Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This report from the Department of Health and Human Services describes a plan to bolster implemen...

Here's a disheartening statistic from the National Cancer Institute: in the United States, white ...

Children diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities and behavior disorders need q...

Patients may be Christian, Jew, Muslim or of any other religious expression—at Lutheran Medical C...

The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...

The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...

The University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health and its Center for Health Litera...

The YWCA of Greater Milwaukee created a diversity training program focused on race and racism, in...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Geriatric Education Center  provides geriatric education ...

This study of Spanish-speaking rural Latinos with diabetes finds that Spanish fluency is independ...

In 2005, the University of Washington School of Medicine was awarded a grant from the National In...

Although, increasing diversity in the health care workforce and training health care providers to...

According to the Pew research center,  74 percent of all adults in the United States use the Inte...

Clinicians and health care providers incorporate evidence-based clinical interventions to improve...

The ADA committee at the Kaiser Woodland Hills facility was started in 2010 in an effort to compl...

Beginning in August 2007, the Arizona Department of Health Services' Health Disparities Center or...

Kaiser Permanente, as an integrated health care delivery system, has made significant progress to...

Today health disparities remain a constant challenge for immigrants, refugees and displaced popul...

This case study explores the process of accessing health care from the perspective of the immigra...

In order to deliver the highest quality and most appropriate health care, Georgia Health Sciences...

Transforming organizations, such as academic health centers or teaching hospitals, toward creatin...

A team was created to ensure that all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, language, disabilit...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

This report is part of a new effort to provide medical students with information about the patter...

It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...

AHVRP, a professional membership group of the AHA,  is the premier professional membership societ...

SHCA is a not-for-profit health care organization dedicated to serving those who advocate in the ...

Although Maryland enjoys the third highest median income in the United States, the state suffers ...

During this webinar, hear how AnMed Health is applying the principles of REaL (race, ethnicity an...

This web seminar highlighted improvements in staff training and building the culturally competent...

This paper examines successful approaches to delivering mental health treatment in primary care a...

This guide describes how HCAHPS data should be used in context with other information about organ...

My goal in this article is to use the laws of physics to help readers think in new ways about sha...

Improving quality of care can go hand in hand with eliminating disparities in care. University of...

The Joint Academy is a multidisciplinary team approach that begins in the community with orthoped...

Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

Summa Health SystemAkron, OH461 Beds The Problem Summa Health System serves a five county region...

This report provides a guide to conducting health impact assessments. It stresses the importance ...

This article discusses preliminary findings from the National Congress of American Indians Policy...

The objective of this study was to describe health plan efforts to collect language data from its...

In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conduc...

Representatives from Catholic Health Initiatives in Denver, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in...

In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...

This paper explores the current limits of primary care in the US, looks at illustrative models th...