Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The YWCA of Greater Milwaukee created a diversity training program focused on race and racism, in...

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

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Geriatric Education Center  provides geriatric education ...

This study of Spanish-speaking rural Latinos with diabetes finds that Spanish fluency is independ...

In 2005, the University of Washington School of Medicine was awarded a grant from the National In...

Although, increasing diversity in the health care workforce and training health care providers to...

According to the Pew research center,  74 percent of all adults in the United States use the Inte...

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

Clinicians and health care providers incorporate evidence-based clinical interventions to improve...

The ADA committee at the Kaiser Woodland Hills facility was started in 2010 in an effort to compl...

Beginning in August 2007, the Arizona Department of Health Services' Health Disparities Center or...

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

Today health disparities remain a constant challenge for immigrants, refugees and displaced popul...

This case study explores the process of accessing health care from the perspective of the immigra...

In order to deliver the highest quality and most appropriate health care, Georgia Health Sciences...

A team was created to ensure that all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, language, disabilit...

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

The Affordable Care Act and state Medicaid reform efforts present opportunities to reengineer hea...

A monograph from the Association of American Medical Colleges, in partnership with the Institute ...

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

The Health Disparities Cancer Collaborative implemented six components of the chronic care model ...

This commentary was written by  Daren R. Anderson, MD, vice president and chief quality officer, ...

Although Maryland enjoys the third highest median income in the United States, the state suffers ...

During this webinar, hear how AnMed Health is applying the principles of REaL (race, ethnicity an...

This web seminar highlighted improvements in staff training and building the culturally competent...

For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...

Achieving health care equity and eliminating health care disparities are a top goal of hospitals ...

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

New York-Presbyterian HospitalNew York, NY2,264 Beds The Problem New York-Presbyterian Hospital’...

This article discusses preliminary findings from the National Congress of American Indians Policy...

The objective of this study was to describe health plan efforts to collect language data from its...

Representatives from Catholic Health Initiatives in Denver, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in...

The IOM's Roundtable on Health Literacy brings together leaders from the federal government, foun...

In 2003 the Institute of Medicine called on health plans to collect data on their members  race a...

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

In this article, the author argues that health equity is best achieved by securing access to high...

This article proposes an examination of health disparities through the lens of public health to p...

The guide is a resource for those interested or already engaged in quality improvement initiative...

This site, sponsored by the Office of Minority Health, offers the latest resources and tools to p...

Racial and socioeconomic inequity persists in health care quality. An exploratory interview with ...

The Diversity & Inclusion Council was developed to create and sustain an organizational culture t...

The St. Francis Medical Center Kitty DeGree Breast Health Center employs a full-time breast healt...

The Healthy Start/Healthy Families program primary goal is preventing chronic health problems in ...

Migrant Health Promotion strives to improve the ability of migrant farm worker families to live h...

This article discusses strategies to maximize improvement in overall population health and sugges...

This article discusses definitions of population health and how various models of can operational...