Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Infants born to mothers electively at a gestational age of 37-39 weeks are more likely to develop...

Does your hospital huddle? Staff in the medical-surgical unit at Fairbanks (AK) Memorial Hospital...

The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...

Today we need leaders who can help address the challenges and maximize the tremendous opportuniti...

Written by HRET staff member Cynthia Hedges Greising and AHA-NPSF Comprehensive Patient Safety Fe...

The AHA’s framework for health reform, Health for Life, embraces the need to engage patients and ...

From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and fa...

From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and fa...

Central line-associated bloodstream infections cause serious illness and death. Front-line caregi...

The 2012 AHA Committee on Performance Improvement focused on advanced illness management. Well-de...

Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...

Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...

Webinars and presentations from the New England Health Impact Assessment Training Series in 2012.

Year after year, America’s hospitals respond to meet pressing community health care needs. In 200...

What is it? The RXAssistance Patient Assistance Program initiative began in 2005 as a collaborati...

The program director created the Individuals Combining Activity and Nutrition (ICAN) pilot progra...

Platte County holds free birthing classes for expectant parents three times per year in January, ...

Healthy Woman is a community that empowers women with the confidence to make informed health care...

The Sharps Disposal Program offers a safe way for diabetics or anyone using medical sharps to dis...

St. John?s Institute for Cognitive Health and the University of Utah Center for Alzheimer?s Care,...

In 2007, Cheyenne Regional lent its name, planning/advocacy staff, and financial resources to par...

he camp, a collaboration with Area Health Education Center (AHEC) and the University of Wyoming C...

Southcentral FoundationAnchorage, AK150 beds A nonprofit health care organization owned by the A...

Methodist Le Bonheur HealthcareMemphis, TN1,321 Beds The Congregational Health Network is a part...

Griffin HospitalDerby, CT160 Beds Griffin Hospital is the flagship hospital for Planetree, Inc.,...

Cambridge Health AllianceCambridge, MA229 Beds Cambridge Health Alliance is an integrated health...

Kaiser PermanenteOakland, CAKaiser Permanente is a health care provider and nonprofit health plan...

Georgia Health Sciences Health Augusta, GA632 Beds Georgia Health Sciences Health System consist...

Bellin Health SystemGreen Bay, WI Bellin Health System is a nonprofit integrated health care del...

Sentara HealthcareNorfolk, VA Sentara Healthcare is a nonprofit health care system headquartered...

Saint Elizabeth’s Medical CenterWabasha, MN25 Beds Saint Elizabeth’s Medical Center, part of Min...

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...

Informed Medical Decisions FoundationBoston, MAThe Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, founded...

Emory HealthcareAtlanta, GA Emory Healthcare, a large academic teaching system, deployed a patie...

Atlantic Health SystemNew Jersey1,308 Beds Atlantic Health System owns and operates Morristown M...

Geisinger Health SystemDanville, PA545 Beds Geisinger Health System is an integrated health serv...

Howard University HospitalWashington, DC266 Beds Howard University Hospital is a private, nonpro...

Ryhov HospitalJönköping, Sweden Ryhov Hospital is a county hospital in Jönköping, Sweden, with a...

Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders were at a higher risk of po...

This book provides practical skills for building communities. Chapters three, four and five addre...

This website provides a wealth of resources on CommunityHealth Needs Assessment and the related I...

This report details the Institute of Medicine's roundtable on population health improvement and d...

This report discusses strategies to help health care leaders prioritize three foundational elemen...

This report identifies steps that policy, public health and community stakeholders can take to pr...

Use this tool to assess whether your health-related organization or system, or coalition of organ...

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

This second report in this series expands and explains all three strategies and focuses on patien...

During 2012, despite economic challenges, hospitals and health care systems throughout the United...

The Community Guide is a resource for evidence-based task force recommendations and findings abou...

43,750: That’s the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates wo...

The conclusion of H&HN's yearlong series on hospital, community and national efforts to identify ...

What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...

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

What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...

As the U.S. population ages and the number of Americans impacted by obesity and diabetes increase...

The move from volume- to value-based care has profound implications for those who design, build a...

This articles argues that now is the time to integrate public health and primary care in a way th...

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

In August 2010, the Center for Transforming Healthcare launched its fourth project which aims to ...

The 2012 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality award winners and finalists are highlighted in this webin...

One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...

A central goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to significantly reduce the n...

The November issue of Trustee magazine delves into hospital mergers with a cover article featurin...

Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

A key objective of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's new reimbursement and payment...

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

Among California's African American, Native American, Latino and Hmong populations, a diagnosis o...

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

Physicians' steady interest in hospital employment — a trend that has accelerated in recent years...

The Affordable Care Act and state Medicaid reform efforts present opportunities to reengineer hea...

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

 For baby boomers, the peak interest in health issues comes at about age 51, with a second peak c...

Now, more than ever, hospitals and health system CEOs cannot sit on their hands as new care deliv...

The AMA Principles for Physician Employment are intended to help physicians, those who employ phy...

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

Assisted living facilities allow residents to "age in place" by adjusting their level of care and...

Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

In an era of team-based care, nurses are increasingly taking on new leadership roles. Beatrice Ka...

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

The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...

A monograph from the Association of American Medical Colleges, in partnership with the Institute ...

This how-to guide describes the essentials elements of preventing obstetrical adverse events, inc...

Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...

Joint ventures between investor-owned and nonprofit health care organizations are not new; in fac...

Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems...

Three hazards involve health IT system-related technologies While today's health technology adva...

This article explores eight of the most challenging and interesting issues that hospital leaders ...

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

As the patient-centered medical home model gains momentum, providers must strike a balance betwee...

Bernard J. Tyson, a Kaiser Permanente employee and leader for 28 years and its chief operating of...

"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

Efforts to improve U.S. health care must include payment reforms that encourage greater efficienc...

"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

The mobile app from HPOE will ensure you receive up-to-date alerts when new HPOE guides are relea...

For the last century, the major causes of disease and death among Americans have changed, shiftin...

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

Bundled payments are becoming more attractive to the health care industry as providers learn that...

Health plans and Medicare are using cost profiles to identify which physicians account for more h...