Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...

Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...

A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...

This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...

Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...

Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

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

Resurrection Medical Center had a percutaneous coronary intervention within 90 minutes compliance...

Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...

The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...

The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...

The reduction of HAPU has been a focus for 10 years at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center. Over tha...

Quarterly surveys revealed elevated hospital-acquired pressure ulcer rates unchanged by previous ...

A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...

A multidisciplinary team was formed to increase the rate of risk assessment and appropriate thera...

As a small community hospital, ventilator-associated pneumonia incidence was low. However, the lo...

With nearly half of all emergency departments operating at or above capacity and the majority of ...

An annual list of the top 100 hospitals in the United States.

For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...

This webinar highlighted the necessity to eliminate elective early term deliveries due to its imp...