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...

Project Perlas is a community-based participatory research project addressing disparities in mamm...

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

Effective care transitions programs can do more than improve patient care: patients learn to mana...

Development of a Norwood Clinic allowed the quality improvement team to create goals to decrease ...

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

Year after year, America’s hospitals respond to meet pressing community health care needs. In 200...

The program director created the Individuals Combining Activity and Nutrition (ICAN) pilot progra...

Platte County holds free birthing classes for expectant parents three times per year in January, ...

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

The Sharps Disposal Program offers a safe way for diabetics or anyone using medical sharps to dis...

St. John?s Institute for Cognitive Health and the University of Utah Center for Alzheimer?s Care,...

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

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

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

This book provides practical skills for building communities. Chapters three, four and five addre...

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

During 2012, despite economic challenges, hospitals and health care systems throughout the United...

The Community Guide is a resource for evidence-based task force recommendations and findings abou...

 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 ...

For the last century, the major causes of disease and death among Americans have changed, shiftin...

Medicaid is the nation's health coverage program for the low-income population, covering , more t...

For the  last 15 years, public hospitals have pursued multiple strategies to help maintain financ...

Cigna’s Collaborative Accountable Care initiative provides financial incentives to physician grou...

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

This cross-site comparison of the early experience of four provider organizations participating i...

HRET has been awarded a contract by CMS to support their Partnership for Patients campaign. PfP i...

The Florida Hospital Association is proud to recognize the 2012 Celebration of Achievement in Qua...

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

One of the most vital strategies in the current health care environment is physician-hospital ali...

In an Oct. 17 webinar presented by Becker's Hospital Review, Scott Becker, a partner at McGuireWo...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...

Diabetes is among the ten leading causes of death in both white and African American patients, bu...

Using key metrics, MaineHealth gauges its impact on population health The board's challenge--wha...

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

The AHA is dedicated to highlighting the good work that America's hospitals are doing to care and...

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...

Studies suggest that the presence of multiple chronic conditions (MCC) adds a layer of complexity...

Quality is the first word that comes to mind when we talk about the American Hospital Association...

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

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

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

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...

This paper explores the current landscape of patient-centered medical home services for patients ...

HRET and the Commonwealth Fund reviewed research findings regarding the characteristics and proce...

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

Evidence-based practice is an essential requirement of professional health care providers. Rural ...

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

Baylor Health Care SystemDallas, TX3,653 Beds The Problem The Baylor Health Care System Office o...

Barnes-Jewish HospitalSt. Louis, MO1,305 Beds The Problem Barnes-Jewish Hospital created the Cen...

Saving lives and promoting community health certainly are commendable undertakings. To fully real...

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...

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 strenghts of community disease prevention offers and presents a framewo...

The closed-door discussion focused on the best practices of organizations that have won or were f...

An international survey of adults living with health problems and complex care needs found that p...

A Pittsburgh-based wellness program enlists entire communities to promote wellness for children.

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

This annual webinar highlights thhe 2011 AHA-McKesson  Quest forQuality winners and finalists. 20...

Providing high-quality care to every child has always been the objective at Children's Mercy Hosp...

Steve Riney, Chief Information Officer at Methodist Medical Center of Illinois in Peoria, talks t...

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...