Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System opened a facility to treet heavioral health and prim...

NYU Lutheran Healthcare, Brooklyn, N.Y., created a shared medical appointment program transformin...

The Bridge Model improves transitions of care by utilizing master’s-educated social workers in a ...

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

Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in...

This project was designed to improve the total health care for patients of a community mental hea...

This toolkit has tips on  Selecting Patients and Families to Serve as Advisors Preparation fo...

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

At hospitals, health care systems and state, regional and metropolitan hospital associations acro...

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

This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, ...

Preventing falls has been in the news recently, and with good reason: Among older adults, falls a...

The answer is HPOE.org. The question: Where do hospital and care system leaders find resources an...

Three Illinois hospitals received recognition for “delivering quality with distinction” by the Il...

This case study describes a pilot program to find out the effect that integrative behavioral heal...

This report discusses the importance of health in all policies, an approach to improving health b...

Providing quality care for patients with limited English proficiency can be challenging, even for...

Children diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities and behavior disorders need q...

The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quali...

The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...

The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...

Disparities in care were noted for diabetes, cardio vascular disease and cancer screeening for Hm...

Kaiser Permanente, as an integrated health care delivery system, has made significant progress to...

African American older adults are at greater risk of depression due to the higher incidence of ch...

Transforming organizations, such as academic health centers or teaching hospitals, toward creatin...

The driving principle behind the outpatient service excellence journey is excellent customer serv...

This primer discusses community benefit laws across the United States, noting differences in fede...

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

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

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

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

Palliative care specializes in taking care of patients with serious illness and focuses on provid...

Assisted living facilities allow residents to "age in place" by adjusting their level of care and...

At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients the...

Kaiser Permanente developed a home-based model of palliative care that uses an interdisciplinary ...

Acute care hospitals have been establishing palliative programs at a rapid pace; the United States n...

Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

This report is part of a new effort to provide medical students with information about the patter...

AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

At-large members are individuals in health care with an interest in the activities of the AHA and...

The American Organization of Nurse Executives is the national organization of nurses who design, ...

Secondary analysis of data from two studies examining palliative care in rural areas was conducte...

Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...

The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...

How to solve the problem? Many practices have found the answer in the creation of high-functionin...

An article on the SF Gate website profiles the new wave of medical school graduates, millennial a...

Between March and June 2012, Jackson Healthcare conducted a series of online physician surveys th...

Mayo Clinic has four operating unites to create new tools, processes and businesses. The Division...

As part of Franciscan St. James Health's commitment to improve the surgery processes, the hospita...