Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

This guide explains why hospital leaders should explore sustainability strategies for their organ...

Moving from a volume-based payment model to a value-based payment model requires a new set of man...

This guide builds upon prior American Hospital Association reports that outline a road map for ho...

This Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence guide explains the value of integrating physical and beha...

Generational differences—one factor of diversity—are changing workforce dynamics. Traditionalists...

This guide is a synopsis of a conversation held at the Association for Healthcare Resource & Mate...

Results from an Association for Community Health Improvement and American Hospital Association Su...

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

As health care leaders implement diverse improvement projects, from reducing hospital-acquired in...

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

This annual survey of employers provides a detailed look at trends in employer-sponsored health c...

This guide describes a three-step action plan from the On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI project that helps...

The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...

This resource gives hospital and health system leaders concrete, practical steps grounded on evid...

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

The Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Networks are designed to improve patient care ac...

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

To become an effective population health manager, a hospital must create effective partnerships. ...

"Metrics for the Second Curve of Health Care" expands on four strategies originally identified in...

The AHA’s framework for health reform, Health for Life, embraces the need to engage patients and ...

In 2012 the AHA Committee on Research focused on actively engaging health care users to improve o...

This second report in this series expands and explains all three strategies and focuses on patien...

A key objective of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's new reimbursement and payment...

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

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

Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...

In 1996, as the growth in managed care increased the role for general internists and primary care...

There has been a growing interest over the past several years in the concept of payment bundling,...

Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...

Authored by Kaufman Hall executives, this guide describes the groundwork and prerequisites requir...

“End of life care,” “serious illness” or “advanced illness” are some of the terms used to categor...

PLF hosted a session on achieving team-based health care delivery. David Nash, MD, founding dean ...

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

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

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are forming in communities across the country. In ACOs, hea...

This guide provides hospital leaders with a snapshot of hospitals' current readiness to participa...

To meet patient needs in the current market, hospitals have traditionally focused their efforts o...

As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

This guide describes how HCAHPS data should be used in context with other information about organ...

Early elective deliveries have been proven to increase the risk of adverse health outcomes post d...

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

Market forces are driving renewed interest in integration that may result in changes in the owner...

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

The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...

As America's hospitals and health systems are transforming care, hospitals are facing challenges ...

Throughout the United States, allied hospital associations—state, regional and metropolitan—are w...

This guide serves to explore the concept of cultural competency and build the case for the enhanc...

This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a...

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