Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

Palmetto Health has pursued multiple initiatives and strategies to promote a healthy community an...

Working with community organizations, including competitors, Palmetto Health is improving the hea...

There are opportunities around the country for dramatic innovation in the way health systems tran...

May 31 - June 6, 2015, is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health...

In addition to identifying priority health needs and aligning partners and resources to address c...

n 2013, San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center, Conejos County Hospital and five clinics officia...

The Muskegon Community Health Project, in partnership with Mercy Health Partners, is an inclusive...

Building a culture of health means ensuring all people have the opportunity to live productive, h...

Working with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this infographic summarizes the findings of a re...

Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. Victims are subjected to force, fraud or coercion ...

AnMed Health is a non-profit health system and the largest employer in Anderson County, South Car...

In 2006 the Board of Trustees of Greenville Health System (GHS) committed to develop a workforce ...

The Road to Better Health Spartanburg has proven that working collectively and in partnership wit...

This toolkit is a user-friendly “how-to” guide to help accelerate the elimination of health care ...

By focusing on preventive care and health promotion, hospitals are catalyzing change in their com...

As the U.S. health care system transforms, hospitals are playing a greater role in building a cul...

Truven Health Analytics discusses key areas of focus for hospitals and care systems that want to ...

In August 2014, Campbell County Health became the first health care facility in Wyoming to be app...

Creating a culture of health requires community partnerships with every major stakeholder contrib...

There is often confusion around what is meant by the term “population health.” HPOE and the Assoc...

Montefiore Medical Center's School Health Program is the largest and most comprehensive school-ba...

How is your hospital building a culture of health in the community? That is, a culture in which a...

Hospital-based Strategies for Creating a Culture of Health provides background on the Robert Wood...

With four hospitals and more than 120 employed medical providers, St. Charles Health System is a ...

Health care organizations are in varying stages of clinical and financial integration as they pur...

To address the widespread lack of access to basic health care, community health centers serve mor...

Improving population health is a must-do strategy in transforming health care delivery. Yale New ...

This issue brief continues the program’s examination of state-level community benefit oversight b...

As our nation's population becomes more diverse, health care organizations are continuously prese...

Continuing on the second-curve series, HPOE highlights the Second Curve of Population Health info...

Using a Community Needs Assessment, Morris Hospital, which serves 18 rural communities, identifie...

After identifying inequities with affordable access to primary care services and an uncoordinated...

Population health is receiving increased attention for its role in improving health care, specifi...

Moving from a volume-based payment model to a value-based payment model requires a new set of man...

The “second curve” of population health involves an integrated approach to improving patient and ...

As of March 2014, progress generally has been positive toward achieving the HP2020 targets for th...

This guide builds upon prior American Hospital Association reports that outline a road map for ho...

This infographic shows what 40-year-old Americans would pay for a second-lowest-cost silver excha...

A growing number of hospitals are engaged in community economic development, recognizing the impo...

This Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence guide explains the value of integrating physical and beha...

The statistics are staggering: The number of Americans diagnosed with diabetes has risen from 1.5...

Redefine. Partner. Integrate. Experiment. Specialize. Many hospitals and care systems are embarki...

Results from an Association for Community Health Improvement and American Hospital Association Su...

If you build a community of care, people will come. It happened when Middlesex Hospital, in Middl...

This article discusses opportunities for health care providers to leverage Affordable Care Act re...

This article discusses how using health adjusted life expectacy could bridge the gap between clin...

This article discusses the importance of a holistic approach to community development in order to...

October 6 – 12 is Mental Health Awareness Week. According to estimates, in the United States each...

After a decade of war and an unprecedented number of combat deployments, our service members, vet...

This guide includes two sections that address collection and use of patient race, ethnicity and l...

Newark Department of Child and Family Well-BeingNewark NJ The Problem In 2003, The Newark (N.J.)...

This articles explores how HealthPartners decided to target nonclinical determinants of populatio...

This toolkit provides a framework for creating interventions that promote the Healthy People 2020...

This article aims to define the term "healthy communities" based on existing literature on the to...

In California, about 16 percent of the adult population, more than 4 million people, have mental ...

This article discusses how six organizations in Oakland, Calif., used a health impact assessment ...

There is a growing need to improve health care, especially at the interface between general medic...

Everyone is talking “population health management,” and many health care organizations are succes...

Cultural competency in health care describes the ability of systems to provide care to patients w...

Being accessible only by airplane or boat adds to the scenic character of Wrangell, Alaska (popul...

No single organization can effectively address complex community health issues such as access to ...

To become an effective population health manager, a hospital must create effective partnerships. ...

June 2–8 is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health Improvement s...

Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health CenterWindsor, VT60 Beds The Problem Mt. Ascutney Hospital and ...

This report indentifies and explains guiding principles to inform the implementation ofCommunity ...

In 2008, Ellis Hospital launched a medical home at its Ellis Health Center campus. This initiativ...

Cheyenne Regional Medical Center and Cheyenne Health and Wellness Center partner on several initi...

Chambers County was designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration as one of the ...

Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, Jackson, Miss.– 633 beds– 3,000-plus employees In 1997, Miss...

ProMedica’s (NW Ohio and SE Michigan) mission is to improve the health and well-being of the peop...

This webinar examined best practices and lessons from the field on health care transformation ini...

"Metrics for the Second Curve of Health Care" expands on four strategies originally identified in...

The AHA's Committee on Research developed the report, "Engaging Health Care Users: A Framework fo...

Collective Impact is the commitment of a group of actors from different sectors to a common agend...