Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

In 2008, the health system’s program to contact discharged emergency department (ED) and immediat...

Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...

Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...

The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

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