title: Highlighting 2004 award-winning initiatives.
abstract: This issue takes a closer look at how five award-winning healthcare organizations are finding--and continually refining--innovative ways to provide high-quality healthcare. One of those organizations is Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton, which recently was named the fourth healthcare winner of the annual Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations recently selected two facilities in the hospital category--Stamford Hospital and Staten Island University Hospital--as recipients of the eighth annual Codman Award for their work in using outcomes measurement to promote quality care. The Reading Hospital and Medical Center received a Cheers Award from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices for its toolkit promoting patient safety. Sentara Healthcare System, top winner of the American Hospital Association's Quest for Quality Award, has been cited for its efforts to align its quality and safety goals with its organizational goals.
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D006268:Health Facilities / Q000592:standards*; D058016:Health Facility Administration; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D007857:Leadership; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States