Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Quality and safety are “top of the agenda” at urban and rural hospitals across the country. At Ho...

Using HOUDINI to eliminate CAUTI. It’s all about decreasing the inappropriate use of indwelling c...

State and regional hospital associations across the United States are recognizing hospitals and h...

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

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

Each year more than one million patients in the United States are diagnosed with sepsis, a condit...

 White Plains (N.Y.) Hospital Center’s interdisciplinary team developed a disinfection procedure ...

In 2009, a multi-pronged approach involving all stakeholders was launched aimed at early identifi...

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

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

The goal was to decrease the number of patients negatively affected by experiencing a post-operat...

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

For six months, Brandywine Hospital has not had one central line-associated bloodstream infection...

Nearly 1,500 U.S. hospitals are working to eliminate patient harm and reduce hospital readmission...

Strengthening - Treatment - Outcomes - Patients Elmhurst Hospital Center participated in develop...

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

The Florida Hospital Association highlights its quality improvement initiatives with several repo...

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

On the Cusp Initiative GoalReduce the occurrence of two frequent hospital-acquired infections—ur...

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

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

This webinar highlights the upcoming HPOE action guide, "Eliminating Catheter-Associated Urinary ...

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

A nurse-driven protocol was implemented to increase the staff’s awareness on the appropriate indi...

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

The hospital joined the On the CUSP: Stop BSI  collaborative offered by IHA. The focus was on CLA...

Central line-associated bloodstream infections continued to occur in the adult ICU despite the im...

In October 2010, Memorial Medical Center implemented an intervention “bundle” designed to reduce ...

A hospital study was conducted to evaluate the practicality and effectiveness of UV light as a ge...

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

Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...

The purpose of the project was to improve the recognition and early goal directed treatment of pa...

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 PICC team was created in March 2010 after the facility had documented an increase in PICC-ass...

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...

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

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

Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...

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...

On the CUSP: Stop BSI and Stop CAUTI aim to eliminate central line associated bloodstream infecti...

The following information is a guide of infection prevention recommendations for outpatient (ambu...

This online education program has been developed by infection control experts from Joint Commissi...

The Quality Transformation Network is a large and growing group of children's hospitals combining...

This multi-year NACHRI effort is focused on reducing CLABSI in the pediatric hematology/oncology ...

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...

This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...

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. ...

The goal of this program was to reduce the number of Foley catheter-associated urinary tract infe...

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

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...

This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...

A central line-associated blood stream infection rate of 1.5 infections per 1,000 patient days wa...

Roseland Community Hospital joined the Illinois Foundation for Quality Healthcare, the quality im...

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

A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...

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

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

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

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

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

In the winter of 2010, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital initiated its first Comprehensive Unit-Bas...

Performing well with the core measures has become increasingly important and challenging for heal...

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

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

To reduce the incidence and spread of hospitalacquired infections in two critical operational nod...

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...

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

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