Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The University of Vermont Health Network – Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital recently develope...

Carthage Area Hospital is improving patient and employee experiences by providing them with fresh...

The Lung Partners Primary Respiratory Care at the Crouse Hospital is managing the needs of patien...

The AHA's Physician Leadership Forum and Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative have relea...

A health system in rural Minnesota has helped develop an innovative model to prevent prescription...

Developing and sustaining hospital-community partnerships to address community health needs are c...

Effective and sustainable hospital-community partnerships are critical to building a Culture of H...

A vigorous approach to quality improvement at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Ill., is ac...

This HPOE guide, developed by Kaufman Hall, provides key considerations in partnering for populat...

Post-discharge phone calls are best practice, but multiple phone calls can confuse and frustrate ...

Community health needs assessments—CHNAs—are becoming a driver of community collaborations and a ...

As nonprofit hospitals in the U.S. complete a community health needs assessments (CHNA) process, ...

A “Germ Crusher” challenge at Children’s Hospital Colorado brought together leadership, staff, pa...

This guide features case studies of the 2015 Foster G. McGaw Prize winner and finalists. These ex...

Hospitals and communities are increasingly recognizing the importance of effective partnerships w...

For its excellent work addressing community health needs, Massachusetts General Hospital in Bosto...

Hospitals and health systems continually push to improve the health of their communities. Massach...

“Small changes can make a big difference.” So say health care professionals working to prevent ad...

Demand for Brockton Neighborhood Health Center (BNHC) accelerated after it started in 1994 as a m...

The Coachella Valley is a region in Southern California with an incredibly high rate of HIV. Base...

Codman Square Health Center in downtown Dorchester, MA exemplifies how a health center can build ...

North Country HealthCare is a federally qualified health center serving fourteen communities in n...

Claremont Village is a New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) public housing development in the ...

As one of only two hospitals in Yuma County, Yuma District Hospital and Clinic (YDHC) can ascerta...

A powerful tool for hospitals to address priority health needs of their patient population and th...

Across the United States, nonprofit hospitals are conducting community health needs assessments, ...

Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) have the potential to be powerful drivers to enhance t...

This AHA report provides a review of the current state for the behavioral health workforce, outli...

June 5–11 is Community Health Improvement Week. The AHA’s Association for Community Health Improv...

An intervention to prevent childhood obesity has blossomed into a communitywide effort led by a l...

Rates of inpatient medication errors range from 45 to 76 percent, with most errors occurring on-a...

Using HOUDINI to eliminate CAUTI. It’s all about decreasing the inappropriate use of indwelling c...

The Sunday Shoes Program is an innovative solution to help heart failure patients monitor weight ...

Over the past 20 years, nursing homes have been undertaking a cultural transition to look and fee...

Ten years ago, Mercy began telemedicine in its ICUs to improve patient outcomes. Today the St. Lo...

The Institute for Diversity in Health Management in collaboration with the AHA's Hospitals in Pur...

Creating a quieter hospital environment can help the healing process and improve the patient expe...

Mercy, a large Catholic health care system, began its telehealth initiatives with an eICU program...

In January 2015, Southern Illinois Healthcare, based in Carbondale, was awarded an 18-month USDA ...

An integrated health system headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Avera Health serves patie...

Funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Serv...

Based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Gundersen Health System is an integrated tertiary referral center ...

A key component to making patient care safer is to track your data and progress towards improveme...

The link between hunger, food insecurity and poor health has been clearly acknowledged as a serio...

April is National Minority Health Month. Led by the HHS Office of Minority Health, the 2016 event...

When outpatients at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, were frequently getting lost on their way to app...

Hospitals and health care systems are increasingly focused on finding better ways to deliver care...

Hospitals and faith organizations are collaborating to improve health care outcomes and organize ...

This HPOE guide, a collaboration with the American Society for Healthcare Engineering, explores w...

A new report from MHA and Collaborative Healthcare Strategies— State of the State: Reducing Readm...

Providence St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Montana, is working with community stakeholders, inc...

State and regional hospital associations across the United States are recognizing hospitals and h...

Bassett Medical Center, a 180-bed hospital in Cooperstown, New York, has implemented and sustaine...

Clark Regional Medical Center (CRMC) is a 79 bed, community hospital serving the residents of eas...

Citrus Valley Health Partners (CVHP) is a nonprofit comprehensive health care system based in Los...

Norwood Hospital is a full-service, 263-bed community hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts. In 2013...

Meritus Health’s replacement hospital, Meritus Medical Center, opened five years ago in Washingto...

Children’s Hospital Colorado launched a fun, hospital-wide hand hygiene challenge called “Germ Cr...

One patient safety tool can be used in all care and service areas, improving safety and quality f...

By adopting a supplier diversity program, hospitals and health care systems can support minority-...

This HPOE webinar takes an in-depth look into how the Massachusetts Hospital Association develope...

St. Joseph Health, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a 208-bed hospital in Napa, California, is...

The new HPOE  guide “Triple Aim Strategies to Improve Behavioral Health Care” describes strategie...

Recognizing the need to build a just culture, the leadership team at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hos...

The Baystate Health Breast and Wellness Center, created in 2013, is a combination of two premier ...

The premise of this project was that failure to maintain a patient's respect and dignity represen...

The collaborative was launched by Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care in 2012 to trans...

Approximately two years ago frontline staff presented a proposal to remove bed and chair alarms f...

Four years ago this hospital had no clinical leadership development program. Physician leaders wi...

Patient and system tracers have been conducted at this institution since 2008. Prior to this proj...

A house wide effort was lead this year to teach and embed continuous improvement methodology and ...

As the conventional analogy notes, change occurs when an organization finds itself atop a burning...

Throughout the country, primary care is faced with ongoing waves of healthcare reform (e.g. Accou...

Tufts Medical Center made a decision to create its own quality improvement training for its workf...

In 2012, a physician-led Pioneer accountable care organization recognized an opportunity to bette...

The health system's vision in 2014 was "to transform the delivery and financing of health care to...

For patients, the transition between acute and post-acute care is rife with risk. Even with moder...

The ICMP Program is a Care Manager collaborative created to ensure the transition of patient care...

North Shore Medical Center aims to provide the perfect patient experience based on evidence-based...

The skilled nursing facility three-day waiver program is an exciting opportunity at Partners Heal...

Mercy Medical Center committed to delivering the highest quality care with the greatest efficienc...

Nighttime or off-shift intubations are a low-frequency, high-risk procedure in a community hospit...

At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a small group of challenging patients account for a disproportio...

Under the leadership of the Process Improvement (PI) Department, the organization has been drivin...

The Perioperative Medicine Model of Care is a three-pronged approach to the postoperative care of...

North Shore Medical Center is dedicated to safely transitioning all emergency department patients...

As part of the efforts to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognize...

TEMPO: Together Everyone Improves Patient Outcomes, an initiative undertaken at Saint Vincent Hos...

Telemedicine, successfully used in many areas of medicine, has yet to be evaluated during the reh...

Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...

Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that diagnostic care for patients who were referred within the...

As the complexity and cost of cancer care increases, there is an urgent need to support and track...

Through this initiative, Highland Healthcare Associates IPA seeks to improve the physician's expe...

Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Physician’s Organization implem...

New England Quality Care Alliance, a physician network, implemented a medication prior authorizat...

As part of an effort to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognized ...

Boston Children’s Hospital and its associated pediatric primary care physicians organization coll...

The Care Tracker program at Signature Healthcare collates data from multiple sources, including b...

Many patients who find themselves in a situation where they are experiencing worsening symptoms o...

Diagnostic care for patients referred within the institution for suspicious lung lesions was vari...