Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This report identifies steps that policy, public health and community stakeholders can take to pr...

In 2012 the AHA Committee on Research focused on actively engaging health care users to improve o...

The conclusion of H&HN's yearlong series on hospital, community and national efforts to identify ...

Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...

The Affordable Care Act and state Medicaid reform efforts present opportunities to reengineer hea...

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...

At the 2012 American Public Health Association annual meeting, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation spo...

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

Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...

America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, say...

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

PLF hosted a session on achieving team-based health care delivery. David Nash, MD, founding dean ...

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

This discussion paper analyzes factors that attribute to  better outcomes at lower costs. The aut...

After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

Roseland Community Hospital joined the Illinois Foundation for Quality Healthcare, the quality im...

Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

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...

In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

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...

Achieving health care equity and eliminating health care disparities are a top goal of hospitals ...

Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...

In 2005, North Shore University Hospital's president and chief executive officer made a commitmen...

The Brooklyn Hospital Center Family Medicine Department made a commitment to improve the quality ...

Adventist HealthCareRockville, Maryland1,045 Beds The Problem Adventist HealthCare created the C...

Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

Ten existential questions will make the difference between limping into the future and soaring to...

Representatives from Catholic Health Initiatives in Denver, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in...

"App" and "austerity" were among the 2010 "words of the year" named by a dialect society and dict...

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

In the United States, there has been a growing health care divide between vulnerable populations ...

Vermont begins building a single-payer health system that will move many state residents into a p...

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

In this article, the author argues that health equity is best achieved by securing access to high...

This article proposes an examination of health disparities through the lens of public health to p...

The Rand Health Insurance Experiment found that patients had little or no control over their hea...

Reining in health care costs has become a central policy challenge for government and a pressing ...

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

This sponsored supplement explores the challenges of investing for lower-cost devices, services a...

The latest Alliance issue brief reports on how collaboratives are working at the local level to i...

The report defines the meaning of value in health care, provides an overview of the current state...

Why Is Focusing On Preventable Mortality Important?Hospital leaders work hard every day to provid...

 The purpose of this guide is to provide hospitals with a resource to help reduce inappropriate v...

A key ingredient for success under health care reform will be the ability to utilize health infor...

The guide is designed to serve as a quick, simple resource by outlining four steps: Examine yo...