Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

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...

Since 2010, the academic medical center has been supporting a program to reduce 30-day all cause ...

The case study addresses a hospital-based tobacco cessation initiative that serves patients regar...

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

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

Geisinger Health SystemDanville, PA545 Beds Geisinger Health System is an integrated health serv...

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

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...

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

A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress highlighted the financial enormity of t...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 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 ...

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 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 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...

The Problem Like many urban safety net hospitals, Hahnemann University Hospital struggled with o...

Holy Cross Hospital Health Centers are primary care medical centers that provide affordable servi...