Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

In 2015, the geriatric and palliative care team at South Nassau Communities Hospital sponsored a ...

Stony Brook University Hospital coordinated efforts with its emergency department and ambulatory ...

BackgroundHenry Ford Health System is a not-for-profit corporation composed of hospitals, medical...

BackgroundIllinois Valley Community Hospital is a 49-bed, not-for-profit hospital located in Peru...

BackgroundMedStar Health is a not-for-profit health system in the Maryland and Washington, D.C., ...

BackgroundMultiCare Health System is a not-for-profit health care organization based in Tacoma, W...

BackgroundOchsner Health System in southeast Louisiana manages 13 hospitals and more than 40 heal...

After recognizing asthma as a major condition for many patients in the emergency department, St. ...

Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...

The facility partnered with local emergency medical services (EMS) providers to improve early rec...

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

Concurrent review of three core measure sets has ensured appropriate and timely patient care. The...

The emergency department (ED) was experiencing extended lengths of stay for psychiatric patients,...

Reducing inpatient length of stay has a strong impact on value and organizational performance, an...

Mercy, a large Catholic health care system, began its telehealth initiatives with an eICU program...

In January 2015, Southern Illinois Healthcare, based in Carbondale, was awarded an 18-month USDA ...

Funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Serv...

Recognizing the need to build a just culture, the leadership team at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hos...

The premise of this project was that failure to maintain a patient's respect and dignity represen...

The collaborative was launched by Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care in 2012 to trans...

Approximately two years ago frontline staff presented a proposal to remove bed and chair alarms f...

Patient and system tracers have been conducted at this institution since 2008. Prior to this proj...

A house wide effort was lead this year to teach and embed continuous improvement methodology and ...

As the conventional analogy notes, change occurs when an organization finds itself atop a burning...

Tufts Medical Center made a decision to create its own quality improvement training for its workf...

In 2012, a physician-led Pioneer accountable care organization recognized an opportunity to bette...

The health system's vision in 2014 was "to transform the delivery and financing of health care to...

The ICMP Program is a Care Manager collaborative created to ensure the transition of patient care...

North Shore Medical Center aims to provide the perfect patient experience based on evidence-based...

The skilled nursing facility three-day waiver program is an exciting opportunity at Partners Heal...

Nighttime or off-shift intubations are a low-frequency, high-risk procedure in a community hospit...

Under the leadership of the Process Improvement (PI) Department, the organization has been drivin...

The Perioperative Medicine Model of Care is a three-pronged approach to the postoperative care of...

North Shore Medical Center is dedicated to safely transitioning all emergency department patients...

TEMPO: Together Everyone Improves Patient Outcomes, an initiative undertaken at Saint Vincent Hos...

Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...

Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that diagnostic care for patients who were referred within the...

As the complexity and cost of cancer care increases, there is an urgent need to support and track...

New England Quality Care Alliance, a physician network, implemented a medication prior authorizat...

Newton-Wellesley Hospital reviewed rates of third and fourth degree obstetrical trauma (Patient S...

The integrated specialty pharmacy program at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., i...

In early 2010, Emerson Hospital board members, medical staff and executive leaders convened to ad...

The project's goal was to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in trached and ...

This health care system's unique post-acute care (PAC) continuum of Inpatient Rehabilitation Faci...

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

North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System opened a facility to treet heavioral health and prim...

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

The Bridge Model improves transitions of care by utilizing master’s-educated social workers in a ...

This project was designed to improve the total health care for patients of a community mental hea...

Lake Placid and Tupper Lake, nursing homes that are part of Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, N.Y....

This case study describes a pilot program to find out the effect that integrative behavioral heal...

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

The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...

Disparities in care were noted for diabetes, cardio vascular disease and cancer screeening for Hm...

Kaiser Permanente, as an integrated health care delivery system, has made significant progress to...

African American older adults are at greater risk of depression due to the higher incidence of ch...

Transforming organizations, such as academic health centers or teaching hospitals, toward creatin...

The driving principle behind the outpatient service excellence journey is excellent customer serv...

Southcentral FoundationAnchorage, AK150 beds A nonprofit health care organization owned by the A...

Informed Medical Decisions FoundationBoston, MAThe Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, founded...

Emory HealthcareAtlanta, GA Emory Healthcare, a large academic teaching system, deployed a patie...

Mayo Clinic has four operating unites to create new tools, processes and businesses. The Division...

As part of Franciscan St. James Health's commitment to improve the surgery processes, the hospita...

The Joint Academy is a multidisciplinary team approach that begins in the community with orthoped...

South Nassau Communities Hospital initiated the "Knot So Fast" project to promote a safe and effi...

Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...

Traditionally, primary care physicians maintain chief responsibility for treating their criticall...

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

The goal of this initiative was to improve patient flow, outcomes, and experience, as well as com...

AIM focuses care on people with advanced illness, which often involves more than one chronic diag...

The Respecting Choices' advance care planning program, developed in La Crosse, Wisconsin, is a mu...

In 2006, Ascension Health, the nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit health care system, chose ...

AtlantiCareAtlantic City, NJ538 Beds The Problem The Special Care Center is a primary care cente...

Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

Summa Health SystemAkron, OH461 Beds The Problem Summa Health System serves a five county region...