Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

A unique telemedicine consultation between a rural hospital and skilled rehabilitation/nursing fa...

Patient and family engagement is associated with fewer adverse events, lower health care costs, d...

North Shore University Hospital’s palliative care unit emphasizes quality of life by providing pa...

Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...

As hospitals expand their focus on providing equitable care, attention on those who are lesbian, ...

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

The medical center consistently missed internal quality targets, with a mean HAPU rate for 2007-2...

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

A patient's home environment or lack of support system can have a negative impact on their health...

The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...

The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...

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

St. John's implemented a web-based business intelligence platform that integrates physician quali...

Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...

 Hospital leaders struggle to provide effective care coordination to vulnerable populations. In 2...

April is National Minority Health Month. In 2011, the AHA and four partners formed Equity of Care...

An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

Delivering the right care, at the right time, in the right place. That focus is the strategy for ...

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

Garfield Medical Center, a 210-bed facility in Monterey, California, used best practices and peer...

This toolkit is a user-friendly “how-to” guide to help accelerate the elimination of health care ...

U.S. hospitals aree xploring what it means to be a hospital in a rapidly transforming health care...

By focusing on preventive care and health promotion, hospitals are catalyzing change in their com...

Kishwaukee Hospital, DeKalb, Ill., created a total knee and hip joint replacement center of excel...

Most hospitals collect race, ethnicity and language data, but a smaller percentage use the data i...

Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...

Change can be uncomfortable. But no matter how sophisticated, hospitals and health care systems n...

This handy visual aid illustrates the main points from "2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Benchma...

Lean Six Sigma tools were used to reduce pressure ulcers at Memorial Health System, Springfield, ...

Hospital-based Strategies for Creating a Culture of Health provides background on the Robert Wood...

The foundation of all efforts to identify disparities, improve quality, achieve equity and delive...

Saint Anthony Health Center, Alton, Ill., took a hard look at data from its cancer program and fo...

Pekin (Ill.) Hospital used plan-do-study-act with evidence-based practice research, guidelines re...

This infographic provides a sample of the findings from the 2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Ben...

The nation’s health care delivery system is in the midst of a transition from a fee-for-service a...

Many Medicare patients with life-limiting illnesses had no documented advanced directive while in...

The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...

Improving patient safety, leading multiple improvement efforts and moving to value-based care: Th...

This updated chartpack offers a snapshot of some common strategies used to improve the quality of...

Continuing on the second-curve series, HPOE highlights the Second Curve of Population Health info...

As our nation's population becomes more diverse, health care organizations are continuously prese...

A gap analysis was conducted. Key themes emerged in this analysis such as inadequate preparation ...

All practices participating in Better Health Greater Cleveland collect and submit data on patient...

Improving care after discharge translates to decreased readmissions. Marshall Medical Center, a 1...

Population health is receiving increased attention for its role in improving health care, specifi...

This article found that county characteristics are independently associated with higher hospital ...

This viewpoint article examines the barriers to improving health outcomes, eliminating disparitie...

The statistics are staggering: The number of Americans diagnosed with diabetes has risen from 1.5...

In 2005, Guernsey County in rural Ohio had the state’s second worst late-stage colon cancer rates...

Pinnacle Health System Harrisburg, PA599 Beds The Problem Health systems are no longer simply as...