Pursuing excellence: AHA initiative demonstrates value of teamwork in improving safety.

Focusing on ways to improve patient outcomes, the American Hospital Association has launched Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence. This effort to transform patient care through shared innovations highlights achievements at various hospitals around the country in areas including patient safety, reducing health care-acquired infections, medication management and patient throughput. As this report illustrates, the roles of materials management, nursing, infection control specialists and others are critically important to this effort.