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Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...
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...
Leadership, innovation and commitment to quality and safety—all are needed to deliver exceptional...
Kennedy Health Decreases Sepsis BackgroundKennedy Health is an integrated health delivery system...
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...
Evidence-based guidelines now support restrictive red blood cell transfusion practices to enhance...
Failure to rescue is the failure to recognize or act upon the patient's decline in condition resu...
This AHRQ video vignette illustrates how to engage dialysis patients in infection prevention....
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,...
The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...
Teamwork champions on a diverse change team: These were key as The MetroHealth System in Clevelan...
Read about how patient and family engagement practices are related to patient experiences. This s...
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 ...
The concept of the Triple Aim is widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...
Each year, the Illinois Hospital Association recognizes and celebrates the achievements of Illino...
Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in...
The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...
The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...
Maternal cardiac arrest is rare but often fatal. Obstetricians and perinatal nurses are often fir...
The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...
National attention to the issue of antibiotic stewardship is increasing. Drug-resistant bacteria ...
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...
South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside, N.Y., focused on educating patients with chronic co...
Engaging Leadership and Governance in Quality and Patient Safety Initiatives Ensuring safe, high...
Variation and delays in the early mobilization of patients in the ICU can result in an increased ...
This facility's coronary artery stents per admission rate was consistently higher than the nation...
The project began with a focus on CHF readmissions. As the multidisciplinary team saw decreases i...
To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...
The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...
Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...
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...