Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

March 12-18, 2017, is Patient Safety Awareness Week, led by the National Patient Safety Foundatio...

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

A health system in rural Minnesota has helped develop an innovative model to prevent prescription...

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

In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...

What does it take to be a winner? Children's Hospital Colorado received the 2015 AHA-McKesson Que...

National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...

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

Noting an upward trend in central line-associated blood stream infections, the hospital joined th...

Based on the consultant’s recommendations, Lee Memorial’s (Fort Myers, Fla.) senior management de...

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

This quality project evaluated the impact of translating evidence based CLABSI practice from the ...

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize annually honors hospitals and health systems that contin...

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize annually honors hospitals and health systems that contin...

Hospitals and care systems across the country are engaged in quality improvement efforts to impro...

The culture of an organization can actively support the commitment of its workforce by providing ...

The hospital applied for the Joint Commission certification as a Primary Stroke Center. In order...

Approximately 11,000 fatal patient falls occur in U.S. hospitals annually, but hospitals using ne...

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

Each year, the AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals and health systems that have...

Each year, the AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals and health systems that have...

Goal-Save lives, reduce suffering and lower costs related to complications of surgery. Developed...

This report highlights five years of quality improvement among Florida hospitals. It highlights "...

Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Network GoalsReduce patient harm by 40 percent and ...

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality prize honors hospitals that have a committed in a systemic man...

Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, the flagship publication of the AHA, has put together a web...

Throughout the past decade, there has been a substantial increase in the national frequency of po...

There were between 462,000 and 636,000 CLABSIs in nonneonatal critical care patients in the Unite...

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

After identification of an opportunity to reduce CAUTIs, leadership headed an initiative to reduc...

Harm/hospital-acquired condition reports were sent to each hospital. In reviewing both campuses, ...

To reduce the time to first dose of antibiotics to directly admitted pediatric oncology patients ...

The critical care unit identified VAP as an area for improvement, with three VAPs from May-July 2...

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

The medical center’s mission was to reduce the C. difficile rate from 26.7 cases per 10,000 patie...

An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...

The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...

Written by HRET staff member Cynthia Hedges Greising and AHA-NPSF Comprehensive Patient Safety Fe...

Griffin HospitalDerby, CT160 Beds Griffin Hospital is the flagship hospital for Planetree, Inc.,...

In August 2010, the Center for Transforming Healthcare launched its fourth project which aims to ...

The 2012 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality award winners and finalists are highlighted in this webin...

One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...

Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...

"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

Northwestern Memorial Hospital developed a comprehensive toolkit focused on the prevalence and im...

The Evaluation and Research on Antimicrobial Stewardship's Effect on Clostridium difficile (ERASE...

Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...

Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...

This audio program features current news and information from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Rese...

The Standardized Care to Improve Outcomes in Pediatric ESRD (SCOPE) Quality Collaborative helps d...

A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...

Patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure are more likely...

University Hospitals Case Medical Center has undergone a decade-long cultural transformation to a...

This study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...

Drawing from data reported by the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Agency for Healthcare Research an...

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and the Health Care Improvement Foundation (HCIF) partn...

Pennsylvania facilities submitted 879 medication error reports from July 1, 2004, through January...

Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...

A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...

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

Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...

Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...

Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

Resurrection Medical Center had a percutaneous coronary intervention within 90 minutes compliance...

The reduction of HAPU has been a focus for 10 years at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center. Over tha...

Quarterly surveys revealed elevated hospital-acquired pressure ulcer rates unchanged by previous ...

A multidisciplinary team was formed to increase the rate of risk assessment and appropriate thera...

As a small community hospital, ventilator-associated pneumonia incidence was low. However, the lo...

The 2011 recipients of the annual John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.  The award...

An interactive map showing quality initiatives by state

In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

Since The Joint Commission implemented the National Patient Safety Goal, "Reduction of the Likeli...

At the end of the second quarter of 2010, The Brooklyn Hospital Center identified that only four ...