Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

Every aspect of a patient’s experience of care is influenced by valuable and often underused reso...

Hospitals and faith organizations are collaborating to improve health care outcomes and organize ...

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

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

Teamwork champions on a diverse change team: These were key as The MetroHealth System in Clevelan...

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

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

Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...

Making incremental changes and collaborating with area hospitals and community organizations have...

It is estimated that 25 percent of falls by hospital patients are preventable. Saint Alphonsus Re...

Small tests of change can give hospitals momentum and show early progress in improvement projects...

Zero is an important number at Broward Health North. The 409-bed community hospital in Deerfield ...

It is both a sprint and a marathon.” That's how a team at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor,...

Holy Cross Hospital could be characterized as an emergency department with critical care units. T...

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

Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

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

By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...

Wrong site surgeries are rare and difficult to study. But most health care organizations recogniz...

In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...

Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital's quality management team, led by the outcomes manager, part...

Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...

Over the past eight years, an interdisciplinary team at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital prioritized...

A temporary reduction in pharmacy hours at Clifton Springs Hospital and Clinic contributed to med...

Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

Ellis Medicine started this project in April 2010 to reduce readmissions, as readmissions are cli...

Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...

Good Samaritan Hospital's Clinical Transformation Team guided the formation of a Ventilator-Assoc...

An unprecedented cluster of infant falls from post-cesarean section mothers' arms sparked the mat...

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

Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...

Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...

Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...

The advent of computerized tomography (CT) has revolutionized diagnostic radiology. The use of CT...

In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/s...

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

Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...

Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

Educating staff. Connecting patients to primary care physicians upon discharge. Identifying patie...

The mission: to eliminate all preventable harm by January 1, 2012. The team leaders: board of dir...

Transplant recipients are fragile patients, at high risk for infections and fluid and electrolyte...

Salt and a jar of pickles: That's what one HealthEast (St. Paul, Minn.) transition coach found in...

The Problem According to the CDC, 248,000 bloodstream infections occur in U.S. hospitals each ye...

At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...

The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...

The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...

The ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...

The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...

The Problem Hazleton General Hospital officials were unhappy with their performance on a number ...

The Problem Hazleton General Hospital is committed to providing compassionate, patient-centered,...

Health care acquired infections in U.S. hospitals account for 1.7 million infections and 99,000 a...

Th e P roblemUrinary tract infections are the most common hospital-acquired infection with 80 per...

The Problem While all facitilites aspire to limit the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumon...

The Problem Inapproprate inductions of labor, defined as elective iductions less than 39 weeks g...

The Problem In 2007, all 19 regional perinatal programs in New York began looking at the reducti...

The Problem Central line-associated bloodstream infections have vexed hospitals performing inter...

The Problem Falls can occur at any time during the hospitalization, resulting in complications s...

The Problem In 2007, the Keystone Center for Patient Safety and Quality partnered with the Michi...

The Problem With mechanical ventilation being a large part of care for critical patients, teh ne...

The Problem Bronson's patient safety committee appointed a task force to look at medication erro...

The Problem With the national average of hospital-acquired skin breakdown at 4.8 percent, Bronso...

The Problem Hand hygiene is the single most important way to prevent the spread of infection in ...

The Problem The infection rate in the NICU at Charleston Area Medical Center was 18 percent in 2...