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New Ulm Medical CenterNew Ulm, MN45 Beds The Problem New Ulm Medical Center, a critical access h...
Wrangell Medical CenterWrangell, AK22 Beds The Problem Wrangell Medical Center is located in Wra...
Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health CenterWindsor, VT60 Beds The Problem Mt. Ascutney Hospital and ...
Yuma District HospitalYuma, CO12 Beds The Problem Yuma District Hospital, located in Yuma, Color...
Cheyenne Regional Medical CenterCheyenne, WY222 Beds The Problem Cheyenne Regional Medical Cente...
This report indentifies and explains guiding principles to inform the implementation ofCommunity ...
Children diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities and behavior disorders need q...
Providing the very best care—the goal of all hospitals and care givers—must include an understand...
In 2008, Ellis Hospital launched a medical home at its Ellis Health Center campus. This initiativ...
Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and Northern Counties Health Care, Inc., have had a long-...
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center and Cheyenne Health and Wellness Center partner on several initi...
Holy Cross Hospital could be characterized as an emergency department with critical care units. T...
Patients may be Christian, Jew, Muslim or of any other religious expression—at Lutheran Medical C...
Young children who missed more than half of recommended well-child visits had up to twice the ris...
Chambers County was designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration as one of the ...
Davis Health System is a health care network that includes 90-bed Davis Memorial Hospital, 12-bed...
Concord (N.H.) Hospital • 230-bed regional medical center • 17,194 admissions • 295 medical staff...
Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, Jackson, Miss.– 633 beds– 3,000-plus employees In 1997, Miss...
ProMedica’s (NW Ohio and SE Michigan) mission is to improve the health and well-being of the peop...
Think of all the instruments, equipment and furniture in a hospital operating room. Any of these ...
Improving discharge can reap multiple benefits for patients and providers, including reducing rea...
Improving discharge can reap multiple benefits for patients and providers, including reducing rea...
Telepsychiatry is playing a pivotal role in providing timely care to hospitalized mental health p...
Providing culturally competent care to patients requires a focus on more than just race, ethnicit...
This webinar examined best practices and lessons from the field on health care transformation ini...
More than 64 million surgeries are performed annually in the United States. Preventing surgical s...
There were between 462,000 and 636,000 CLABSIs in nonneonatal critical care patients in the Unite...
Ensuring the highest quality for patient care means continuously reviewing processes and outcomes...
The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quali...
"Metrics for the Second Curve of Health Care" expands on four strategies originally identified in...
Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typic...
April is National Minority Health Month. Launched in April 2001 by the National Minority Health F...
Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...
Data suggests that the hospital has a three year (2006-2009) CHF readmission average of 24.2 perc...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
According to Leapfrog survey results, the hospital’s rate of elective deliveries prior to 39 week...
The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...
The goal was to eliminate all variances in the clinical process measures to ensure that patients ...
According to Leapfrog survey results, the hospital’s rate of elective deliveries prior to 39 week...
The chair files highlight stories of hospitals and health systems that are implementing innovativ...
The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...
Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...
Preoperative/procedure testing for surgical, cardiac catheterization and scheduled C-section pati...
In December 2009, the medical center embarked on a little known and practiced procedure in the Un...
The AHA's Committee on Research developed the report, "Engaging Health Care Users: A Framework fo...
HPOE is pleased to highlight case studies from the Illinois Hospital Association’s Institute f...
This webinar from Health Resources in Action discusses the benefits of hospital-community collabo...
Greenville Health SystemGreenville, South Carolina786 Beds The Problem The diversity of the lead...
The Backyard Initiative at Allina Health, based in Minnesota, is truly taking care beyond hospita...
Collective Impact is the commitment of a group of actors from different sectors to a common agend...
In 2009, the leadership team of this hospital empowered its multidisciplinary critical care commi...
The hospital was experiencing higher costs and lower quality care than its competitors based on d...
The hospital developed a comprehensive, multidisciplinary stroke program to provide patients with...
Early and safe mobility of critically ill patients in a cardiovascular surgical intensive care un...
The treatment of asthma requires cultural and linguistic sensitivity. Ideal treatment options req...
Disparities in care were noted for diabetes, cardio vascular disease and cancer screeening for Hm...
The University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health and its Center for Health Litera...
The University of Michigan Health System used lean management and the plan-do-check-act cycle to ...
The YWCA of Greater Milwaukee created a diversity training program focused on race and racism, in...
To help those with reading and language challenges, UVA Health System staff developed a curriculu...
Although it is accepted that cultural competency training is a vital part of reducing health disp...
A collaborative effort among Harborview Medical Center, two massage schools, the Southeast Seattl...
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Texas Health Institute developed a fr...
Health plans and provider communities share a need for quality information that promotes cultural...
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Geriatric Education Center provides geriatric education ...
This case study explains Barnes-Jewish Hospital's approach to training it 4,100 team members thr...
Stanford Geriatric Education Center's geriatric training programs for health professionals are o...
The Illinois Department of Public Health, Center for Minority Services is using mobile messaging ...
This study of Spanish-speaking rural Latinos with diabetes finds that Spanish fluency is independ...
L.A. Care Health Plans developed an innovative video designed to inform deaf and hard-of-hearing ...
In a society as culturally diverse as the United States, especially in New York City, members of...
In 2005, the University of Washington School of Medicine was awarded a grant from the National In...
Interest in cross-cultural communication in health care has increased in recent years as provider...
Good patient/provider communication correlates with greater patient satisfaction, increased patie...
Although, increasing diversity in the health care workforce and training health care providers to...
This case study describes an evidence-based residency program that applies to an international au...
The use of cross-cultural diversity forum isexamined. The forums use technology and tools to brin...
According to the Pew research center, 74 percent of all adults in the United States use the Inte...
Since 2011, a series of narrated video slideshow presentations has been under development at Har...
The Tool for Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments program seeks to enable raising com...
Clinicians and health care providers incorporate evidence-based clinical interventions to improve...
The ADA committee at the Kaiser Woodland Hills facility was started in 2010 in an effort to compl...
This case study looks at he Joint Commission's recommendation related to culturally and linguisti...
Little is known about the unique health needs and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans...
Beginning in August 2007, the Arizona Department of Health Services' Health Disparities Center or...
The University of Connecticut's community-based education program collaborated with community par...
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Pharmacy developed a curriculum to add...
The Cancer Legal Resource Center, joint program of the Disability Rights Legal Center and Loyola ...
Kaiser Permanente, as an integrated health care delivery system, has made significant progress to...
n 2008, Barnes-Jewish Hospital center for diversity and cultural competence developed an 18-hourc...
Project Perlas is a community-based participatory research project addressing disparities in mamm...
African American older adults are at greater risk of depression due to the higher incidence of ch...
Today health disparities remain a constant challenge for immigrants, refugees and displaced popul...
This case study explores the process of accessing health care from the perspective of the immigra...
Many immigrant parents rely on their children to help them communicate as ad hoc interpreters in ...
There is often a lack of coordination among the various health and social systems that provide in...
Neighborhood and environment are important determinants of health in addition to individual chara...
Approximately 24 million people--8.5 percent of the U.S. population--are defined as having Limite...
In order to deliver the highest quality and most appropriate health care, Georgia Health Sciences...
Transforming organizations, such as academic health centers or teaching hospitals, toward creatin...