Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

October 6 – 12 is Mental Health Awareness Week. According to estimates, in the United States each...

October 6 – 12 is Mental Health Awareness Week. According to estimates, in the United States each...

Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Network GoalsReduce patient harm by 40 percent and ...

The Collaborative on Reducing Hospital Readmissions GoalUnderstand readmission causes and adopt ...

Southeastern Health, Lumberton, N.C. 452 beds 16,000 impatient admissions 76,000 emergency d...

Research shows that when patients are engaged in their health care, it can lead to measurable imp...

Newark Department of Child and Family Well-BeingNewark NJ The Problem In 2003, The Newark (N.J.)...

In July 2013, the AHA released another collection of action-oriented resources that can help hosp...

This toolkit provides a framework for creating interventions that promote the Healthy People 2020...

In California, about 16 percent of the adult population, more than 4 million people, have mental ...

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

This article discusses how six organizations in Oakland, Calif., used a health impact assessment ...

No single organization can effectively address complex community health issues such as access to ...

This report indentifies and explains guiding principles to inform the implementation ofCommunity ...

Children diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities and behavior disorders need q...

Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, Jackson, Miss.– 633 beds– 3,000-plus employees In 1997, Miss...

Telepsychiatry is playing a pivotal role in providing timely care to hospitalized mental health p...

Ensuring the highest quality for patient care means continuously reviewing processes and outcomes...

An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...

Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...

Greenville Health SystemGreenville, South Carolina786 Beds The Problem The diversity of the lead...

Collective Impact is the commitment of a group of actors from different sectors to a common agend...

The hospital was experiencing higher costs and lower quality care than its competitors based on d...

The treatment of asthma requires cultural and linguistic sensitivity. Ideal treatment options req...

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

A collaborative effort among Harborview Medical Center, two massage schools, the Southeast Seattl...

This case study describes an evidence-based residency program that applies to an international au...

Beginning in August 2007, the Arizona Department of Health Services' Health Disparities Center or...

In order to deliver the highest quality and most appropriate health care, Georgia Health Sciences...

After several monthly reviews of reported adverse drug events, hypoglycemia ranked highest for th...

After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...

Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...

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

An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...

The goal was to improve turnaround times of troponin and EKGs within the cardiac patient populati...

The 2012 AHA Committee on Performance Improvement focused on advanced illness management. Well-de...

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

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

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

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

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

The 2012 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality award winners and finalists are highlighted in this webin...

Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

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

Physicians' steady interest in hospital employment — a trend that has accelerated in recent years...

The AMA Principles for Physician Employment are intended to help physicians, those who employ phy...

While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...

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

Efforts to improve U.S. health care must include payment reforms that encourage greater efficienc...

Bundled payments are becoming more attractive to the health care industry as providers learn that...

Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

The implementation of accountable care organizations, a new health care payment and delivery mode...

When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...

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

Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...

Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...

The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...

AHRMM is the premier membership group for health care supply chain and materials management profe...

Established in 1980, ASHRM is a personal membership group of the AHA with nearly 6,000 members re...

SHSMD is the premier organization for 4,000 health care professionals responsible for strategy de...

Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...

Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

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

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...

The Association for the Healthcare Environment represents directors, managers, supervisors, suppl...

The IHI Improvement Capability Self‐Assessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...

Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...

There is widespread agreement that the current fee-for-service approach to paying for health care...

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

The Health Disparities Cancer Collaborative implemented six components of the chronic care model ...

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

Health care professionals at Henry Ford Health System know how to connect with teenagers. About 1...

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