Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Cigna’s Collaborative Accountable Care initiative provides financial incentives to physician grou...

Health care reform presents academic health centers with an opportunity to test new systems of ca...

The implementation of accountable care organizations, a new health care payment and delivery mode...

This cross-site comparison of the early experience of four provider organizations participating i...

HRET has been awarded a contract by CMS to support their Partnership for Patients campaign. PfP i...

The Florida Hospital Association is proud to recognize the 2012 Celebration of Achievement in Qua...

At the 2012 American Public Health Association annual meeting, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation spo...

Annual analysis of the health care of a record number of Americans by the National Committee for ...

One of the most vital strategies in the current health care environment is physician-hospital ali...

In an Oct. 17 webinar presented by Becker's Hospital Review, Scott Becker, a partner at McGuireWo...

Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...

Diabetes is among the ten leading causes of death in both white and African American patients, bu...

Using key metrics, MaineHealth gauges its impact on population health The board's challenge--wha...

Accelerating Care Integration Lack of care coordination and integration was identified as a majo...

This webinar introduces strategies to increase physical activity through community design.

Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...

The AHA is dedicated to highlighting the good work that America's hospitals are doing to care and...

America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, say...

Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...

“End of life care,” “serious illness” or “advanced illness” are some of the terms used to categor...

PLF hosted a session on achieving team-based health care delivery. David Nash, MD, founding dean ...

The Health Disparities Cancer Collaborative implemented six components of the chronic care model ...

This commentary was written by  Daren R. Anderson, MD, vice president and chief quality officer, ...

This article discusses how clinically at-risk and socially disadvantaged populations may not be f...

This toolkit presents Muskegon County's Community Health Needs Assessment  process and results, a...

Studies suggest that the presence of multiple chronic conditions (MCC) adds a layer of complexity...

UNC Hospitals is committed to providing a patient-centered care environment. A team of leaders is...

A collection of 10 short essays by the industry luminaries who have received HRET's TRUST Award s...

Partner's created the Center for Connected Health to promote technology-enabled innovations in te...

Kaiser maintains a number of operating units to identify and test innovations. The Center for Tot...

The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...

Quality is the first word that comes to mind when we talk about the American Hospital Association...

Fully two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. One-third of American children are overwei...

This chartpack offers a snapshot of some common strategies used to improve the quality of care th...

This article discusses divergent concepts of population health between care delivery systems and ...

Fairfield Memorial Hospital identified the need to improve the patient experience in the emergenc...

Rush-Copley Medical Center collaborated with the Kane County Health Department after an outbreak ...

A multidisciplinary team was developed with objectives to provide clear, easy to understand educa...

The OSF cardiac service line implemented a STEMI Improvement project to identify obstacles that c...

May 13-19 is National Women's Health Week, a project of the U.S. Health and Human Services' Offic...

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are forming in communities across the country. In ACOs, hea...

Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...

This guide provides hospital leaders with a snapshot of hospitals' current readiness to participa...

To meet patient needs in the current market, hospitals have traditionally focused their efforts o...

This webinar highlighted the essential elements within care coordination strategies for the dual ...

This statistic may surprise you: Mental health conditions and mood disorders including depression...

A key element of the PCMH model is engaging patients and caregivers in their care. This paper off...

This paper explores the current landscape of patient-centered medical home services for patients ...

HRET and the Commonwealth Fund reviewed research findings regarding the characteristics and proce...