Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

The Illinois Department of Public Health, Center for Minority Services is using mobile messaging ...

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

Neighborhood and environment are important determinants of health in addition to individual chara...

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

From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and fa...

Webinars and presentations from the New England Health Impact Assessment Training Series in 2012.

Healthy Woman is a community that empowers women with the confidence to make informed health care...

he camp, a collaboration with Area Health Education Center (AHEC) and the University of Wyoming C...

Cambridge Health AllianceCambridge, MA229 Beds Cambridge Health Alliance is an integrated health...

Kaiser PermanenteOakland, CAKaiser Permanente is a health care provider and nonprofit health plan...

Georgia Health Sciences Health Augusta, GA632 Beds Georgia Health Sciences Health System consist...

Bellin Health SystemGreen Bay, WI Bellin Health System is a nonprofit integrated health care del...

Geisinger Health SystemDanville, PA545 Beds Geisinger Health System is an integrated health serv...

Howard University HospitalWashington, DC266 Beds Howard University Hospital is a private, nonpro...

This website provides a wealth of resources on CommunityHealth Needs Assessment and the related I...

This report details the Institute of Medicine's roundtable on population health improvement and d...

This report discusses strategies to help health care leaders prioritize three foundational elemen...

This report identifies steps that policy, public health and community stakeholders can take to pr...

The conclusion of H&HN's yearlong series on hospital, community and national efforts to identify ...

This articles argues that now is the time to integrate public health and primary care in a way th...

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

 For baby boomers, the peak interest in health issues comes at about age 51, with a second peak c...

Now, more than ever, hospitals and health system CEOs cannot sit on their hands as new care deliv...

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

Health care reform presents academic health centers with an opportunity to test new systems of ca...

At the 2012 American Public Health Association annual meeting, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation spo...

Annual analysis of the health care of a record number of Americans by the National Committee for ...

This webinar introduces strategies to increase physical activity through community design.

America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, say...

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

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, ...

This toolkit presents Muskegon County's Community Health Needs Assessment  process and results, a...

Fully two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. One-third of American children are overwei...

This article discusses divergent concepts of population health between care delivery systems and ...

Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...

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

This statistic may surprise you: Mental health conditions and mood disorders including depression...

This guide provides techniques, case studies and guiding principles from various fields of expert...

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

The Brooklyn Hospital Center Family Medicine Department made a commitment to improve the quality ...

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 the imperitive to invest in community development as a means to improve po...

This article discusses the socioeconomic factors necessary for health in a community. The author ...

This report discusses the necessity of health information technology to effectively and systemati...

Ten existential questions will make the difference between limping into the future and soaring to...

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

How do you measure success in creating a culture of health? Mountain View Hospital, a 25-bed crit...

In the United States, there has been a growing health care divide between vulnerable populations ...

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...

This article describes the development of the regional health collaborative, a population-based h...

The latest Alliance issue brief reports on how collaboratives are working at the local level to i...

This article discusses the evidence base behind population health management and explores the fut...

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

The report provides: Background on health and wellness programs and how they are incentivized ...

This report discusses the process of conducting a Health Impact Assessment and proposes a busines...

A key ingredient for success under health care reform will be the ability to utilize health infor...

This article addresses health care innovations that can help improve population and meet future h...

The guide is designed to serve as a quick, simple resource by outlining four steps: Examine yo...

Mercy has participated in developing a network of health care providers and community agencies to...

The Lourdes Center for Public Health works collaboratively with academic and community partners t...

Holy Cross Hospital Health Centers are primary care medical centers that provide affordable servi...

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 argues that policy actions must focus on income security, education, housing, food s...

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

This article traces the historical progression of the population health approach as part of healt...

This article proposes a definition of population health and differentiates the concept from publi...