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This report indentifies and explains guiding principles to inform the implementation ofCommunity ...
In 2008, Ellis Hospital launched a medical home at its Ellis Health Center campus. This initiativ...
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center and Cheyenne Health and Wellness Center partner on several initi...
Young children who missed more than half of recommended well-child visits had up to twice the ris...
Chambers County was designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration as one of the ...
Davis Health System is a health care network that includes 90-bed Davis Memorial Hospital, 12-bed...
Concord (N.H.) Hospital • 230-bed regional medical center • 17,194 admissions • 295 medical staff...
ProMedica’s (NW Ohio and SE Michigan) mission is to improve the health and well-being of the peop...
This webinar examined best practices and lessons from the field on health care transformation ini...
The goal was to eliminate all variances in the clinical process measures to ensure that patients ...
The AHA's Committee on Research developed the report, "Engaging Health Care Users: A Framework fo...
HPOE is pleased to highlight case studies from the Illinois Hospital Association’s Institute f...
This webinar from Health Resources in Action discusses the benefits of hospital-community collabo...
Collective Impact is the commitment of a group of actors from different sectors to a common agend...
The hospital developed a comprehensive, multidisciplinary stroke program to provide patients with...
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...
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.
Year after year, America’s hospitals respond to meet pressing community health care needs. In 200...
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,...
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...
Saint Elizabeth’s Medical CenterWabasha, MN25 Beds Saint Elizabeth’s Medical Center, part of Min...
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 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...
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...
Use this tool to assess whether your health-related organization or system, or coalition of organ...
The Community Guide is a resource for evidence-based task force recommendations and findings abou...
The conclusion of H&HN's yearlong series on hospital, community and national efforts to identify ...
As the U.S. population ages and the number of Americans impacted by obesity and diabetes increase...
This articles argues that now is the time to integrate public health and primary care in a way th...
A central goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to significantly reduce the n...
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...
As the patient-centered medical home model gains momentum, providers must strike a balance betwee...
Efforts to improve U.S. health care must include payment reforms that encourage greater efficienc...
The mobile app from HPOE will ensure you receive up-to-date alerts when new HPOE guides are relea...
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...
The implementation of accountable care organizations, a new health care payment and delivery mode...
This cross-site comparison of the early experience of four provider organizations participating i...
The Florida Hospital Association is proud to recognize the 2012 Celebration of Achievement in Qua...
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 ...
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...
Accelerating Care Integration Lack of care coordination and integration was identified as a majo...
This webinar introduces strategies to increase physical activity through community design.
Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...
The AHA is dedicated to highlighting the good work that America's hospitals are doing to care and...
Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...
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 article discusses how clinically at-risk and socially disadvantaged populations may not be f...
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...
UNC Hospitals is committed to providing a patient-centered care environment. A team of leaders is...
A collection of 10 short essays by the industry luminaries who have received HRET's TRUST Award s...
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 ...
Fairfield Memorial Hospital identified the need to improve the patient experience in the emergenc...
Rush-Copley Medical Center collaborated with the Kane County Health Department after an outbreak ...
A multidisciplinary team was developed with objectives to provide clear, easy to understand educa...
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are forming in communities across the country. In ACOs, hea...
Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...
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 webinar highlighted the essential elements within care coordination strategies for the dual ...
This statistic may surprise you: Mental health conditions and mood disorders including depression...
A key element of the PCMH model is engaging patients and caregivers in their care. This paper off...
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...
This guide provides techniques, case studies and guiding principles from various fields of expert...
At Mountainside Residential Care Center's resident council, residents requested an improved dinin...
Evidence-based practice is an essential requirement of professional health care providers. Rural ...
In 2009, North Central Bronx Hospital analyzed data from its diabetes registry to identify opport...
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...
Adventist HealthCareRockville, Maryland1,045 Beds The Problem Adventist HealthCare created the C...
Barnes-Jewish HospitalSt. Louis, MO1,305 Beds The Problem Barnes-Jewish Hospital created the Cen...
Compassionate Care is a nationally recognized case management program through which Aetna's Medic...
Market forces are driving renewed interest in integration that may result in changes in the owner...
Johns Hopkins Health SystemBaltimore, MD912 Beds The Problem Hopkins ElderPlus is the Programs ...
Wishard Health ServicesIndianapolis, IN293 Beds The Problem Geriatric Resources for Assessment ...