Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

Secondary analysis of data from two studies examining palliative care in rural areas was conducte...

Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...

The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...

Clinical integration is needed to facilitate the coordination of patient care across conditions, ...

How to solve the problem? Many practices have found the answer in the creation of high-functionin...

America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, say...

An article on the SF Gate website profiles the new wave of medical school graduates, millennial a...

Compassionate and cost effective is how Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Fla., des...

Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...

Between March and June 2012, Jackson Healthcare conducted a series of online physician surveys th...

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

Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...

A collection of 10 short essays by the industry luminaries who have received HRET's TRUST Award s...

Mayo Clinic has four operating unites to create new tools, processes and businesses. The Division...

Partner's created the Center for Connected Health to promote technology-enabled innovations in te...

Kaiser maintains a number of operating units to identify and test innovations. The Center for Tot...

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

As part of Franciscan St. James Health's commitment to improve the surgery processes, the hospita...

This list features five recommendations for family medicine. The goal is to identify items: commo...

This list was created by the AAAAI executive committee. The goal is to identify items: common in ...

The American College of Cardiology asked its standing clinical councils to recommend between thre...

The group collaboratively identified and narrowed down screening or diagnostic tests commonly use...

An initial list of topics was narrowed down based on the highest potential for improvement, repre...

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...

This decision-maker brief offers programmatic and policy changes that can help practices, especia...

This guide describes how HCAHPS data should be used in context with other information about organ...

This report utilizes Dartmouth Atlas data to show differences in resource utilization among the 2...

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

South Nassau Communities Hospital initiated the "Knot So Fast" project to promote a safe and effi...

Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...

For the past three years, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center has been develop...

Traditionally, primary care physicians maintain chief responsibility for treating their criticall...

In 2006, Southampton Hospital's department of nursing conducted a needs assessment focusing on th...

Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...

St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester, division of Saint Joseph's Medical Center began this initiati...

The goal of this initiative was to improve patient flow, outcomes, and experience, as well as com...

AIM focuses care on people with advanced illness, which often involves more than one chronic diag...

The Respecting Choices' advance care planning program, developed in La Crosse, Wisconsin, is a mu...

In 2006, Ascension Health, the nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit health care system, chose ...

Johns Hopkins Health SystemBaltimore, MD912 Beds  The Problem Hopkins ElderPlus is the Programs ...

Wishard Health ServicesIndianapolis, IN293 Beds  The Problem Geriatric Resources for Assessment ...

AtlantiCareAtlantic City, NJ538 Beds The Problem The Special Care Center is a primary care cente...

Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

Commonwealth Care Alliance Boston, MA The Problem Commonwealth Care Alliance, which functions bo...

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

This report provides a guide to conducting health impact assessments. It stresses the importance ...

Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio, OpenNotes is being tested by...

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

Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...

In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conduc...

Health care executives have to ensure that new care models are implemented effectively and improv...

Ten existential questions will make the difference between limping into the future and soaring to...

As the largest segment of the health care workforce, with more than 3 million professionals, nurs...

The National Committee for Quality Assurance starts an accountable care organization accreditati...

The IPAL Project, an initiative of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, is designed to provide ...

CAPC Campus Online is an e-learning space covering the structural, operational and financial ess...

This paper explores the current limits of primary care in the US, looks at illustrative models th...

The federal Affordable Care Act will transform how Californians obtain health insurance. CHCF exa...

As the use of palliative care grows, so does the diversity of patients who opt for it. A free cur...

The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...

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

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

Restructuring care has reduced readmissions at St. Mary?s Duluth (MN) Clinic Heart and Vascular ...

The SUNY Downsstate Medical Center kidney transplant team identified an increase in the differenc...

The Leapfrog Group, a consortium of public and private employers who purchase health care for mor...

In a recent study, the non-profit Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. ranks 16th out of 16 nati...

The Rand Health Insurance Experiment found that patients had little or no control over their hea...

A report released jointly by AARP's Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN F...

Reining in health care costs has become a central policy challenge for government and a pressing ...

The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...

This sponsored supplement explores the challenges of investing for lower-cost devices, services a...

Transplant recipients are fragile patients, at high risk for infections and fluid and electrolyte...

This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a...

To expertly execute a dribble handoff in basketball, communication between teammates is key. How ...

This study examined SSDI applications between 2005 and 2006, focusing on a "natural experiment" t...

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

Seamless, effective patient handoffs are a critical piece of any hospital?s patient safety framew...

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

At Columbia St. Mary's Hospital, Milwaukee, discharge planning truly begins at admission. Care te...

After attending a 2005 conference on trauma-informed care, two nurses at Chambersburg (Pa.) Hospi...

Extending services beyond the hospital walls to its most vulnerable patients?that is the goal of ...

A report based on an invitational forum held on March 13, 2009, sponsored by Medically Induced Tr...

The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...

The Problem The Pitt Country Memorial Hospital leadership team decided to reduce surgical compli...

The Problem The women and infants department's lean journey began in early 2006 when a local hos...

The report recommends improved ways in which primary care practices should be paid for delivering...

The TriCentral Palliative Care Program toolkit presents a wide range of educational, technical as...