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Hospitals and health systems recognized for excellence in health care equity are sharing their wo...
Nurses have always been on the front lines at hospitals providing quality, compassionate care for...
March 12-18, 2017, is Patient Safety Awareness Week, led by the National Patient Safety Foundatio...
Quality and safety are “top of the agenda” at urban and rural hospitals across the country. At Ho...
A health system in rural Minnesota has helped develop an innovative model to prevent prescription...
A “Germ Crusher” challenge at Children’s Hospital Colorado brought together leadership, staff, pa...
“Small changes can make a big difference.” So say health care professionals working to prevent ad...
Using HOUDINI to eliminate CAUTI. It’s all about decreasing the inappropriate use of indwelling c...
State and regional hospital associations across the United States are recognizing hospitals and h...
Mission accomplished, but the work continues. At Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in L...
Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...
Each year more than one million patients in the United States are diagnosed with sepsis, a condit...
A unique telemedicine consultation between a rural hospital and skilled rehabilitation/nursing fa...
What does it take to be a winner? Children's Hospital Colorado received the 2015 AHA-McKesson Que...
“Mobility is medicine,” say clinicians and volunteers working together to improve patient care at...
The only acceptable number of avoidable patient harms is zero. At Ponca City (Okla.) Medical Cent...
The AHA/HRET HEN project ended in December 2014, but quality improvement work continues at hospit...
Making incremental changes and collaborating with area hospitals and community organizations have...
Nearly 1,500 U.S. hospitals are working to eliminate patient harm and reduce hospital readmission...
Small tests of change can give hospitals momentum and show early progress in improvement projects...
The National Patient Safety Foundation leads Patient Safety Awareness Week in early March to prom...
A “simple” complex plan is reducing readmissions at Wythe County Community Hospital, a 100-bed fa...
Eliminating hospital-acquired infections, preventing patient falls, reducing preventable readmiss...
It is both a sprint and a marathon.” That's how a team at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor,...
Improving discharge can reap multiple benefits for patients and providers, including reducing rea...
Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typic...
One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...
Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...
"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...
By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...
For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...
Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...
The medical standard for timely angioplasty was 90 minutes door to balloon. The average for Lehi...
Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from th...
The Problem Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem nationwide, caused, in part, by injudi...
