Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Approximately 28 percent of the hospital's patients with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) are readm...

Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) account for 30-40 percent of the organizati...

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

T4P/BREATHE is an inter-professional project created in response to improving patient outcomes an...

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...

The largest drivers of disease in populations are unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, unhealthy...

CDMHC’s innovative programs divert hundreds of patients from the hospitals and emergency departme...

The Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina is an unprecedented volunteer collaboration of more t...

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...

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

Apps and iPads are tools of choice for improving the health of Pennsylvania schoolchildren. Lehig...

The Heathcare Association of New York State announced its 2015 Community Health Improvement award...

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 ...

The concept of the Triple Aim is  widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...

Working with community organizations, including competitors, Palmetto Health is improving the hea...

Palmetto Health has pursued multiple initiatives and strategies to promote a healthy community an...

n 2013, San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center, Conejos County Hospital and five clinics officia...

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

United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia, N.Y., focused on patients with congestive heart failure,...

Hospitals and care systems are uniquely positioned to play an integral role preventing violence i...

Working with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this infographic summarizes the findings of a re...

The Human Services Alliance of Beaufort County is one of the oldest coalitions for health improve...

The Road to Better Health Spartanburg has proven that working collectively and in partnership wit...

Montefiore Medical Center's School Health Program is the largest and most comprehensive school-ba...

How is your hospital building a culture of health in the community? That is, a culture in which a...

This article highlights the success of a pilot project between Park Nicollet hospital, St. Louis ...

Improving population health is a must-do strategy in transforming health care delivery. Yale New ...

This issue brief continues the program’s examination of state-level community benefit oversight b...

The “second curve” of population health involves an integrated approach to improving patient and ...

A growing number of hospitals are engaged in community economic development, recognizing the impo...

This article discusses opportunities for health care providers to leverage Affordable Care Act re...

Healthy Communities of Clinton County Coalition Two teams of community members--a coalition of h...

Million Hearts is a national initiative to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2017. I...

No single organization can effectively address complex community health issues such as access to ...

To become an effective population health manager, a hospital must create effective partnerships. ...

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...

Cheyenne Regional Medical Center and Cheyenne Health and Wellness Center partner on several initi...

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...

ProMedica’s (NW Ohio and SE Michigan) mission is to improve the health and well-being of the peop...

This webinar examined best practices and lessons from the field on health care transformation ini...

To help those with reading and language challenges, UVA Health System staff developed a curriculu...

Project Perlas is a community-based participatory research project addressing disparities in mamm...

The Tool for Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments program seeks to enable raising com...

There is often a lack of coordination among the various health and social systems that provide in...

Kaiser PermanenteOakland, CAKaiser Permanente is a health care provider and nonprofit health plan...

Geisinger Health SystemDanville, PA545 Beds Geisinger Health System is an integrated health serv...

Cambridge Health AllianceCambridge, MA229 Beds Cambridge Health Alliance is an integrated health...

Methodist Le Bonheur HealthcareMemphis, TN1,321 Beds The Congregational Health Network is a part...

A central goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to significantly reduce the n...

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

Using Plan-Do-Study-Act, this initiative prioritized utilization of spirometry as the standard di...

Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...

To meet patient needs in the current market, hospitals have traditionally focused their efforts o...

In 2009, North Central Bronx Hospital analyzed data from its diabetes registry to identify opport...

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

Summa Health SystemAkron, OH461 Beds The Problem Summa Health System serves a five county region...

This article discusses the imperitive to invest in community development as a means to improve po...

Carolinas HealthCare System, based in Charlotte, N.C., is partnering with 12 YMCA branches "to cr...

Steve Riney, Chief Information Officer at Methodist Medical Center of Illinois in Peoria, talks t...

This article describes the development of the regional health collaborative, a population-based h...

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

This article presents four case studies of effective community and academic partnership that impr...

This report discussses the Center for Disease Control's involvement with Prevention Research Cent...

This 46-page document reviews the history of Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives and consi...

The Problem Almost 20 percent of Medicare beneficiaries are readmitted to the hospital within 30...

From October 2009 to February 2011, MR CHAMMP sponsored 67 programs which were provided to the co...