Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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...

The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...

Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...

The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions designed to encourage greater coordination an...

In 2003 the Institute of Medicine called on health plans to collect data on their members  race a...

In a recent study, the non-profit Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. ranks 16th out of 16 nati...

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

The guide is a resource for those interested or already engaged in quality improvement initiative...

This site, sponsored by the Office of Minority Health, offers the latest resources and tools to p...

This 46-page document reviews the history of Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives and consi...

This report discussses the Center for Disease Control's involvement with Prevention Research Cent...

This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

The Diversity & Inclusion Council was developed to create and sustain an organizational culture t...

The St. Francis Medical Center Kitty DeGree Breast Health Center employs a full-time breast healt...

Regional Health Improvement Collaborative provides a neutral, trusted mechanism through which all...