Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This weekend kicks off a not-to-be-missed event for hospital and health system leaders: the AHA’s...

Hospitals are helping students with disabilities transition from school to the workplace. Mat-Su ...

A vigorous approach to quality improvement at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Ill., is ac...

When outpatients at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, were frequently getting lost on their way to app...

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

Learning, sharing resources and discussing projects on cutting-edge topics in health care transfo...

Take best practices from two industries focused on safety and reliability—nuclear power and aviat...

Three Illinois hospitals received recognition for “delivering quality with distinction” by the Il...

Hospitals and health care systems can support their missions and also many additional benefits by...

Providing world-class quality health care may seem an audacious goal for a small or rural hospita...

Preventing hospital-acquired infections, reducing surgical complications and reducing readmission...

Learn from the best of the best. The 2013 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize® recipients will s...

At North Shore-LIJ Health System, teamwork is everywhere. This New York health system uses TeamST...

In July 2013, the AHA released another collection of action-oriented resources that can help hosp...

Telepsychiatry is playing a pivotal role in providing timely care to hospitalized mental health p...

"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

A just culture. A culture of transparency. A patient-first culture. Culture transformation at Uni...

Continuous. Quality. Improvement. To achieve that goal, Meriter Hospital, a 448-bed facility in M...

E-mail, e-books, e-commerce. And now for patients, eVisits. At the University of Pittsburgh Medic...

The rural community of Ellenville, New York (population 4,000), and the New York borough of Brook...

Clinical IT systems create great opportunities and challenges, especially for rural hospitals. St...

Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...

Careful planning and multidisciplinary teamwork were keys for Bethesda Hospital, a 140-bed long-t...

Efficient bed placement for patients can mean fewer discharge delays, decreased length of stay an...

Quality improvement and transparency go hand in hand, David Ballard, M.D., senior vice president ...

Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...

Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, wanted to transform its organization and in turn, transformed ...

Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from th...