Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Today health disparities remain a constant challenge for immigrants, refugees and displaced popul...

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...

The need for cultural competence among physician providers is widely recognized by accrediting bo...

The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...

A team was created to ensure that all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, language, disabilit...

Southcentral FoundationAnchorage, AK150 beds A nonprofit health care organization owned by the A...

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...

Informed Medical Decisions FoundationBoston, MAThe Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, founded...

Emory HealthcareAtlanta, GA Emory Healthcare, a large academic teaching system, deployed a patie...

Patient-reported experiences of care are an important focus in health disparities research. This ...

While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...

Assisted living facilities allow residents to "age in place" by adjusting their level of care and...

Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

The Association of American Medical Colleges is pleased to present Diversity in Medical Education...

Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

Sandy Hausman reports on the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, a Commonwealth Fund-supported de...

Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...

A loading dose is an initial dose of medication administered to rapidly achieve therapeutic level...

Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...

There is widespread agreement that the current fee-for-service approach to paying for health care...

Seasonal influenza remains a serious public health concern. According to the CDC, seasonal influe...

The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...

At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...

Using Plan-Do-Study-Act, this initiative prioritized utilization of spirometry as the standard di...

The aim of this project was to reduce the number of Venous Thromboembolisms acquired during hospi...

This paper examines successful approaches to delivering mental health treatment in primary care a...

This decision-maker brief offers programmatic and policy changes that can help practices, especia...

This brief describes how decisionmakers can encourage a model of care that truly reflects the nee...

This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.

Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

Multidisciplinary rounding (MDR) is a model of care in which multiple members of the care deliver...

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 ...

Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...

St. Mary's Healthcare has an obligation to protect patients from harm and preventing adverse effe...

Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...

North Bronx Healthcare Network devised a process to analyze its departmental risk management data...

Alice Hyde Medical Center's new program is designed to ensure safe medication administration in t...

San Mateo Medical Center San Mateo, CA307 Beds The Problem San Mateo Medical Center has collecte...

AIM focuses care on people with advanced illness, which often involves more than one chronic diag...

This article assesses the potential impact of P4P on national hospital disparities using a two-me...

This study found that pharmacist-led medication reconciliation in primary care settings identifie...

Children's Mercy Hospitals & ClinicsKansas City, MO265 Beds The Problem The patient population a...

This article discusses preliminary findings from the National Congress of American Indians Policy...

Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio, OpenNotes is being tested by...

The objective of this study was to describe health plan efforts to collect language data from its...

Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...