Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This HPOE webinar, held with the Institute for Diversity, highlights Henry Ford Health System, wh...

This guide provides a framework for hospitals and care systems to stratify patient race, ethnicit...

Diversity has become a core value at U.S. hospitals. Meridian Health, a not-for-profit health car...

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

INTEGRIS Health is the largest Oklahoma-owned health care corporation. Its facilities cover the c...

Hospitals and health systems recognized for excellence in health care equity are sharing their wo...

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

“Once a patient believes that you [the provider] understand them, we think the healing begins,” s...

Equity of Care, in collaboration with the Institute for Diversity in Health Management is featuri...

The Stars of the Field is H&HN's second annual AHA awards issue. Hospitals that are making tremen...

Meridian Health is a leading not-for-profit health care organization in New Jersey, comprised of ...

A national leader in health care equity, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has developed s...

Here’s the promising news: About 95 percent of hospitals and health care systems collect data on ...

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

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

The May 2014 edition of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved highlights lingui...

Crossroad Health Center is a federally qualified health center and level 3 patient-centered medic...

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

The Greater Detroit Area Health Council is taking an innovative approach to reducing disparities ...

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

National Hospital Week celebrates the men and women working in U.S. hospitals and care systems wh...

More than 20 hospitals came together with community organizations in the Cincinnati area to provi...

The April issue of Health Services Research journal is now available. Covering topics in variati...

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

A new member of the health care team is helping to improve clinical outcomes and patient experien...

Founded in 1989, the Metro Community Provider Network is a nonprofit organization in the Denver M...

Established in 2007, Colorado Total Smiles is a nonprofit located in the Denver Metro area that p...

Preventing hospital-acquired infections, reducing surgical complications and reducing readmission...

The path to eliminating disparities in health care has a few roadblocks: limited resources and ac...

Womansplace Crisis Center is committed to working toward the elimination of violence against wome...

After more than a decade of war, many U.S. military service members have experienced an unprecede...

This HPOE presentation highlights the business imperative for equity of care.  As the health care...

Reducing health care disparities is a growing national priority and state hospital associations a...

Focusing on strategies to improve quality, address disparities and achieve equity will be essenti...

Focusing on strategies to improve quality and achieve health care equity is a growing national pr...

Patients are becoming empowered. As health care consumers, they are reviewing publicly available ...

After a decade of war and an unprecedented number of combat deployments, our service members, vet...

This article explores how geographic health information systems can be used to improve the health...

This guide includes two sections that address collection and use of patient race, ethnicity and l...

A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...

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

Cultural competency in health care describes the ability of systems to provide care to patients w...

Providing the very best care—the goal of all hospitals and care givers—must include an understand...

Patients may be Christian, Jew, Muslim or of any other religious expression—at Lutheran Medical C...

Providing culturally competent care to patients requires a focus on more than just race, ethnicit...

April is National Minority Health Month. Launched in April 2001 by the National Minority Health F...

 HPOE is pleased to highlight case studies from the Illinois Hospital Association’s Institute f...

Greenville Health SystemGreenville, South Carolina786 Beds The Problem The diversity of the lead...

The treatment of asthma requires cultural and linguistic sensitivity. Ideal treatment options req...

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

The University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health and its Center for Health Litera...

The University of Michigan Health System used lean management and the plan-do-check-act cycle to ...

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...

Although it is accepted that cultural competency training is a vital part of reducing health disp...

A collaborative effort among Harborview Medical Center, two massage schools, the Southeast Seattl...

The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Texas Health Institute developed a fr...

Health plans and provider communities share a need for quality information that promotes cultural...

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

This case study explains Barnes-Jewish Hospital's approach to training it  4,100 team members thr...

 Stanford Geriatric Education Center's geriatric training programs for health professionals are o...

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

L.A. Care Health Plans developed an innovative video designed to inform deaf and hard-of-hearing ...

In a society as culturally diverse as the United States, especially in New York City,  members of...

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

Interest in cross-cultural communication in health care has increased in recent years as provider...

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

This case study describes an evidence-based residency program that applies to an international au...

The use of cross-cultural diversity forum isexamined. The forums use technology and tools to brin...

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

Since 2011, a series of narrated video slideshow presentations has been under development at  Har...

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...

This case study looks at he Joint Commission's recommendation related to culturally and linguisti...