Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

The emergency department (ED) was experiencing extended lengths of stay for psychiatric patients,...

Sepsis is a medical condition with high rates of morbidity, mortality and cost and it is the most...

The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's quality award submissions are highlighted on HPOE....

Undergoing surgery of any kind can be a stressful experience for patients and their families. The...

Across the United States, nonprofit hospitals are conducting community health needs assessments, ...

Creating a quieter hospital environment can help the healing process and improve the patient expe...

Four years ago this hospital had no clinical leadership development program. Physician leaders wi...

Patient and system tracers have been conducted at this institution since 2008. Prior to this proj...

A house wide effort was lead this year to teach and embed continuous improvement methodology and ...

Tufts Medical Center made a decision to create its own quality improvement training for its workf...

The health system's vision in 2014 was "to transform the delivery and financing of health care to...

The ICMP Program is a Care Manager collaborative created to ensure the transition of patient care...

At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a small group of challenging patients account for a disproportio...

Under the leadership of the Process Improvement (PI) Department, the organization has been drivin...

North Shore Medical Center is dedicated to safely transitioning all emergency department patients...

Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that diagnostic care for patients who were referred within the...

Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Physician’s Organization implem...

To meet a high demand for Chinese interpreters, the Tufts Medical Center Interpreter Services wor...

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

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

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

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

Preventing hospital-acquired infections, reducing surgical complications and reducing readmission...

In July 2013, the AHA released another collection of action-oriented resources that can help hosp...

In California, about 16 percent of the adult population, more than 4 million people, have mental ...

Children diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities and behavior disorders need q...

Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, Jackson, Miss.– 633 beds– 3,000-plus employees In 1997, Miss...

The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...

This second report in this series expands and explains all three strategies and focuses on patien...

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

One of the most vital strategies in the current health care environment is physician-hospital ali...

Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

“End of life care,” “serious illness” or “advanced illness” are some of the terms used to categor...

As part of Franciscan St. James Health's commitment to improve the surgery processes, the hospita...

This statistic may surprise you: Mental health conditions and mood disorders including depression...

This paper examines successful approaches to delivering mental health treatment in primary care a...

AIM focuses care on people with advanced illness, which often involves more than one chronic diag...

Wishard Health ServicesIndianapolis, IN293 Beds  The Problem Geriatric Resources for Assessment ...

This report provides a guide to conducting health impact assessments. It stresses the importance ...

In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conduc...

The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...

Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...

The SUNY Downsstate Medical Center kidney transplant team identified an increase in the differenc...

This 46-page document reviews the history of Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives and consi...