Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...

The critical care unit identified VAP as an area for improvement, with three VAPs from May-July 2...

The PICC team was created in March 2010 after the facility had documented an increase in PICC-ass...

The medical center’s mission was to reduce the C. difficile rate from 26.7 cases per 10,000 patie...

In late January 2012, pharmacists began reviewing potential pneumonia patients using a screening ...

This webinar provided an understanding of how scientific operations management and IHO Variabilit...

Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders were at a higher risk of po...

What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...

The November issue of Trustee magazine delves into hospital mergers with a cover article featurin...

Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

Physicians' steady interest in hospital employment — a trend that has accelerated in recent years...

This how-to guide describes the essentials elements of preventing obstetrical adverse events, inc...

Health plans and Medicare are using cost profiles to identify which physicians account for more h...

Hospital trustees considering a merger or other affiliation should ask themselves if they are tre...

Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...

When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...

Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...

The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...

AHRMM is the premier membership group for health care supply chain and materials management profe...

With more than 11,000 members, ASHE is the largest association devoted to optimizing the health c...

ASHHRA of the AHA, is the leading membership organization exclusively dedicated to meeting the pr...

Established in 1980, ASHRM is a personal membership group of the AHA with nearly 6,000 members re...

Today's hospital leaders are in need of products and services to help them meet growing efficienc...

An Alliance for Health Reform toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

This audio program features current news and information from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Rese...

By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...

Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...

The American Hospital Association's Physician Leadership Forum helps physicians and hospitals adv...

Objective: Rates of venous thromboembolism as high as 58 percent have been reported after trauma,...

The Standardized Care to Improve Outcomes in Pediatric ESRD (SCOPE) Quality Collaborative helps d...

Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...

This is a collection of resources around computerized physician order entry to assist in implemen...

University Hospitals Case Medical Center has undergone a decade-long cultural transformation to a...

Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...

America’s hospitals are committed to protecting the health and well-being of all patients, especi...

Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Re...

This study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and the Health Care Improvement Foundation (HCIF) partn...

Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...

This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...

Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...

Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...

Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...

A central line-associated blood stream infection rate of 1.5 infections per 1,000 patient days wa...

Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...

A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...

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 ...