Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

According to the Pew research center,  74 percent of all adults in the United States use the Inte...

Clinicians and health care providers incorporate evidence-based clinical interventions to improve...

The ADA committee at the Kaiser Woodland Hills facility was started in 2010 in an effort to compl...

Little is known about the unique health needs and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans...

Beginning in August 2007, the Arizona Department of Health Services' Health Disparities Center or...

The University of Connecticut's community-based education program collaborated with community par...

The Cancer Legal Resource Center, joint program of the Disability Rights Legal Center and Loyola ...

Kaiser Permanente, as an integrated health care delivery system, has made significant progress to...

African American older adults are at greater risk of depression due to the higher incidence of ch...

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...

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

As the United States becomes increasingly diverse and as individuals choose to be more acculturat...

The driving principle behind the outpatient service excellence journey is excellent customer serv...

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

A commitment to diversity came first. That was followed by specific action projects to increase d...

This primer discusses community benefit laws across the United States, noting differences in fede...

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...

In 2012 the AHA Committee on Research focused on actively engaging health care users to improve o...

In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...

Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...

Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

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

Palliative care specializes in taking care of patients with serious illness and focuses on provid...

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

At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients the...

Kaiser Permanente developed a home-based model of palliative care that uses an interdisciplinary ...

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

Acute care hospitals have been establishing palliative programs at a rapid pace; the United States n...

AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

AHVRP, a professional membership group of the AHA,  is the premier professional membership societ...

At-large members are individuals in health care with an interest in the activities of the AHA and...

SHCA is a not-for-profit health care organization dedicated to serving those who advocate in the ...

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

Secondary analysis of data from two studies examining palliative care in rural areas was conducte...

The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...

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...

This web seminar provided participants with information about diversity management, cultural comp...

Mayo Clinic has four operating unites to create new tools, processes and businesses. The Division...

Among the agencies that have made a substantial effort toward competency is the Nursing Home Ombu...

As part of Franciscan St. James Health's commitment to improve the surgery processes, the hospita...

This web seminar highlighted improvements in staff training and building the culturally competent...

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 guide describes how HCAHPS data should be used in context with other information about organ...