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Hospitals and health systems recognized for excellence in health care equity are sharing their wo...
Does your hospital huddle? Staff in the medical-surgical unit at Fairbanks (AK) Memorial Hospital...
Today we need leaders who can help address the challenges and maximize the tremendous opportuniti...
From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and fa...
From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and fa...
Central line-associated bloodstream infections cause serious illness and death. Front-line caregi...
Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...
Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...
Year after year, America’s hospitals respond to meet pressing community health care needs. In 200...
During 2012, despite economic challenges, hospitals and health care systems throughout the United...
43,750: That’s the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates wo...
What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...
What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...
One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...
Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...
Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...
"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...
"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...
Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...
A just culture. A culture of transparency. A patient-first culture. Culture transformation at Uni...
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...
Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...
Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...
By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...
Continuous. Quality. Improvement. To achieve that goal, Meriter Hospital, a 448-bed facility in M...
Compassionate and cost effective is how Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Fla., des...
Every four years, the Olympic Games recognize athletes on a quest to be the best in their chosen ...
Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...
Health care professionals at Henry Ford Health System know how to connect with teenagers. About 1...
Though more work needs to be done, our nation's hospitals are making advancements in providing qu...
Marking its 60th anniversary last year, Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, can count many accompli...
Small but mighty describes Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hosp...
E-mail, e-books, e-commerce. And now for patients, eVisits. At the University of Pittsburgh Medic...
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in American men, after skin cancer. According to...
Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Re...
Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Re...
It?s estimated that patients remember and understand about half of the information they receive f...
Occupying a five-block campus on Chicago's west side and serving an area that stretches about 15 ...
May 13-19 is National Women's Health Week, a project of the U.S. Health and Human Services' Offic...
May 13-19 is National Women's Health Week, a project of the U.S. Health and Human Services' Offic...
Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...
Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...
The rural community of Ellenville, New York (population 4,000), and the New York borough of Brook...
Communication breakdowns continue to be a leading cause of medical errors. Staff at Butler County...
For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...
For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...
For 18 years, Community House Calls, a UW Medicine program of Harborview Medical Center in Seattl...
For 18 years, Community House Calls, a UW Medicine program of Harborview Medical Center in Seattl...
Walk into an ER for treatment and walk out with a medical home. Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospit...
Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...
Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...
Providing quality care for our tiniest patients, many hospitals are eliminating elective early te...
This statistic may surprise you: Mental health conditions and mood disorders including depression...
Wrong site surgeries are rare and difficult to study. But most health care organizations recogniz...
Improving quality of care can go hand in hand with eliminating disparities in care. University of...
Improving quality of care can go hand in hand with eliminating disparities in care. University of...
Teamwork benefits seniors, too. A partnership between Wishard Health Services?a large safety net ...
When Kaiser Permanente in California measured its incidence of pressure ulcers in patients three ...
Implementing quality improvement projects can improve patient safety and reduce inefficiency. But...
A strategy to use a single, integrated EMR has helped make Elliot Health System, based in Manches...
Carolinas HealthCare System, based in Charlotte, N.C., is partnering with 12 YMCA branches "to cr...
Care coordination is challenging for complex and vulnerable patient populations. Montefiore Medic...
A technique used in aviation is being applied to health care once again. To detect early malfunct...
To promote healthy communities, hospitals must lead the way and serve as role models. A recent AH...
Clinical IT systems create great opportunities and challenges, especially for rural hospitals. St...
Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...
Careful planning and multidisciplinary teamwork were keys for Bethesda Hospital, a 140-bed long-t...
Providing high-quality care to every child has always been the objective at Children's Mercy Hosp...
"App" and "austerity" were among the 2010 "words of the year" named by a dialect society and dict...
How do you measure success in creating a culture of health? Mountain View Hospital, a 25-bed crit...
How do you measure success in creating a culture of health? Mountain View Hospital, a 25-bed crit...
Restructuring care has reduced readmissions at St. Mary?s Duluth (MN) Clinic Heart and Vascular ...
Educating staff. Connecting patients to primary care physicians upon discharge. Identifying patie...
A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...
A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...
The answer is: attracting, retaining and developing the best workforce. The question: What is one...
Overcoming transition challenges requires tenacity and teamwork. During a time of transition befo...
Changing demographics continue to fuel the growth of cultural diversity in Northeast Ohio. In tur...
Changing demographics continue to fuel the growth of cultural diversity in Northeast Ohio. In tur...
Efficient bed placement for patients can mean fewer discharge delays, decreased length of stay an...
Statistics fans, check out these numbers: Staff at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) has...
Responding to an explosive growth in patient population, Yale-New Haven Hospital implemented a su...
"We will open the doors." This was no magic incantation. Instead, the critical care unit at Virgi...
Poor planning. High costs. These issues helped prompt Saint Joseph-London in London, Ky., to impr...
The mission: to eliminate all preventable harm by January 1, 2012. The team leaders: board of dir...
Electronic health records may create less paperwork, but documentation can still be time-consumin...
An integrated approach to project design drove breakthrough improvement in operating results at S...
Transplant recipients are fragile patients, at high risk for infections and fluid and electrolyte...
Listening to patients and the community can spark change. The Lehigh Valley Health Network, in ea...
Front-line nurses led the way in a medication safety initiative at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, S...
Labor and delivery departments are busy places. At New York-Presbyterian, providing appropriate b...
The patient population of Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass., seemed to lack diversity. But by ac...
The patient population of Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass., seemed to lack diversity. But by ac...
Rethinking a registration process kept its meds system in compliance. St. James Hospital and Heal...
"Navigating the rising tide of HACs" is what Baystate Medical Center (BMC) calls this project. A ...
Salt and a jar of pickles: That's what one HealthEast (St. Paul, Minn.) transition coach found in...
To expertly execute a dribble handoff in basketball, communication between teammates is key. How ...
To expertly execute a dribble handoff in basketball, communication between teammates is key. How ...
Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii, used "a novel approach" to ...
Timely access to health care is important for everyone, particularly our nation's veterans. From ...
March 6-12 is designated as National Patient Safety Awareness Week...and we know that America's h...