Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This journal article sought to determine the effects of EHRs on ambulatory quality in a community...

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

Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

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

Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...

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

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

Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...

Secondary analysis of data from two studies examining palliative care in rural areas was conducte...

Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...

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

This audio program features current news and information from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Rese...

The IHI Improvement Capability Self‐Assessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...

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

Continuous. Quality. Improvement. To achieve that goal, Meriter Hospital, a 448-bed facility in M...

On April 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services  released a final regulation for the ne...

A loading dose is an initial dose of medication administered to rapidly achieve therapeutic level...

Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...

As health care facilities continually look to strengthen their falls prevention programs and resp...

Rob Olson, MD, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Bellingham, Wash., sold his solo practice when he ...

Seasonal influenza remains a serious public health concern. According to the CDC, seasonal influe...

The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...

This web seminar provided participants with information about diversity management, cultural comp...

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

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

Every four years, the Olympic Games recognize athletes on a quest to be the best in their chosen ...

The Standardized Care to Improve Outcomes in Pediatric ESRD (SCOPE) Quality Collaborative helps d...

A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...

Patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure are more likely...

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...

University Hospitals Case Medical Center has undergone a decade-long cultural transformation to a...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...

A strong collaboration among senior leadership, governance and the medical staff at Meriter Hospi...

Small but mighty describes Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hosp...

E-mail, e-books, e-commerce. And now for patients, eVisits. At the University of Pittsburgh Medic...

Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...

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

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in American men, after skin cancer. According to...

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

It?s estimated that patients remember and understand about half of the information they receive f...

This study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...

Drawing from data reported by the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Agency for Healthcare Research an...

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and the Health Care Improvement Foundation (HCIF) partn...

Pennsylvania facilities submitted 879 medication error reports from July 1, 2004, through January...

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 ...

Although Maryland enjoys the third highest median income in the United States, the state suffers ...