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Hospitals and health systems recognized for excellence in health care equity are sharing their wo...
Learn from the best of the best. The 2013 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize® recipients will s...
Everyone is talking “population health management,” and many health care organizations are succes...
Being accessible only by airplane or boat adds to the scenic character of Wrangell, Alaska (popul...
June 2–8 is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health Improvement s...
Children diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities and behavior disorders need q...
Patients may be Christian, Jew, Muslim or of any other religious expression—at Lutheran Medical C...
The Backyard Initiative at Allina Health, based in Minnesota, is truly taking care beyond hospita...
Effective care transitions programs can do more than improve patient care: patients learn to mana...
From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and fa...
Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...
Year after year, America’s hospitals respond to meet pressing community health care needs. In 200...
One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...
Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...
Compassionate and cost effective is how Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Fla., des...
Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...
Health care professionals at Henry Ford Health System know how to connect with teenagers. About 1...
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in American men, after skin cancer. According to...
Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Re...
It?s estimated that patients remember and understand about half of the information they receive f...
Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...
For 18 years, Community House Calls, a UW Medicine program of Harborview Medical Center in Seattl...
Walk into an ER for treatment and walk out with a medical home. Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospit...
This statistic may surprise you: Mental health conditions and mood disorders including depression...
Teamwork benefits seniors, too. A partnership between Wishard Health Services?a large safety net ...
Carolinas HealthCare System, based in Charlotte, N.C., is partnering with 12 YMCA branches "to cr...
Care coordination is challenging for complex and vulnerable patient populations. Montefiore Medic...
Restructuring care has reduced readmissions at St. Mary?s Duluth (MN) Clinic Heart and Vascular ...
"We will open the doors." This was no magic incantation. Instead, the critical care unit at Virgi...
Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii, used "a novel approach" to ...
March 6-12 is designated as National Patient Safety Awareness Week...and we know that America's h...
The journey from good to great for Good Samaritan Hospital of Baltimore started with differentiat...
The US Department of Veterans Affairs comprehensive Clinical Practice program brings together VA ...
As the automobile industry in Flint, Mich., has declined, area residents have faced significant s...
"There are two jobs at Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare, Utica, N.Y. "taking care of patients directl...
Aesop?s fable "The Bundle of Sticks" teaches a lesson in working together: "Union gives strength....
Extending services beyond the hospital walls to its most vulnerable patients?that is the goal of ...