Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

In 2003 the Institute of Medicine called on health plans to collect data on their members  race a...

The October issue focuses on disparities in health care, including an article on high-cost, low-q...

Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...

A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

A report released jointly by AARP's Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN F...

The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...

Changing demographics continue to fuel the growth of cultural diversity in Northeast Ohio. In tur...

The guide is a resource for those interested or already engaged in quality improvement initiative...

Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitiviti...

The Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals.

This report discussses the Center for Disease Control's involvement with Prevention Research Cent...

This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

The Urgency of Health System Reforms to Ensure Respect for Patients'  Wishes and Accou...

Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...

The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...

The Problem Progress West didn't so much have a problem but an opportunity. By opening a new hos...

The Problem Standard care for a patient in cardiac arrest has been cardiopulmonary resuscitation...

The Problem The women and infants department's lean journey began in early 2006 when a local hos...

The Diversity & Inclusion Council was developed to create and sustain an organizational culture t...