Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

As a new generation of payment and delivery system reform emerges, much focus has been on a subse...

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

Reducing and eliminating patient harm are at the forefront of patient safety and continue to be a...

Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...

In response to high readmission rates coming from the health system’s skilled nursing facility (S...

The facility partnered with local emergency medical services (EMS) providers to improve early rec...

Chronic wounds are a growing problem in the United States. Based on evidence-based research of re...

The problem faced by the health system was the lack of a coordinated approach for the review and ...

The Reducing Readmissions: Making Data Real project decreased acute rehospitalization rates by al...

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

Surgical site infections (SSI) lead to patient suffering, morbidity and mortality, extended lengt...

Evidence-based practice supports early goal-directed therapy for patients with sepsis. Improving ...

The neurosurgery service at this Level I trauma center had experienced high rates of surgical sit...

The health system did not have an adequate process for notifying staff when a patient was on cont...

In 2013, the facility’s hospital-onset (HO) infection rate for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) ha...

The hospital’s venous thromboembolism (VTE) rate for total joint patients was 36.2 in 2011 and 37...

High rates of hospital readmissions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...

For several years, the hospital has been focused on reducing 30-day readmissions. After learning ...

Overutilizing blood transfusions adds significant costs and can increase patient length of stay a...

Readmissions are a burden for patients, families and health care providers. HSHS St. Joseph's Hos...

The goal of this quality improvement project was to reduce the length of hospitalization, to impr...

This academic medical center developed and implemented a program to improve outcomes and reduce r...

“Every staff member counts” and “every patient counts.” With this mantra, AllianceHealth Pryor in...

The AHA's Physician Leadership Forum and Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative have relea...

The Coachella Valley is a region in Southern California with an incredibly high rate of HIV. Base...

Throughout the country, primary care is faced with ongoing waves of healthcare reform (e.g. Accou...

For patients, the transition between acute and post-acute care is rife with risk. Even with moder...

As part of the efforts to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognize...

Telemedicine, successfully used in many areas of medicine, has yet to be evaluated during the reh...

The Integrated Care Management Program is a care manager collaborative created to ensure a smooth...

The Hospital Group focused on reducing the readmission rate on the rehabilitation service unit (R...

Every day, hospitals are successfully meeting challenges and providing quality care in their comm...

To address disparities in health care outcomes, Main Line Health is proactively addressing socioe...

Baseball managers tinker with team lineups to improve results on the field, and hospitals can do ...

A unique telemedicine consultation between a rural hospital and skilled rehabilitation/nursing fa...

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

A population health initiative in Rochester, New York, is bringing together two health care syste...

Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs direct judicious antimicrobial use to optimize patient outcome...

The medical center consistently missed internal quality targets, with a mean HAPU rate for 2007-2...

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...

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...

In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...

...and therefore decrease the hospital’s financial risk as part of health care reform, increase c...

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

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

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

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

In January 2011, utilizing the hospital’s system-wide electronic medical records, a family medici...

The project began with a focus on CHF readmissions. As the multidisciplinary team saw decreases i...

The Department of Veterans Affairs home-based primary care  began in 1972.  Home-based primary ca...

An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

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

U.S. hospitals aree xploring what it means to be a hospital in a rapidly transforming health care...

Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...

Lean Six Sigma tools were used to reduce pressure ulcers at Memorial Health System, Springfield, ...

Hospital-based Strategies for Creating a Culture of Health provides background on the Robert Wood...

OSF Healthcare, Peoria, Ill., wanted to improve the care of patients experiencing an ST elevation...

Presence St. Mary’s Hospital, Kankakee, Ill., improved readmission rates for heart failure patien...

Pekin (Ill.) Hospital used plan-do-study-act with evidence-based practice research, guidelines re...

Many Medicare patients with life-limiting illnesses had no documented advanced directive while in...

A gap analysis was conducted. Key themes emerged in this analysis such as inadequate preparation ...

Population health is receiving increased attention for its role in improving health care, specifi...

Pinnacle Health System Harrisburg, PA599 Beds The Problem Health systems are no longer simply as...