Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Nurses have always been on the front lines at hospitals providing quality, compassionate care for...

Every aspect of a patient’s experience of care is influenced by valuable and often underused reso...

Hospitals and faith organizations are collaborating to improve health care outcomes and organize ...

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

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

Zero is an important number at Broward Health North. The 409-bed community hospital in Deerfield ...

Holy Cross Hospital could be characterized as an emergency department with critical care units. T...

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

Wrong site surgeries are rare and difficult to study. But most health care organizations recogniz...

Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital's quality management team, led by the outcomes manager, part...

Over the past eight years, an interdisciplinary team at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital prioritized...

A temporary reduction in pharmacy hours at Clifton Springs Hospital and Clinic contributed to med...

Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...

Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...

In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/s...

Since The Joint Commission implemented the National Patient Safety Goal, "Reduction of the Likeli...

Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...

Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

Salt and a jar of pickles: That's what one HealthEast (St. Paul, Minn.) transition coach found in...

The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...

The ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...

Health care acquired infections in U.S. hospitals account for 1.7 million infections and 99,000 a...

Th e P roblemUrinary tract infections are the most common hospital-acquired infection with 80 per...

The Problem Central line-associated bloodstream infections have vexed hospitals performing inter...

The Problem With the national average of hospital-acquired skin breakdown at 4.8 percent, Bronso...