Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Emory HealthcareAtlanta, GA Emory Healthcare, a large academic teaching system, deployed a patie...

Atlantic Health SystemNew Jersey1,308 Beds Atlantic Health System owns and operates Morristown M...

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...

Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...

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...

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 ...

SHCA is a not-for-profit health care organization dedicated to serving those who advocate in the ...

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

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 paper examines successful approaches to delivering mental health treatment in primary care a...

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

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

The Joint Academy is a multidisciplinary team approach that begins in the community with orthoped...

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...

Summa Health SystemAkron, OH461 Beds The Problem Summa Health System serves a five county region...

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...

Carolinas HealthCare System, based in Charlotte, N.C., is partnering with 12 YMCA branches "to cr...

Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...

The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions designed to encourage greater coordination an...

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

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...

This report summarizes the results of that survey, which indicated that overall influenza vaccina...

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...

This 46-page document reviews the history of Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives and consi...

This report discussses the Center for Disease Control's involvement with Prevention Research Cent...

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

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

This article discusses the role of information technology to achieve population health goals.

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...

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...