Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

An intervention to prevent childhood obesity has blossomed into a communitywide effort led by a l...

Over the past 20 years, nursing homes have been undertaking a cultural transition to look and fee...

The Institute for Diversity in Health Management in collaboration with the AHA's Hospitals in Pur...

The link between hunger, food insecurity and poor health has been clearly acknowledged as a serio...

Hospitals and faith organizations are collaborating to improve health care outcomes and organize ...

A new report from MHA and Collaborative Healthcare Strategies— State of the State: Reducing Readm...

This HPOE webinar takes an in-depth look into how the Massachusetts Hospital Association develope...

St. Joseph Health, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a 208-bed hospital in Napa, California, is...

The new HPOE  guide “Triple Aim Strategies to Improve Behavioral Health Care” describes strategie...

The Baystate Health Breast and Wellness Center, created in 2013, is a combination of two premier ...

Four years ago this hospital had no clinical leadership development program. Physician leaders wi...

Through this initiative, Highland Healthcare Associates IPA seeks to improve the physician's expe...

Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Physician’s Organization implem...

As part of an effort to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognized ...

Boston Children’s Hospital and its associated pediatric primary care physicians organization coll...

The Care Tracker program at Signature Healthcare collates data from multiple sources, including b...

Many patients who find themselves in a situation where they are experiencing worsening symptoms o...

Diagnostic care for patients referred within the institution for suspicious lung lesions was vari...

Injectable extended-release formulation of naltrexone marketed as Vivitrol is a recent significan...

Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...

The School Based Care Coordination Program supports at-risk youth and families in two school dist...

For the past 30 years, the Healthcare for the Homeless Program has addressed the health needs of ...

The Integrated Care Management Program is a care manager collaborative created to ensure a smooth...

CDC data shows that over 70 percent of patients with pre-diabetes will develop type 2 diabetes du...

To meet a high demand for Chinese interpreters, the Tufts Medical Center Interpreter Services wor...

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...