Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Transplant recipients are fragile patients, at high risk for infections and fluid and electrolyte...

Results from the 2010 survey about readmission activities are presented

In late 2010, NAPH administered an online survey to quality directors (or their designee) at 101 ...

Front-line nurses led the way in a medication safety initiative at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, S...

Rethinking a registration process kept its meds system in compliance. St. James Hospital and Heal...

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

March 6-12 is designated as National Patient Safety Awareness Week...and we know that America's h...

An analysis of the current market

At the 7th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium in Chicago, Nancy Donaldson, R.N., dir...

Why Is Focusing On Preventable Mortality Important?Hospital leaders work hard every day to provid...

 The purpose of this guide is to provide hospitals with a resource to help reduce inappropriate v...

One measure in one area in one month: 1-1-1. That's the call-to-action plan employed by Parrish M...

2011 Guidelines

The guide is based on the learning that emerged from a multi-year pilot project that aimed to red...

The report provides: Background on health and wellness programs and how they are incentivized ...

When Olean (NY) General Hospital decided to improve medication management by using technology, it...

While many health care-acquired infections are transmitted by personal contact due to poor hand h...

Making cleanliness everyone's responsibility was part of an infection control and patient safety ...

At the AHA/Health Forum Leadership Summit in July, David Pryor, M.D., chief medical officer for S...

This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...

The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...

The medical standard for timely angioplasty was 90 minutes door to balloon.  The average for Lehi...

Senior leaders at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, knew the system's community-acq...

Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from th...

When Poudre Valley Health System, based in Fort Collins, Colo., started using bedside medication ...

A wrong-site surgery on a toe was the catalyst for a comprehensive new surgical time-out initiati...

For many hospitals, the road to improved quality often begins with transparency, where unexpected...

The federal health reform legislation includes several demonstration projects that will be held i...

Texas Health Resources, a 14-hospital system based in Arlington, wanted to not only reduce ventil...

For executive leaders at Catholic Healthcare Partners, Cincinnati, patient safety is an issue to ...

When Katherine Herrmann, the clinical quality facilitator at Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, w...

When the Infection Prevention and Control Department of Medical Center of McKinney in McKinney, T...

Presented by Eric A. Coleman, MD,  this webinar addressed proposed changes in how hospitals are r...

At Columbia St. Mary's Hospital, Milwaukee, discharge planning truly begins at admission. Care te...

Reducing patient readmissions is both a critical patient safety need and a growing financial conc...

Even best practices need fine-tuning. When the critical care team at Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta, ...

Aesop?s fable "The Bundle of Sticks" teaches a lesson in working together: "Union gives strength....

The guide is designed to serve as a quick, simple resource by outlining four steps: Examine yo...

A report based on an invitational forum held on March 13, 2009, sponsored by Medically Induced Tr...

In 2005, the neonatal intensive care unit at Women and Children's Hospital of West Virginia exper...

The Problem Pneumonia accounts for approximately 15 percent of all hospital-acquired infections ...

The Problem Severe sepsis is one of the most significant challenges in critical care. Although S...

The Problem Vanderbilt's project didn't address a problem so much as it focused on a goal: to be...

The Problem More than one million serious medication errors occur each year in U.S. hospitals. T...

As a result of care coordination activities with Medicare patients, the opportunity to improve pa...

The Problem According to the CDC, 248,000 bloodstream infections occur in U.S. hospitals each ye...

At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...

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

The Problem The organization was recording more patient falls than its leadership considered acc...