Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The hospital identified two process improvement opportunities related to medication safety effort...

As identified in its 2014 Culture of Safety survey, the hospital’s overall mean score for the sta...

A history as a resource-challenged urban safety net hospital with a high-risk population, a lack ...

Bassett Medical Center, a 180-bed hospital in Cooperstown, New York, has implemented and sustaine...

Clark Regional Medical Center (CRMC) is a 79 bed, community hospital serving the residents of eas...

Norwood Hospital is a full-service, 263-bed community hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts. In 2013...

Boston Children’s Hospital and its associated pediatric primary care physicians organization coll...

Injectable extended-release formulation of naltrexone marketed as Vivitrol is a recent significan...

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

The link between excessive work hours and adverse errors is inseparable. This project investigate...

The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...

The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...

The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...

Perineal trauma during childbirth can lead to significant short- or long-term complications such ...

Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...

The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...

Lexington Regional Health Center, a 25-bed facility in Lexington, Nebraska, used best practices a...

Los Alamitos Medical Center, a 167-bed facility in Los Alamitos, California, used best practices ...

Ponca City Medical Center, a 140-bed facility in Ponca City, Oklahoma, used HEN best practices an...

Sanford Mayville Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Mayville, North Dakota, use...

UConn John Dempsey Hospital, a 174-bed facility in Farmington, Connecticut, used best practices a...

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

Goal-Reduce and prevent medical errors by adopting best practices and procedures. The Patient Sa...

The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...

Approximately 24 million people--8.5 percent of the U.S. population--are defined as having Limite...

The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...

At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...

A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative asses...

Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...

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

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...

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

In 2006, Southampton Hospital's department of nursing conducted a needs assessment focusing on th...

This journey began when St. Francis Hospital gave fruit cocktail to a patient with a severe aller...

In 2006, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation declared a bold vision for patient safety...

In November 2009, a group of 12 representatives from various areas within Rochester General Healt...

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

Anticoagulants have been identified as one of the top five medication classes associated with pat...

Smart infusion pump technology improves patient safety by providing decision support for nursing ...

Alice Hyde Medical Center's new program is designed to ensure safe medication administration in t...

In March 2009, after assessing staff's knowledge about fire prevention and safety, St. Mary's Hos...

The Problem Emergency departments across the nation are being stretched as more Americans rely o...

The Problem Adverse drug events occur in as many as 10 percent of hospitalized patients, with th...

The ProblemMedication errors in the health care delivery system are the most common type of error...