Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Rochester General Hospital's infection prevention team partnered with the surgical intensive care...

South Nassau Communities Hospital's goal for this initiative was to ensure rapid identification o...

Pertussis is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis...

Preventing health care-associated infections is a critical step in reducing morbidity and mortali...

In 2009, St. James Mercy Hospital implemented a new quality and patient safety initiative, Achiev...

Stony Brook University Medical Center joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvement critical ca...

With hand hygiene compliance at 37.3 percent, Syosset Hospital implemented a comprehensive approa...

Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

Careful planning and multidisciplinary teamwork were keys for Bethesda Hospital, a 140-bed long-t...

John Combes, M.D., president of the Center for Healthcare Governance, talks to H&HN Senior Online...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Steering Committee for the Prevention of H...

HAP launches a health care worker universal influenza vaccination campaign. The campaign provides...

The mission: to eliminate all preventable harm by January 1, 2012. The team leaders: board of dir...

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

2011 Guidelines

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 ...

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

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...