Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

On May 7, 2017, I swore an oath to become the 118th chairman of the American Hospital Association...

This weekend kicks off a not-to-be-missed event for hospital and health system leaders: the AHA’s...

Nurses have always been on the front lines at hospitals providing quality, compassionate care for...

I have been so proud to see America’s hospitals and health systems speak so passionately on behal...

There is a critical need to elevate the discussion around workforce planning and development to e...

Like many hospitals, SBH Health System uses the computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system. ...

Hospitals are helping students with disabilities transition from school to the workplace. Mat-Su ...

Bronchiolitis, one of the most costly and frequent medical diagnoses seen at the hospital, is a s...

This health system's employee influenza vaccination policy compliance rate was less than 70 perce...

Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...

The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...

Operational and physician leaders identified an opportunity to decrease the use of off-site telem...

This project has decreased cycle time for medication reconciliation at time of admission and for ...

Studies show lipase to be as sensitive as and more specific than amylase in diagnosing pancreatit...

The organization used both discrete event and live simulation methodologies to ensure the smooth ...

The emergency department (ED) was experiencing an increase in door-to-doctor times due to high pa...

Boarding patients in the emergency department (ED) is detrimental to patient care, and evidence s...

A local urology department partnered with the performance improvement department to identify oppo...

The clinic throughput time was viewed as excessive and lacked standardized best practices. A new ...

Surgery case cancellation rates OSF Center for Health were 10.5 percent over six months. This cre...

Every aspect of a patient’s experience of care is influenced by valuable and often underused reso...

Mercy, a large Catholic health care system, began its telehealth initiatives with an eICU program...

In January 2015, Southern Illinois Healthcare, based in Carbondale, was awarded an 18-month USDA ...

Funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Serv...

When outpatients at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, were frequently getting lost on their way to app...

This HPOE guide, a collaboration with the American Society for Healthcare Engineering, explores w...

In this study, the research team sought to compare the performance of provider-sponsored health p...

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Baxter Regional Medical Center, a 268-bed facility in Mountain Home, Arkansas, used best practice...

Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, a 237-bed facility in Orlando, Florida, used best practices and peer-to...

Garfield Medical Center, a 210-bed facility in Monterey, California, used best practices and peer...

Lexington Regional Health Center, a 25-bed facility in Lexington, Nebraska, used best practices a...

Los Alamitos Medical Center, a 167-bed facility in Los Alamitos, California, used best practices ...

Midstate Medical Center, a 134-bed facility in Meriden, Connecticut, committed to reducing harm a...

Ponca City Medical Center, a 140-bed facility in Ponca City, Oklahoma, used HEN best practices an...

Sanford Mayville Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Mayville, North Dakota, use...

St. Catherine Hospital, a 189-bed facility in East Chicago, Indiana, used best practices and peer...

Yuma Regional Medical Center, a 406-bed facility in Yuma, Arizona, used best practices and peer-t...