Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

As one of only two hospitals in Yuma County, Yuma District Hospital and Clinic (YDHC) can ascerta...

A powerful tool for hospitals to address priority health needs of their patient population and th...

Across the United States, nonprofit hospitals are conducting community health needs assessments, ...

Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) have the potential to be powerful drivers to enhance t...

This AHA report provides a review of the current state for the behavioral health workforce, outli...

June 5–11 is Community Health Improvement Week. The AHA’s Association for Community Health Improv...

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

The Sunday Shoes Program is an innovative solution to help heart failure patients monitor weight ...

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

Ten years ago, Mercy began telemedicine in its ICUs to improve patient outcomes. Today the St. Lo...

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

Creating a quieter hospital environment can help the healing process and improve the patient expe...

In January 2015, Southern Illinois Healthcare, based in Carbondale, was awarded an 18-month USDA ...

April is National Minority Health Month. Led by the HHS Office of Minority Health, the 2016 event...

When outpatients at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, were frequently getting lost on their way to app...

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

Providence St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Montana, is working with community stakeholders, inc...

Citrus Valley Health Partners (CVHP) is a nonprofit comprehensive health care system based in Los...

Norwood Hospital is a full-service, 263-bed community hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts. In 2013...

Meritus Health’s replacement hospital, Meritus Medical Center, opened five years ago in Washingto...

Children’s Hospital Colorado launched a fun, hospital-wide hand hygiene challenge called “Germ Cr...

By adopting a supplier diversity program, hospitals and health care systems can support minority-...

The premise of this project was that failure to maintain a patient's respect and dignity represen...

Approximately two years ago frontline staff presented a proposal to remove bed and chair alarms f...

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

Tufts Medical Center made a decision to create its own quality improvement training for its workf...

In 2012, a physician-led Pioneer accountable care organization recognized an opportunity to bette...

For patients, the transition between acute and post-acute care is rife with risk. Even with moder...

North Shore Medical Center aims to provide the perfect patient experience based on evidence-based...

The skilled nursing facility three-day waiver program is an exciting opportunity at Partners Heal...

Nighttime or off-shift intubations are a low-frequency, high-risk procedure in a community hospit...

At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a small group of challenging patients account for a disproportio...

North Shore Medical Center is dedicated to safely transitioning all emergency department patients...

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...

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

Hallmark Health System, Inc., is participating in the Community-based Care Transitions Program (C...

The Hospital Group focused on reducing the readmission rate on the rehabilitation service unit (R...

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

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

This health care system's unique post-acute care (PAC) continuum of Inpatient Rehabilitation Faci...

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

This webinar will focus on two hospital-interfaith collaborations, one in Memphis that has been i...

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

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...

Join more than 900 hospitals and health systems and 30 state and metropolitan hospital associatio...

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

Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...

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

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

Hospitals strive to achieve the Triple Aim. This collection of case studies features three exampl...

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

Kennedy Health Decreases Sepsis BackgroundKennedy Health is an integrated health delivery system...

In accord with their commitment to equity of care and leadership diversity, hospitals and health ...

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

Baseball managers tinker with team lineups to improve results on the field, and hospitals can do ...

The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

This project aimed to reduce the OR turnover time for total joint cases. Baseline data showed it ...

Utilizing Six Sigma's DMAIC model, this project looked at ways to decrease errors in the document...

Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...

In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...

Broadens view of care delivery from hospital-based practice to the entire bundle episode (30-days...

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

A new HPOE Guide “Increasing Supplier Diversity in Health Care” provides action steps and case st...

Nine in 10 adults in the community lacked the literacy skills to manage their health and prevent ...

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...

Patient and family engagement is associated with fewer adverse events, lower health care costs, d...

Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...

An accurate home medication list serves as the "source of truth" for the entire process of medica...

The goal of this project was to reduce the amount of global office visits by using Lean Six Sigma...

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

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

What does it take to be a winner? Children's Hospital Colorado received the 2015 AHA-McKesson Que...

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

Addressing the complex needs of older patients and their caregivers is the focus of the Bridge Mo...

The Bridge Model improves transitions of care by utilizing master’s-educated social workers in a ...

The work to advance health care equity is always evolving, always improving at Henry Ford Health ...

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

Diversity and inclusion are key strategic goals at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in cen...

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

This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...

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 ...

Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center established the Quality Excellence Council at the beg...

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...

Their journey to eliminate falls with injury started last year, working towards a safety culture ...

Patients are often poorly prepared to manage acute and chronic conditions following their dischar...

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection is the second most commonly reported hospital-associa...

Central line-associated bloodstream infections continue to be associated with high costs and mort...

During FY2014, the surgical site infections rate at this academic medical center increased to 21....

Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...

During FY2014, the surgical site infections rate at this academic medical center increased to 21....

Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...