Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

At Boston Medical Center, a multidisciplinary team developed a strategy to reduce pulmonary compl...

With the national focus on decreasing hospital-acquired infections, Massachusetts General Hospita...

At Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, the pediatric intensive care unit has been implem...

Dedicated to eliminating catheter-associated urinary tract infections, North Shore Medical Center...

MOU—Mobile Observation Unit—provides home-based urgent care for patients experiencing at-risk med...

Approximately 28 percent of the hospital's patients with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) are readm...

Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) account for 30-40 percent of the organizati...

T4P/BREATHE is an inter-professional project created in response to improving patient outcomes an...

The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...

A collaborative network of hospitals and community organizations is improving behavioral health c...

To effectively identify racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care, it is essential ...

Hospitals and health care systems are striving to achieve the Triple Aim—improving the patient ex...

Sanpete Valley Hospital, a critical access hospital in Mount Pleasant, Utah, is leading behaviora...

The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) released the Nurse Executive Competencies: P...

To address disparities in health care outcomes, Main Line Health is proactively addressing socioe...

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals that demonstrate progress in achieving ...

More and more hospitals and health systems are leading community collaborations to create positiv...

The largest drivers of disease in populations are unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, unhealthy...

The Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina is an unprecedented volunteer collaboration of more t...

This case study presents the story of CareSouth Carolina and the Northeastern Rural Health Networ...

Since 2007, The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Psychiatry Residency program has help...

CDMHC’s innovative programs divert hundreds of patients from the hospitals and emergency departme...

Cultural competency is critical to reducing health care disparities and improving access to high-...

  Violence is a serious safety issue for many communities and hospitals across the United States...

This HPOE webinar highlights innovations for eliminating health care disparities and will feature...

  For more than two decades, health services researchers have been using statewide hospital disc...

It is certain that health status is profoundly influenced by the places in which people live, wor...

More than 90 percent of U.S. hospitals are committed to population health. This is according to a...

In July of 2009, Olean General Hospital embarked on a journey to improve outcomes for cardiac pat...

Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...

Hypertension—the silent killer—impacts more than one in three Americans and is a leading cause of...

Education that increases awareness is one of the best ways to transform health outcomes. But, as ...

To support hospitals embarking on their population health journey, the Health Research & Educatio...

As hospitals expand their focus on providing equitable care, attention on those who are lesbian, ...

Virtual Health Village is a health information exchange for sharing secure, up-to-date student he...

Apps and iPads are tools of choice for improving the health of Pennsylvania schoolchildren. Lehig...

The Heathcare Association of New York State announced its 2015 Community Health Improvement award...

A population health initiative in Rochester, New York, is bringing together two health care syste...

Massachusetts General Hospital's (MGH) 2012 community health needs assessment, in which communiti...

Leadership is needed to direct resources and programs aimed at reducing health care disparitities...

Two health care systems and more than 20 community organizations are improving the health and wel...

Diversity is becoming a key word in health care. Hospitals and health care systems are focusing o...

In 2008, the two hospital systems partnered with the city of Whittier, the YMCA of Greater Whitti...

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

Palmetto Health has pursued multiple initiatives and strategies to promote a healthy community an...

Working with community organizations, including competitors, Palmetto Health is improving the hea...

After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...

HPOE has teamed up with the Illinois Hospital Association to highlight its yearly quality awards....

July 2009-October 2011 baseline data for the blood culture contamination rate in the ED showed it...

There are opportunities around the country for dramatic innovation in the way health systems tran...

The CDC features a new website featuring prevention training, tools and tips for prevention pract...

May 31 - June 6, 2015, is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health...

Patient engagement is paramount to reducing readmissions and improving quality of life. That’s wh...

HPOE and Leavitt Partners worked in collaboration to detail how accountable care organizations (A...

In addition to identifying priority health needs and aligning partners and resources to address c...

In January 2011, utilizing the hospital’s system-wide electronic medical records, a family medici...

n 2013, San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center, Conejos County Hospital and five clinics officia...

Learning, sharing resources and discussing projects on cutting-edge topics in health care transfo...

Cox Health System's (Springfield, Mo.) medical leadership created a list of medical indications t...

Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...

The Muskegon Community Health Project, in partnership with Mercy Health Partners, is an inclusive...

The hospital recognized an urgent need to improve the current rate of colorectal cancer screening...

Ascension Health created a business unit called Transformational Development. It is charged with ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs home-based primary care  began in 1972.  Home-based primary ca...

 Hospital leaders struggle to provide effective care coordination to vulnerable populations. In 2...

The country’s highest presidential honor for performance excellence through innovation, improveme...

When hospitals care for victims of violence, it provides a window of opportunity to interrupt the...

Hospitals and care systems are uniquely positioned to play an integral role preventing violence i...

Building a culture of health means ensuring all people have the opportunity to live productive, h...

Working with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this infographic summarizes the findings of a re...

Working toward the Triple Aim of better care, better health and lower cost means achieving the go...

Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. Victims are subjected to force, fraud or coercion ...

AnMed Health is a non-profit health system and the largest employer in Anderson County, South Car...

The Human Services Alliance of Beaufort County is one of the oldest coalitions for health improve...

In 2006 the Board of Trustees of Greenville Health System (GHS) committed to develop a workforce ...

The Road to Better Health Spartanburg has proven that working collectively and in partnership wit...

Partnering in 2014, the AHA Committee on Research and AHA Committee on Performance Improvement fo...

This toolkit is a user-friendly “how-to” guide to help accelerate the elimination of health care ...

U.S. hospitals aree xploring what it means to be a hospital in a rapidly transforming health care...

By focusing on preventive care and health promotion, hospitals are catalyzing change in their com...

As the U.S. health care system transforms, hospitals are playing a greater role in building a cul...

Truven Health Analytics discusses key areas of focus for hospitals and care systems that want to ...

What is it? Now in its third year, Camp Med is a three-day, hands-on experience at the hospital t...

In August 2014, Campbell County Health became the first health care facility in Wyoming to be app...

Read about the many programs that Novant Health has developed around leadership diversity includi...

Creating a culture of health requires community partnerships with every major stakeholder contrib...

Change can be uncomfortable. But no matter how sophisticated, hospitals and health care systems n...

In order to achieve the Triple Aim, hospital leaders must implement strategies to achieve the Sec...

Matching patients with primary care physicians was top priority of this project improvement by th...

Matching patients with primary care physicians was top priority of this project improvement by th...

Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, worked to create a highly reliable system for follow up ...

Norwegian American Hospital, Chicago, improved both influenza and pneumococcal vaccination rates ...

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...

Montefiore Medical Center's School Health Program is the largest and most comprehensive school-ba...

How is your hospital building a culture of health in the community? That is, a culture in which a...

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...