Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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Today's hospital leaders are in need of products and services to help them meet growing efficienc...

Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...

An Alliance for Health Reform toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...

Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

Diabetes is among the ten leading causes of death in both white and African American patients, bu...

Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...

Accelerating Care Integration Lack of care coordination and integration was identified as a majo...

Secondary analysis of data from two studies examining palliative care in rural areas was conducte...

Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...

The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...

This audio program features current news and information from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Rese...

The AHA is dedicated to highlighting the good work that America's hospitals are doing to care and...

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

Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...

A loading dose is an initial dose of medication administered to rapidly achieve therapeutic level...

Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...

America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, say...

The American Hospital Association's Physician Leadership Forum helps physicians and hospitals adv...

This web seminar provided participants with information about diversity management, cultural comp...

Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...

Objective: Rates of venous thromboembolism as high as 58 percent have been reported after trauma,...

PLF hosted a session on achieving team-based health care delivery. David Nash, MD, founding dean ...

The Standardized Care to Improve Outcomes in Pediatric ESRD (SCOPE) Quality Collaborative helps d...

The Health Disparities Cancer Collaborative implemented six components of the chronic care model ...

This commentary was written by  Daren R. Anderson, MD, vice president and chief quality officer, ...

Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...

This is a collection of resources around computerized physician order entry to assist in implemen...

This article discusses how clinically at-risk and socially disadvantaged populations may not be f...

Studies suggest that the presence of multiple chronic conditions (MCC) adds a layer of complexity...

University Hospitals Case Medical Center has undergone a decade-long cultural transformation to a...

Mayo Clinic has four operating unites to create new tools, processes and businesses. The Division...

Partner's created the Center for Connected Health to promote technology-enabled innovations in te...

Kaiser maintains a number of operating units to identify and test innovations. The Center for Tot...

Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...

Quality is the first word that comes to mind when we talk about the American Hospital Association...

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in American men, after skin cancer. According to...

America’s hospitals are committed to protecting the health and well-being of all patients, especi...

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...

Fully two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. One-third of American children are overwei...

This study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and the Health Care Improvement Foundation (HCIF) partn...

This chartpack offers a snapshot of some common strategies used to improve the quality of care th...

Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...

This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...

Among the agencies that have made a substantial effort toward competency is the Nursing Home Ombu...

Fairfield Memorial Hospital identified the need to improve the patient experience in the emergenc...

As part of Franciscan St. James Health's commitment to improve the surgery processes, the hospita...

Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...

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

Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...

A central line-associated blood stream infection rate of 1.5 infections per 1,000 patient days wa...

Rush-Copley Medical Center collaborated with the Kane County Health Department after an outbreak ...

Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...

A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...

A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...

This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...

Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...

Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative asses...

The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...

The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...

The reduction of HAPU has been a focus for 10 years at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center. Over tha...

Quarterly surveys revealed elevated hospital-acquired pressure ulcer rates unchanged by previous ...

A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...

As a small community hospital, ventilator-associated pneumonia incidence was low. However, the lo...

This web seminar highlighted improvements in staff training and building the culturally competent...

This webinar highlighted the necessity to eliminate elective early term deliveries due to its imp...

The authors found little evidence that participation in the Premier HQID program led to lower 30-...

This webinar highlighted the essential elements within care coordination strategies for the dual ...

Providing quality care for our tiniest patients, many hospitals are eliminating elective early te...

The 2011 recipients of the annual John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.  The award...

This paper explores the current landscape of patient-centered medical home services for patients ...