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One out of five Americans, or over 40 million people, struggle with behavioral health each day. I...
Adirondack Health is working with multiple sectors of the community, such as the Franklin County ...
MedEx Bedside Prescription Delivery is the very first bedside medication delivery service for hos...
Ten years ago, Mercy began telemedicine in its ICUs to improve patient outcomes. Today the St. Lo...
When outpatients at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, were frequently getting lost on their way to app...
To address disparities in health care outcomes, Main Line Health is proactively addressing socioe...
More and more hospitals and health systems are leading community collaborations to create positiv...
Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...
Hospitals strive to achieve the Triple Aim. This collection of case studies features three exampl...
Each year more than one million patients in the United States are diagnosed with sepsis, a condit...
Kennedy Health Decreases Sepsis BackgroundKennedy Health is an integrated health delivery system...
In accord with their commitment to equity of care and leadership diversity, hospitals and health ...
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...
Education that increases awareness is one of the best ways to transform health outcomes. But, as ...
This year's winners of Health Care's Most Wired Survey are employing information technology to he...
Apps and iPads are tools of choice for improving the health of Pennsylvania schoolchildren. Lehig...
Addressing the complex needs of older patients and their caregivers is the focus of the Bridge Mo...
The work to advance health care equity is always evolving, always improving at Henry Ford Health ...
A population health initiative in Rochester, New York, is bringing together two health care syste...
This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...
Diversity is becoming a key word in health care. Hospitals and health care systems are focusing o...
This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...
The concept of the Triple Aim is widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...
Working with community organizations, including competitors, Palmetto Health is improving the hea...
Palmetto Health has pursued multiple initiatives and strategies to promote a healthy community an...
The AHA and the American Medical Association collaborated on this paper to present both physician...
Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...
Scorecards aren’t just for baseball and boxing. Health care leaders are using scorecards to track...
Cox Health System's (Springfield, Mo.) medical leadership created a list of medical indications t...
Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...
Ascension Health created a business unit called Transformational Development. It is charged with ...
The Problem--Emergency departments were at capacity or beyond it, extending wait times. This resu...
The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...
This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, ...
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...
University Hospitals, Cleveland, is advancing multiple care equity initiatives. The over 2,000-be...
Change can be uncomfortable. But no matter how sophisticated, hospitals and health care systems n...
Building a culture that is inclusive and founded on principles of diversity was a “key destinatio...
Community members are integral partners at Lehigh Valley Health Network in Pennsylvania, helping ...
Preventing falls has been in the news recently, and with good reason: Among older adults, falls a...
With four hospitals and more than 120 employed medical providers, St. Charles Health System is a ...
Take best practices from two industries focused on safety and reliability—nuclear power and aviat...
Whether cheering for soccer, tennis, baseball, softball or another sport, fans no doubt have witn...
If you build a community of care, people will come. It happened when Middlesex Hospital, in Middl...
October 6 – 12 is Mental Health Awareness Week. According to estimates, in the United States each...
Southeastern Health, Lumberton, N.C. 452 beds 16,000 impatient admissions 76,000 emergency d...
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare (Glendale, Wis.) 11 hospitals, 70 clinic sites, three long-term ...
A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...
It is both a sprint and a marathon.” That's how a team at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor,...
Doctors Hospital of Manteca/Tenet HealthcareManteca, CABeds: 73 The ProblemRealizing high-alert ...
How do you successfully integrate behavioral health and primary care? A recent HPOE webinar highl...
Providing quality care for patients with limited English proficiency can be challenging, even for...
June 2–8 is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health Improvement s...
The Backyard Initiative at Allina Health, based in Minnesota, is truly taking care beyond hospita...
Greenville Health SystemGreenville, South Carolina786 Beds The Problem The diversity of the lead...
A commitment to diversity came first. That was followed by specific action projects to increase d...
Infants born to mothers electively at a gestational age of 37-39 weeks are more likely to develop...
The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...
From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and fa...
Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...
Atlantic Health SystemNew Jersey1,308 Beds Atlantic Health System owns and operates Morristown M...
Bellin Health SystemGreen Bay, WI Bellin Health System is a nonprofit integrated health care del...
Emory HealthcareAtlanta, GA Emory Healthcare, a large academic teaching system, deployed a patie...
Geisinger Health SystemDanville, PA545 Beds Geisinger Health System is an integrated health serv...
Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...
Kaiser PermanenteOakland, CAKaiser Permanente is a health care provider and nonprofit health plan...
43,750: That’s the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates wo...
Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...
"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...
Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...
Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...
Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...
Health care professionals at Henry Ford Health System know how to connect with teenagers. About 1...
Kaiser maintains a number of operating units to identify and test innovations. The Center for Tot...
Mayo Clinic has four operating unites to create new tools, processes and businesses. The Division...
It?s estimated that patients remember and understand about half of the information they receive f...
Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...
The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...
Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...
Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...
For 18 years, Community House Calls, a UW Medicine program of Harborview Medical Center in Seattl...
Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...
Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...
Adventist HealthCareRockville, Maryland1,045 Beds The Problem Adventist HealthCare created the C...
Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital's quality management team, led by the outcomes manager, part...
Barnes-Jewish HospitalSt. Louis, MO1,305 Beds The Problem Barnes-Jewish Hospital created the Cen...
The fall intervention program identified areas needing improvement including a lack of multidisci...
Baylor Health Care SystemDallas, TX3,653 Beds The Problem The Baylor Health Care System Office o...
Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...
Improving patient flow throughout the Bon Secours Charity Health System is critical to patient sa...
Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...
Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...
Continuum Health Partners' pay-for performance program (P4P) is designed to partner with physici...
Anticoagulants have been identified as one of the top five medication classes associated with pat...
As the new operations manager of Delaware Valley Hospital's primary care centers began her assess...
Good Samaritan Hospital's Clinical Transformation Team guided the formation of a Ventilator-Assoc...
An unprecedented cluster of infant falls from post-cesarean section mothers' arms sparked the mat...
Health Quest uses and benefits from a system wide root cause analysis policy to address adverse a...