Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

April is National Minority Health Month. In 2011, the AHA and four partners formed Equity of Care...

To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...

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, ...

Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...

Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, a 237-bed facility in Orlando, Florida, used best practices and peer-to...

Hospital Menonita de Aibonito, a 150-bed facility in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, used best practices a...

Hospital Menonita de Cayey, a 208-bed facility in Cayey, Puerto Rico, used best practices and pee...

Los Alamitos Medical Center, a 167-bed facility in Los Alamitos, California, used best practices ...

NCH Healthcare System, a 325-bed facility in Naples, Florida, started its journey to reduce harm ...

Ponca City Medical Center, a 140-bed facility in Ponca City, Oklahoma, used HEN best practices an...

Presence Saint Joseph Hospital, a 184-bed facility in Elgin, Illinois, examined quality metrics t...

St. Catherine Hospital, a 189-bed facility in East Chicago, Indiana, used best practices and peer...

St. John's Hospital, a 431-bed facility in Springfield, Illinois, used best practices and peer-to...

UConn John Dempsey Hospital, a 174-bed facility in Farmington, Connecticut, used best practices a...

University Hospitals, Cleveland, is advancing multiple care equity initiatives. The over 2,000-be...

This HPOE webinar, held in conjunction with the Institute for Diversity in Health Management, fea...

Read about how Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare developed a minority nusing program that identifies ...

Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...

This handy visual aid illustrates the main points from "2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Benchma...

Building a culture that is inclusive and founded on principles of diversity was a “key destinatio...

Based in the Pennsylvania cities of Allentown, Bethlehem and Hazleton, Lehigh Valley Health Netwo...

Baystate Health, based in Springfield, Mass., has two formal mentorship programs available to its...

The Minority Faculty Development Awards program at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cl...

The University of Mississippi Medical Center created a Healthcare Disparities Council with 40 mem...

Greenville Health System in South Carolina overhauled its leadership search and selection process...

Recognizing the need for diversity management, Sparrow Heatlh System in Lansing, Mich., hired a d...

The Institute for Diversity in Health Management's Summer Enrichment Program matches and places m...

California's Central Valley is known for its abundant fruits and vegetables; however, many famili...

The Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, a partner of the Brooklyn Health Disparities Center, ...

Increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of the nation's health professions workforce has many ...

The National Center for Health Care Leadership's diversity leadership demonstration project is th...

This HPOE webinar, held with the Institute for Diversity, highlights Henry Ford Health System, wh...

INTEGRIS Health is the largest Oklahoma-owned health care corporation. Its facilities cover the c...

This infographic provides a sample of the findings from the 2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Ben...

“Once a patient believes that you [the provider] understand them, we think the healing begins,” s...

Although rare and difficult to study, wrong-site surgery is a serious risk recognized by health c...

Three Illinois hospitals received recognition for “delivering quality with distinction” by the Il...

A national leader in health care equity, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has developed s...

This updated chartpack offers a snapshot of some common strategies used to improve the quality of...

The May 2014 edition of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved highlights lingui...

There is a need for greater understanding of the factors that lead to improved process quality an...

Providing world-class quality health care may seem an audacious goal for a small or rural hospita...

The 2014 AHA Chair-elect Jonathan  Perlin, MD, co-authored this paper and companion financial mod...

Founded in 1989, the Metro Community Provider Network is a nonprofit organization in the Denver M...

Pinnacle Health System Harrisburg, PA599 Beds The Problem Health systems are no longer simply as...

After more than a decade of war, many U.S. military service members have experienced an unprecede...

Reducing health care disparities is a growing national priority and state hospital associations a...

Focusing on strategies to improve quality, address disparities and achieve equity will be essenti...

At North Shore-LIJ Health System, teamwork is everywhere. This New York health system uses TeamST...

Research shows that when patients are engaged in their health care, it can lead to measurable imp...

A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...

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

Providing the very best care—the goal of all hospitals and care givers—must include an understand...

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

More than 64 million surgeries are performed annually in the United States. Preventing surgical s...

The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quali...

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

Greenville Health SystemGreenville, South Carolina786 Beds The Problem The diversity of the lead...

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

The University of Michigan Health System used lean management and the plan-do-check-act cycle to ...

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

The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Texas Health Institute developed a fr...

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

This case study explains Barnes-Jewish Hospital's approach to training it  4,100 team members thr...

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

In a society as culturally diverse as the United States, especially in New York City,  members of...

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

This case study describes an evidence-based residency program that applies to an international au...

The use of cross-cultural diversity forum isexamined. The forums use technology and tools to brin...

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

Since 2011, a series of narrated video slideshow presentations has been under development at  Har...

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

This case study looks at he Joint Commission's recommendation related to culturally and linguisti...

Little is known about the unique health needs and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans...

The University of Connecticut's community-based education program collaborated with community par...

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

n 2008, Barnes-Jewish Hospital center for diversity and cultural competence developed an 18-hourc...

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...

Many immigrant parents rely on their children to help them communicate as ad hoc interpreters in ...

There is often a lack of coordination among the various health and social systems that provide in...

Approximately 24 million people--8.5 percent of the U.S. population--are defined as having Limite...

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

Examples of and the rationale for strategies used to foster critical consciousness in the work of...

As the United States becomes increasingly diverse and as individuals choose to be more acculturat...

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

A commitment to diversity came first. That was followed by specific action projects to increase d...

This primer discusses community benefit laws across the United States, noting differences in fede...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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