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• Charting the Way to Greater Success: Pursuing Perfection in Sweden
  Jönköping County (Sweden) began its association with Pursuing Perfection in 2001. In conjunction with previous improvement work, the new processes and concepts from Pursuing Perfection has led to advances across the county's health care system. Jönköping is setting the pace for many of the system-level dimensions of quality that Pursuing Perfection has tackled.
• Pursuing Perfection: Report from Cambridge Health Alliance on Improving Asthma Care
  Although the seeds of Cambridge Health Alliance's asthma improvement work had already been planted, Pursuing Perfection provided an opportunity to take a more proactive approach to caring for children with asthma.
• Pursuing Perfection: Report from Cincinnati Children’s on Improving Family-Centered Care for Cystic Fibrosis Patients
  The Cystic Fibrosis Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA) wanted better results for its patients. But leaders didn't want to just improve outcomes; they wanted to increase collaboration among providers, patients, and families, enabling all partners to be equally vital team members working together toward common goals.
• Pursuing Perfection: Report from Hackensack University Medical Center on Multidisciplinary Rounds
  With Pursuing Perfection as a catalyst, Hackensack University Medical Center (Hackensack, New Jersey, USA) has undertaken a wide range of quality initiatives, from delivering more effective care to heart attack patients, to instituting programs that improve medication safety. One of their successful creations is the multidisciplinary rounds; a team of caregivers who make daily visits to patients — one one by one — on specified medical units.
• Pursuing Perfection: Report from HealthPartners on Prepared Practice Teams
  Having been awarded the Pursuing Perfection grant in 2002, HealthPartners Medical Group recognized that the Pursuing Perfection program could serve as a catalyst to promote positive change across the entire HealthPartners system. One of the improvements was to transform patient care by implementing a new "Planned Care Model."
• Pursuing Perfection: Report from McLeod on Improving Medication Safety
  McLeod Regional Medical Center, a member of IHI's Pursuing Perfection program, improves their rate of medication errors by making numerous changes in their care methods beginning with a top-down change in culture.
• Pursuing Perfection: Report from McLeod Regional Medical Center on Leadership Patient Rounds
  Hospital leaders create and carry out strategic plans for their institutions, ideally based on the best information available. Senior leaders at McLeod Regional Medical Center (Florence, South Carolina, USA) decided the best way to gain a thorough understanding of their hospital — what was working well and what wasn't — was to connect more directly with front-line staff, care delivery processes, and patients themselves.
• Pursuing Perfection: Report from Tallahassee on Reducing Mortality
  Tallahassee Memorial Hospital (Tallahassee, Florida, USA) reduces patient mortality through an array of patient safety improvement initiatives as part of IHI's Pursuing Perfection program.
• Pursuing Perfection: Report from Whatcom County, Washington on Patient-Centered Care
  When the Community Health Improvement Consortium (CHIC) of Whatcom County received the Pursuing Perfection grant, they started to focus on one of the IOM aims patient-centered care.
• Pursuing Perfection: School Nurses Key to Asthma Project at Cambridge Health Alliance
  Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), a health care system in Massachusetts (USA), has identified local school nurses as valuable members of their Pursuing Perfection Pediatric Asthma Project team.
• Pursuing Perfection: The Synapse Between Silos: Patient-Centered Care in Whatcom County
  Whatcom County's Pursuing Perfection team is developing a patient-centered system of care that aims to dissolve silos.
• Pursuing Perfection: The View from Across the Pond
  Four years after a small group of English health and social care communities began pursuing perfection in the National Health Service (UK) they have some remarkable success stories to report.
• Report from Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare on Enhancing Continuity of Care
  Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (Tallahassee, Florida, USA), in partnership with their counterparts at the area's largest health plan, recognized that improving communication between their two organizations, particularly about patients with complex care requirements, could improve care and possibly reduce costs as well.