CNO-turned-executive director Kerri Scanlon remains passionate about healthcare excellence. As a nurse leader at Northwell Health in New York for more than 25 years, including chief nursing officer ...

With the introduction of Partnership for Patients and other initiatives, healthcare organizations are focusing more than ever on improving patient safety. Quality improvement studies can help guide ...

New study findings show the vast majority of small-scale quality improvement (QI) projects in surgery suffer from poor ...

The overuse of antibiotics can lead to antibiotic resistance — a phenomena that kills an estimated 23,000 Americans with infections each year and contributes to $2.2 billion in costs to the U.S.

A collection of articles and PowerPoint presentations that provide new improvers (people interested in problem solving and process improvement) with an introduction to the problem solving framework ...

My aha! moment about the zero-defect concept happened in 2009. We were discussing with a customer how to document all data created during the production process in order to enable a traceability ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Quality improvement is a broad term as it applies to health care, and as a major payer for the End-Stage Kidney ...

The following article is written by Mary Sturm, VP of clinical operations for Surgical Management Professionals. As the saying goes, “You only have one chance to make a first impression.” For many of ...

Accreditation organizations expect ASCs to perform quality assurance performance improvement projects using a 10-step documented process, according to Surgical Information Systems Clinical Solutions ...

About 800 U.S. hospitals have earned accreditation from the American College of Surgeons (ACS) between 2017 and 2023 through programs aimed at improving the quality of surgical care. Researchers found ...