Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

There is often confusion around what is meant by the term “population health.” HPOE and the Assoc...

Albany Medical Center developed the Child Advocacy Resident Education program that aims to improv...

This guide provides a framework for hospitals and care systems to stratify patient race, ethnicit...

The Employee Flu Immunization Campaign Kit is designed to help hospitals, nursing homes, and othe...

Hospital-based Strategies for Creating a Culture of Health provides background on the Robert Wood...

The foundation of all efforts to identify disparities, improve quality, achieve equity and delive...

Equity of Care, in collaboration with the Institute for Diversity in Health Management is featuri...

Together with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, HRET shared the results of a survey that stu...

The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...

This article highlights the success of a pilot project between Park Nicollet hospital, St. Louis ...

To address the widespread lack of access to basic health care, community health centers serve mor...

This issue brief continues the program’s examination of state-level community benefit oversight b...

After identifying inequities with affordable access to primary care services and an uncoordinated...

Population health is receiving increased attention for its role in improving health care, specifi...

This article found that county characteristics are independently associated with higher hospital ...

A growing number of hospitals are engaged in community economic development, recognizing the impo...

The statistics are staggering: The number of Americans diagnosed with diabetes has risen from 1.5...

Preventing hospital-acquired infections, reducing surgical complications and reducing readmission...

Results from an Association for Community Health Improvement and American Hospital Association Su...

The community guide is a resource to help hospitals and community organizations choose programs t...

This HPOE presentation highlights the business imperative for equity of care.  As the health care...

This article discusses opportunities for health care providers to leverage Affordable Care Act re...

This article discusses the importance of a holistic approach to community development in order to...

Focusing on strategies to improve quality and achieve health care equity is a growing national pr...

This report highlights nearly 80 evidence-based disease and injury prevention programs. These pro...

This brief focuses on updating significant points concerning community health needs assessment an...

Patients are becoming empowered. As health care consumers, they are reviewing publicly available ...

Learn from the best of the best. The 2013 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize® recipients will s...

After a decade of war and an unprecedented number of combat deployments, our service members, vet...

This guide includes two sections that address collection and use of patient race, ethnicity and l...

Newark Department of Child and Family Well-BeingNewark NJ The Problem In 2003, The Newark (N.J.)...

Million Hearts is a national initiative to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2017. I...

This articles explores how HealthPartners decided to target nonclinical determinants of populatio...

This article aims to define the term "healthy communities" based on existing literature on the to...

The case study addresses a hospital-based tobacco cessation initiative that serves patients regar...

The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...

To become an effective population health manager, a hospital must create effective partnerships. ...

June 2–8 is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health Improvement s...

Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health CenterWindsor, VT60 Beds The Problem Mt. Ascutney Hospital and ...

Yuma District HospitalYuma, CO12 Beds The Problem Yuma District Hospital, located in Yuma, Color...

This report indentifies and explains guiding principles to inform the implementation ofCommunity ...

In 2008, Ellis Hospital launched a medical home at its Ellis Health Center campus. This initiativ...

Cheyenne Regional Medical Center and Cheyenne Health and Wellness Center partner on several initi...

Young children who missed more than half of recommended well-child visits had up to twice the ris...

Chambers County was designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration as one of the ...

Concord (N.H.) Hospital • 230-bed regional medical center • 17,194 admissions • 295 medical staff...

Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, Jackson, Miss.– 633 beds– 3,000-plus employees In 1997, Miss...

This webinar examined best practices and lessons from the field on health care transformation ini...

 HPOE is pleased to highlight case studies from the Illinois Hospital Association’s Institute f...

This webinar from Health Resources in Action discusses the benefits of hospital-community collabo...

To help those with reading and language challenges, UVA Health System staff developed a curriculu...

The Illinois Department of Public Health, Center for Minority Services is using mobile messaging ...

The Tool for Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments program seeks to enable raising com...

Project Perlas is a community-based participatory research project addressing disparities in mamm...

Neighborhood and environment are important determinants of health in addition to individual chara...

Effective care transitions programs can do more than improve patient care: patients learn to mana...

Development of a Norwood Clinic allowed the quality improvement team to create goals to decrease ...

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

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

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,...

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

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

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

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...

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...

 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...

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

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

Medicaid is the nation's health coverage program for the low-income population, covering , more t...

For the  last 15 years, public hospitals have pursued multiple strategies to help maintain financ...

Cigna’s Collaborative Accountable Care initiative provides financial incentives to physician grou...

Health care reform presents academic health centers with an opportunity to test new systems of ca...

This cross-site comparison of the early experience of four provider organizations participating i...

HRET has been awarded a contract by CMS to support their Partnership for Patients campaign. PfP i...

The Florida Hospital Association is proud to recognize the 2012 Celebration of Achievement in Qua...

Annual analysis of the health care of a record number of Americans by the National Committee for ...

One of the most vital strategies in the current health care environment is physician-hospital ali...

In an Oct. 17 webinar presented by Becker's Hospital Review, Scott Becker, a partner at McGuireWo...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...

Diabetes is among the ten leading causes of death in both white and African American patients, bu...

Using key metrics, MaineHealth gauges its impact on population health The board's challenge--wha...

This webinar introduces strategies to increase physical activity through community design.

The AHA is dedicated to highlighting the good work that America's hospitals are doing to care and...

The Health Disparities Cancer Collaborative implemented six components of the chronic care model ...

This commentary was written by  Daren R. Anderson, MD, vice president and chief quality officer, ...

This toolkit presents Muskegon County's Community Health Needs Assessment  process and results, a...

Studies suggest that the presence of multiple chronic conditions (MCC) adds a layer of complexity...

Quality is the first word that comes to mind when we talk about the American Hospital Association...

Fully two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. One-third of American children are overwei...

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

This article discusses divergent concepts of population health between care delivery systems and ...

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are forming in communities across the country. In ACOs, hea...

This guide provides hospital leaders with a snapshot of hospitals' current readiness to participa...