Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Effective care transitions programs can do more than improve patient care: patients learn to mana...

The AHA’s framework for health reform, Health for Life, embraces the need to engage patients and ...

From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and fa...

Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...

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

Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...

Emory HealthcareAtlanta, GA Emory Healthcare, a large academic teaching system, deployed a patie...

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

Informed Medical Decisions FoundationBoston, MAThe Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, founded...

Georgia Health Sciences Health Augusta, GA632 Beds Georgia Health Sciences Health System consist...

Atlantic Health SystemNew Jersey1,308 Beds Atlantic Health System owns and operates Morristown M...

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH577 Beds Cincinnati Children’s Hospit...

Southcentral FoundationAnchorage, AK150 beds A nonprofit health care organization owned by the A...

Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...

 For baby boomers, the peak interest in health issues comes at about age 51, with a second peak c...

When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...

SHCA is a not-for-profit health care organization dedicated to serving those who advocate in the ...

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

A recent article from the Los Angeles Times looks at how the traditional doctor-patient relations...

UNC Hospitals is committed to providing a patient-centered care environment. A team of leaders is...

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

A multidisciplinary team was developed with objectives to provide clear, easy to understand educa...

This brief describes how decisionmakers can encourage a model of care that truly reflects the nee...

The goal of this initiative was to improve patient flow, outcomes, and experience, as well as com...

The Joint Academy is a multidisciplinary team approach that begins in the community with orthoped...

At Mountainside Residential Care Center's resident council, residents requested an improved dinin...

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

Wishard Health ServicesIndianapolis, IN293 Beds  The Problem Geriatric Resources for Assessment ...

SSM Saint Mary’s Medical CenterSaint Louis, MO 374 Beds The Problem Better Outcomes for Older Ad...

During this 90 minute session, speakers discussed how to effectively engage patients and their fa...

Among the health promotion and cost-control strategies included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ...

This webpage gives consumers resources and tools to be actively engaged in the quality of the car...

"We will open the doors." This was no magic incantation. Instead, the critical care unit at Virgi...

The journey from good to great for Good Samaritan Hospital of Baltimore started with differentiat...

The Urgency of Health System Reforms to Ensure Respect for Patients'  Wishes and Accou...

As the automobile industry in Flint, Mich., has declined, area residents have faced significant s...

"There are two jobs at Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare, Utica, N.Y. "taking care of patients directl...

The Problem ThedaCare selected its radiation oncology (rad-onc) department to kick off a systemw...

The Problem Progress West didn't so much have a problem but an opportunity. By opening a new hos...

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

In the Pink is a program of Saint Michael's Medical Center and the program provides outreach, edu...

St. Joseph Community Health  in Albuquerque, New Mexico, wants to make sure that all children hav...

The program's goal is to help participants obtain knowledge about their health care options and t...

These programs take health education, information and related services directly to community memb...

Infant mortality remains a major concern in Milwaukee. The "Baby Safe Sleep" program , which is f...

W hat is patient- and family-centered care? Why does it matter? How does it fit with a hospital's...

The concept of an Ambulatory Intensive Care Unit (A-ICU) developed because in most companies a sm...