Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

As the United States becomes increasingly diverse and as individuals choose to be more acculturat...

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

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

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

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

Many immigrant parents rely on their children to help them communicate as ad hoc interpreters in ...

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

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

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

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, a division of Wheaton Franciscan Services, Inc., is a Catholic, no...

The need for cultural competence among physician providers is widely recognized by accrediting bo...

The Cancer Legal Resource Center, joint program of the Disability Rights Legal Center and Loyola ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The University of Connecticut's community-based education program collaborated with community par...

A commitment to diversity came first. That was followed by specific action projects to increase d...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...

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

Among the agencies that have made a substantial effort toward competency is the Nursing Home Ombu...

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

For 18 years, Community House Calls, a UW Medicine program of Harborview Medical Center in Seattl...

Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

This report utilizes Dartmouth Atlas data to show differences in resource utilization among the 2...

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

Children's Mercy Hospitals & ClinicsKansas City, MO265 Beds The Problem The patient population a...

This toolkit provides a comprehensive approach to the collection of race, ethnicity and primary l...

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

A video on how to care for blind or sight-impaired individuals in a hospital

A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

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

Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitiviti...

The patient population of Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass., seemed to lack diversity. But by ac...

Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...

Mercy Health Partners  and Saint Mary's Health Care will be participating in the Improving Langua...