Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Equity of Care Webinar SeriesPart 2: Aligning Diversity and Inclusion, Community Engagement, Busi...

Equity of Care Webinar SeriesPart 1: Aligning Diversity and Inclusion, Community Engagement, Busi...

“Transportation and the Role of Hospitals” is part of a series of guides and resources released b...

HRET and Million Hearts® hosted a webinar on cardiac rehabilitation (CR), a comprehensive seconda...

Schuyler Hospital’s Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Schuyler initiative offers various opport...

This compendium features detailed descriptions of hospital-community partnerships from across the...

It has become widely known that effective hospital-community partnerships are necessary in buildi...

“Housing and the Role of Hospitals” is the second guide released by the AHA, HRET and ACHI as par...

Advancing population health involves fostering effective and sustainable hospital-community partn...

As part of our work to Advance Health in America, the AHA, HRET and ACHI are launching a series o...

Though health care professionals at hospitals work tirelessly to help patients get and stay healt...

The American Hospital Association and the Health Research & Educational Trust are working to supp...

On May 7, 2017, I swore an oath to become the 118th chairman of the American Hospital Association...

The work of a Washington D.C. collaborative of hospitals and FQHCs is benefiting the entire commu...

The next generation of community health will serve as the foundation for total population health....

Community health initiatives that start with small successes can lead to bigger changes. St. Cath...

The 2017 chair files will begin highlighting efforts that are improving community health beyond t...

The Association for Healthcare Volunteer Resource Professionals created a guide to help hospitals...

The 2016 chairman's columns have focused on  inspiring stories about hospitals and health systems...

Increasingly, hospitals and health systems are forming partnerships to attain the new and demandi...

Hospitals can create a culture of health in their own organization and in the community by develo...

As consumers increasingly rely on information and reviews from a variety of sources to access all...

This health system's employee influenza vaccination policy compliance rate was less than 70 perce...

The Community Health Network (CHN) targets the socioeconomic determinants of health that are not ...

Effective and sustainable hospital-community partnerships are critical to building a Culture of H...

This HPOE guide, developed by Kaufman Hall, provides key considerations in partnering for populat...

Community health needs assessments—CHNAs—are becoming a driver of community collaborations and a ...

This guide features case studies of the 2015 Foster G. McGaw Prize winner and finalists. These ex...

Hospitals and communities are increasingly recognizing the importance of effective partnerships w...

Hospitals and health systems continually push to improve the health of their communities. Massach...

Demand for Brockton Neighborhood Health Center (BNHC) accelerated after it started in 1994 as a m...

Codman Square Health Center in downtown Dorchester, MA exemplifies how a health center can build ...

North Country HealthCare is a federally qualified health center serving fourteen communities in n...

Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) have the potential to be powerful drivers to enhance t...

This AHA report provides a review of the current state for the behavioral health workforce, outli...

The Institute for Diversity in Health Management in collaboration with the AHA's Hospitals in Pur...

The link between hunger, food insecurity and poor health has been clearly acknowledged as a serio...

Hospitals and faith organizations are collaborating to improve health care outcomes and organize ...

St. Joseph Health, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a 208-bed hospital in Napa, California, is...

The Baystate Health Breast and Wellness Center, created in 2013, is a combination of two premier ...

Four years ago this hospital had no clinical leadership development program. Physician leaders wi...

The Care Tracker program at Signature Healthcare collates data from multiple sources, including b...

Diagnostic care for patients referred within the institution for suspicious lung lesions was vari...

Injectable extended-release formulation of naltrexone marketed as Vivitrol is a recent significan...

To meet a high demand for Chinese interpreters, the Tufts Medical Center Interpreter Services wor...

With the national focus on decreasing hospital-acquired infections, Massachusetts General Hospita...

Dedicated to eliminating catheter-associated urinary tract infections, North Shore Medical Center...

MOU—Mobile Observation Unit—provides home-based urgent care for patients experiencing at-risk med...

To effectively identify racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care, it is essential ...

Sanpete Valley Hospital, a critical access hospital in Mount Pleasant, Utah, is leading behaviora...

The Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina is an unprecedented volunteer collaboration of more t...

Since 2007, The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Psychiatry Residency program has help...

CDMHC’s innovative programs divert hundreds of patients from the hospitals and emergency departme...

A population health initiative in Rochester, New York, is bringing together two health care syste...

Diversity is becoming a key word in health care. Hospitals and health care systems are focusing o...

In 2008, the two hospital systems partnered with the city of Whittier, the YMCA of Greater Whitti...

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

After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...

Patient engagement is paramount to reducing readmissions and improving quality of life. That’s wh...

In January 2011, utilizing the hospital’s system-wide electronic medical records, a family medici...

Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...

The hospital recognized an urgent need to improve the current rate of colorectal cancer screening...

Ascension Health created a business unit called Transformational Development. It is charged with ...

 Hospital leaders struggle to provide effective care coordination to vulnerable populations. In 2...

Hospitals and care systems are uniquely positioned to play an integral role preventing violence i...

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...

U.S. hospitals aree xploring what it means to be a hospital in a rapidly transforming health care...

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

Read about the many programs that Novant Health has developed around leadership diversity includi...

Change can be uncomfortable. But no matter how sophisticated, hospitals and health care systems n...

In order to achieve the Triple Aim, hospital leaders must implement strategies to achieve the Sec...

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

The foundation of all efforts to identify disparities, improve quality, achieve equity and delive...

Together with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, HRET shared the results of a survey that stu...

This article highlights the success of a pilot project between Park Nicollet hospital, St. Louis ...

Care for people with multiple chronic health conditions is often fragmented, resulting in increas...

Only 20 percent  of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients at the hospital were properly ...

Only 20 percent  of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients at the hospital were properly ...

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

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...

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...

National Hospital Week celebrates the men and women working in U.S. hospitals and care systems wh...

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

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...

In 2005, Guernsey County in rural Ohio had the state’s second worst late-stage colon cancer rates...

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

The community guide is a resource to help hospitals and community organizations choose programs t...

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

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

Fletcher Allen Health Care's  Community Benefit CommitteeBurlington, VT About the Initiative:In ...

This brief focuses on updating significant points concerning community health needs assessment an...

Learn from the best of the best. The 2013 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize® recipients will s...

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

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

Only a small percentage of patients develop a health care-associated infection after surgery, and...