Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

NYU Lutheran Healthcare, Brooklyn, N.Y., created a shared medical appointment program transformin...

Education that increases awareness is one of the best ways to transform health outcomes. But, as ...

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

Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...

Matching patients with primary care physicians was top priority of this project improvement by th...

Albany Medical Center developed the Child Advocacy Resident Education program that aims to improv...

Three patient navigators are used to advocate on behalf of women with abnormal breast findings on...

In 2008, Ellis Hospital launched a medical home at its Ellis Health Center campus. This initiativ...

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

Bellin Health SystemGreen Bay, WI Bellin Health System is a nonprofit integrated health care del...

Cambridge Health AllianceCambridge, MA229 Beds Cambridge Health Alliance is an integrated health...

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH577 Beds Cincinnati Children’s Hospit...

Georgia Health Sciences Health Augusta, GA632 Beds Georgia Health Sciences Health System consist...

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

Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...

Howard University HospitalWashington, DC266 Beds Howard University Hospital is a private, nonpro...

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

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...

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...

Barnes-Jewish HospitalSt. Louis, MO1,305 Beds The Problem Barnes-Jewish Hospital created the Cen...

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...

Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...

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 ...

Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...

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...

Children's Mercy Hospitals & ClinicsKansas City, MO265 Beds The Problem The patient population a...

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

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 Problem Advocate Christ Medical Center's space in the admittance bay area and resource usage...

The Problem A new 192-room patient bed tower was constructed and designed with a new decentraliz...

The Problem In a 2008 medical staff satisfaction survey, 93 percent of Advocate Good Shepherd ph...

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

The Problem When the performance improvement team began to take stock of the situation in Advoca...

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

The Problem In 2004, Faxton Hospital and St. Luke's-Memorial Hospital merged. The leaders of the...

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

The Problem Good Samaritan's LWBS rate (2.1 percent) is close to the national average (2.0 perce...

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 According to a study published online by Health Affairs on January 15, 2008, the med...

The Problem The women and infants department's lean journey began in early 2006 when a local hos...

The Problem Several processes used in the care of patients of Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical ...

The Problem Advocate Lutheran General Hospital admits 32 percent of its emergency department pat...

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 Nurses have always stuggled with balancing time between their workloads. Employee sa...

The Problem The emergency department corrective action team began May 2, 2007 with the mission s...

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...