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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, a 237-bed facility in Orlando, Florida, used best practices and peer-to...
Hospital Menonita de Aibonito, a 150-bed facility in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, used best practices a...
Hospital Menonita de Cayey, a 208-bed facility in Cayey, Puerto Rico, used best practices and pee...
Los Alamitos Medical Center, a 167-bed facility in Los Alamitos, California, used best practices ...
NCH Healthcare System, a 325-bed facility in Naples, Florida, started its journey to reduce harm ...
Ponca City Medical Center, a 140-bed facility in Ponca City, Oklahoma, used HEN best practices an...
Presence Saint Joseph Hospital, a 184-bed facility in Elgin, Illinois, examined quality metrics t...
St. Catherine Hospital, a 189-bed facility in East Chicago, Indiana, used best practices and peer...
St. John's Hospital, a 431-bed facility in Springfield, Illinois, used best practices and peer-to...
UConn John Dempsey Hospital, a 174-bed facility in Farmington, Connecticut, used best practices a...
Read about how Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare developed a minority nusing program that identifies ...
Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...
Based in the Pennsylvania cities of Allentown, Bethlehem and Hazleton, Lehigh Valley Health Netwo...
Baystate Health, based in Springfield, Mass., has two formal mentorship programs available to its...
The Minority Faculty Development Awards program at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cl...
The University of Mississippi Medical Center created a Healthcare Disparities Council with 40 mem...
Greenville Health System in South Carolina overhauled its leadership search and selection process...
Recognizing the need for diversity management, Sparrow Heatlh System in Lansing, Mich., hired a d...
The Institute for Diversity in Health Management's Summer Enrichment Program matches and places m...
California's Central Valley is known for its abundant fruits and vegetables; however, many famili...
The Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, a partner of the Brooklyn Health Disparities Center, ...
Increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of the nation's health professions workforce has many ...
The National Center for Health Care Leadership's diversity leadership demonstration project is th...
INTEGRIS Health is the largest Oklahoma-owned health care corporation. Its facilities cover the c...
Founded in 1989, the Metro Community Provider Network is a nonprofit organization in the Denver M...
Pinnacle Health System Harrisburg, PA599 Beds The Problem Health systems are no longer simply as...
The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...
Greenville Health SystemGreenville, South Carolina786 Beds The Problem The diversity of the lead...
The University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health and its Center for Health Litera...
The University of Michigan Health System used lean management and the plan-do-check-act cycle to ...
The YWCA of Greater Milwaukee created a diversity training program focused on race and racism, in...
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Texas Health Institute developed a fr...
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Geriatric Education Center provides geriatric education ...
This case study explains Barnes-Jewish Hospital's approach to training it 4,100 team members thr...
This study of Spanish-speaking rural Latinos with diabetes finds that Spanish fluency is independ...
In a society as culturally diverse as the United States, especially in New York City, members of...
In 2005, the University of Washington School of Medicine was awarded a grant from the National In...
This case study describes an evidence-based residency program that applies to an international au...
The use of cross-cultural diversity forum isexamined. The forums use technology and tools to brin...
According to the Pew research center, 74 percent of all adults in the United States use the Inte...
Since 2011, a series of narrated video slideshow presentations has been under development at Har...
The ADA committee at the Kaiser Woodland Hills facility was started in 2010 in an effort to compl...
This case study looks at he Joint Commission's recommendation related to culturally and linguisti...
Little is known about the unique health needs and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans...
The University of Connecticut's community-based education program collaborated with community par...
Kaiser Permanente, as an integrated health care delivery system, has made significant progress to...
n 2008, Barnes-Jewish Hospital center for diversity and cultural competence developed an 18-hourc...
Today health disparities remain a constant challenge for immigrants, refugees and displaced popul...
This case study explores the process of accessing health care from the perspective of the immigra...
Many immigrant parents rely on their children to help them communicate as ad hoc interpreters in ...
There is often a lack of coordination among the various health and social systems that provide in...
Approximately 24 million people--8.5 percent of the U.S. population--are defined as having Limite...
Transforming organizations, such as academic health centers or teaching hospitals, toward creatin...
Examples of and the rationale for strategies used to foster critical consciousness in the work of...
As the United States becomes increasingly diverse and as individuals choose to be more acculturat...
A team was created to ensure that all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, language, disabilit...
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH577 Beds Cincinnati Children’s Hospit...
Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...
Atlantic Health SystemNew Jersey1,308 Beds Atlantic Health System owns and operates Morristown M...
Ryhov HospitalJönköping, Sweden Ryhov Hospital is a county hospital in Jönköping, Sweden, with a...
Among California's African American, Native American, Latino and Hmong populations, a diagnosis o...
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...
Although Maryland enjoys the third highest median income in the United States, the state suffers ...
The Kishwaukee Community Hospital nurses and physicians recognized the opportunity to improve car...
Using Plan-Do-Study-Act, this initiative prioritized utilization of spirometry as the standard di...
Shortcomings in the treatment for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock were observed. An ...
The aim of this project was to reduce the number of Venous Thromboembolisms acquired during hospi...
South Nassau Communities Hospital initiated the "Knot So Fast" project to promote a safe and effi...
The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...
Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...
Traditionally, primary care physicians maintain chief responsibility for treating their criticall...
Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...
San Mateo Medical Center San Mateo, CA307 Beds The Problem San Mateo Medical Center has collecte...
University of Mississippi Medical CenterJackson, MS623 Beds The Problem University of Mississipp...
University HospitalsCleveland, OH1,032 Beds The Problem To address the changing demographics of ...