Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Within the organization over the last year, a new division of four hospitals was created, with th...

Perineal trauma during childbirth can lead to significant short- or long-term complications such ...

Antibiotic stewardship was implemented in 2011 and focuses on five "D's": Drug, De-escalation of ...

Maternal cardiac arrest is rare but often fatal. Obstetricians and perinatal nurses are often fir...

Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...

The medical center consistently missed internal quality targets, with a mean HAPU rate for 2007-2...

Reduction in the use of fluoroquinolones is an important intervention for antimicrobial stewardsh...

After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...

National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

This toolkit has tips on  Selecting Patients and Families to Serve as Advisors Preparation fo...

This blog post is from H&HN, the journal of the American Hospital Association and was written by ...

The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...

The ER blood culture contamination rate remained above the national target even after implementin...

In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...

The decision was made to proceed with efforts to eliminate elective deliveries prior to 39 weeks ...

When River Hospital, Alexandria Bay, N.Y., identified an unmet mental health need for active duty...

Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...

The AHA and the American Medical Association collaborated on this paper to present both physician...

SMH was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative designed to improve quality, effi...

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

The Institute for Diversity in Health Management, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, works close...

Human resources and the nursing leadership team worked together using a PDCA for rapid cycle impr...

A multidisciplinary committee found that despite an overall sepsis mortality rate similar to expe...

The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

Teams of individuals who communicate effectively dramatically reduce the consequences of human er...

Patient engagement is paramount to reducing readmissions and improving quality of life. That’s wh...

In January 2011, utilizing the hospital’s system-wide electronic medical records, a family medici...

Scorecards aren’t just for baseball and boxing. Health care leaders are using scorecards to track...

Sylvia Getman, president and CEO of the Aroostook Medical Center and senior vice president of Eas...

United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia, N.Y., focused on patients with congestive heart failure,...

Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...

Engaging Leadership and Governance in Quality and Patient Safety Initiatives Ensuring safe, high...

“Mobility is medicine,” say clinicians and volunteers working together to improve patient care at...

The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...

Building successful partnerships with patients and families may be a key strategy in a hospital’s...

The hospital recognized an urgent need to improve the current rate of colorectal cancer screening...

Variation and delays in the early mobilization of patients in the ICU can result in an increased ...

This facility's coronary artery stents per admission rate was consistently higher than the nation...

The project began with a focus on CHF readmissions. As the multidisciplinary team saw decreases i...

Ascension Health created a business unit called Transformational Development. It is charged with ...

 Hospital leaders struggle to provide effective care coordination to vulnerable populations. In 2...

Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...

An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

The goal was to decrease the number of patients negatively affected by experiencing a post-operat...

To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...

This quality project evaluated the impact of translating evidence based CLABSI practice from the ...

Hospitals and care systems are uniquely positioned to play an integral role preventing violence i...

The transformation of health care is occurring at a rapid pace causing an increase in the need to...

With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, decisions made at the state level pla...

Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...