramatically reduce the consequences of human er...

May 18th, 2015
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The Problem--Emergency departments were at capacity or beyond it, extending wait times. This resu...

April 1st, 2015
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Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...

March 31st, 2015
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The country’s highest presidential honor for performance excellence through innovation, improveme...

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

February 20th, 2015

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

December 16th, 2014
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Strengthening - Treatment - Outcomes - Patients Elmhurst Hospital Center participated in develop...

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Take best practices from two industries focused on safety and reliability—nuclear power and aviat...

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

August 18th, 2014

This podcast series explores a variety of different topics around patient safety and performance ...

May 22nd, 2014
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There is a need for greater understanding of the factors that lead to improved process quality an...

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St. Joseph Regional Health Center went on a Lean journey to not only save money, but improve the ...

March 17th, 2014
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Four generations are working side by side in hospitals and care systems today. Atlantic Health Sy...

January 27th, 2014
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As health care leaders implement diverse improvement projects, from reducing hospital-acquired in...

October 25th, 2013
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Lean transformation means improved patient care, employee satisfaction and reduced costs as MSHA ...

October 1st, 2013
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Learn from the best of the best. The 2013 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize® recipients will s...

September 23rd, 2013

The Florida Hospital Association highlights its quality improvement initiatives with several repo...

September 17th, 2013

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

September 16th, 2013
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Southeastern Health, Lumberton, N.C. 452 beds 16,000 impatient admissions 76,000 emergency d...

August 30th, 2013
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St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Conn. 396 licensed beds Full-service teaching hospi...

August 30th, 2013
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Board members have a critical role to play in setting the tone for meaningful quality improvement...

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Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typic...

April 8th, 2013
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Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...

March 31st, 2013
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Data suggests that the hospital has a three year (2006-2009) CHF readmission average of 24.2 perc...

March 31st, 2013
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The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...

March 25th, 2013
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Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...

March 25th, 2013
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Preoperative/procedure testing for surgical, cardiac catheterization and scheduled C-section pati...

March 25th, 2013
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The University of Michigan Health System used lean management and the plan-do-check-act cycle to ...

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

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Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...

March 6th, 2013
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Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...

March 6th, 2013
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An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...

March 6th, 2013
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What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...

December 3rd, 2012
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Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

November 20th, 2012
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Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

November 12th, 2012
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Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...

November 8th, 2012
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"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

November 5th, 2012
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Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...

October 22nd, 2012
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Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...

October 10th, 2012
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Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...

October 1st, 2012
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The IHI Improvement Capability Self‐Assessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...

September 26th, 2012
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Continuous. Quality. Improvement. To achieve that goal, Meriter Hospital, a 448-bed facility in M...

September 17th, 2012
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A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...

August 1st, 2012
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A strong collaboration among senior leadership, governance and the medical staff at Meriter Hospi...

July 19th, 2012
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After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

June 1st, 2012
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A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...

June 1st, 2012
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Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...

June 1st, 2012
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A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...

June 1st, 2012
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This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...

June 1st, 2012
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Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...

June 1st, 2012
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The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...

June 1st, 2012
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A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...

June 1st, 2012
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Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...

March 2nd, 2012
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This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.

February 22nd, 2012
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Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...

February 1st, 2012
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