Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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...

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...

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

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...

More and more hospitals and health systems are leading community collaborations to create positiv...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

Two health care systems and more than 20 community organizations are improving the health and wel...

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...

The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

The Wisconsin Quality of Life Index is a multidimensional model for measuring patients’ quality o...

When River Hospital, Alexandria Bay, N.Y., identified an unmet mental health need for active duty...

Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...

There are opportunities around the country for dramatic innovation in the way health systems tran...

To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...

May 31 - June 6, 2015, is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health...

HPOE and Leavitt Partners worked in collaboration to detail how accountable care organizations (A...

In addition to identifying priority health needs and aligning partners and resources to address c...

Lake Placid and Tupper Lake, nursing homes that are part of Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, N.Y....

Based on the consultant’s recommendations, Lee Memorial’s (Fort Myers, Fla.) senior management de...

The Muskegon Community Health Project, in partnership with Mercy Health Partners, is an inclusive...

The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...

Building successful partnerships with patients and families may be a key strategy in a hospital’s...

To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...

When hospitals care for victims of violence, it provides a window of opportunity to interrupt the...