Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Hospitals strive to achieve the Triple Aim. This collection of case studies features three exampl...

The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

The NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System implemented multidisciplinary ICU mobilization teams t...

North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System opened a facility to treet heavioral health and prim...

NYU Lutheran Healthcare, Brooklyn, N.Y., created a shared medical appointment program transformin...

Addressing the complex needs of older patients and their caregivers is the focus of the Bridge Mo...

The Bridge Model improves transitions of care by utilizing master’s-educated social workers in a ...

The Heathcare Association of New York State announced its 2015 Community Health Improvement award...

In 2008, the two hospital systems partnered with the city of Whittier, the YMCA of Greater Whitti...

The concept of the Triple Aim is  widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

Palmetto Health has pursued multiple initiatives and strategies to promote a healthy community an...

Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in...

After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...

This project was designed to improve the total health care for patients of a community mental hea...

This toolkit has tips on  Selecting Patients and Families to Serve as Advisors Preparation fo...

The Wisconsin Quality of Life Index is a multidimensional model for measuring patients’ quality o...

When River Hospital, Alexandria Bay, N.Y., identified an unmet mental health need for active duty...

Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...

At hospitals, health care systems and state, regional and metropolitan hospital associations acro...

This article highlights what hospitals are doing to improve access to behavioral health services....

Sylvia Getman, president and CEO of the Aroostook Medical Center and senior vice president of Eas...

Lake Placid and Tupper Lake, nursing homes that are part of Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, N.Y....

The Muskegon Community Health Project, in partnership with Mercy Health Partners, is an inclusive...

With the rapid pace of health care transformation hospitals are looking at ways to redefine the "...

Ascension Health created a business unit called Transformational Development. It is charged with ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs home-based primary care  began in 1972.  Home-based primary ca...

This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, ...

With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, decisions made at the state level pla...

Matching patients with primary care physicians was top priority of this project improvement by th...

Matching patients with primary care physicians was top priority of this project improvement by th...

Preventing falls has been in the news recently, and with good reason: Among older adults, falls a...

OSF Healthcare, Peoria, Ill., wanted to improve the care of patients experiencing an ST elevation...

The answer is HPOE.org. The question: Where do hospital and care system leaders find resources an...

With four hospitals and more than 120 employed medical providers, St. Charles Health System is a ...

Three Illinois hospitals received recognition for “delivering quality with distinction” by the Il...

The Stars of the Field is H&HN's second annual AHA awards issue. Hospitals that are making tremen...

Managing population health, financial planning for value-based care and payment, and leading impr...

This article highlights the success of a pilot project between Park Nicollet hospital, St. Louis ...

Transition coaches may be the “glue” between hospital visits and primary care. So says Julie Cann...

Today’s hospital and care system leaders are addressing challenges while maximizing opportunities...

At hospitals, health care systems and state, regional and metropolitan hospital associations acro...

This article found that county characteristics are independently associated with higher hospital ...

The winds of change in health care are swirling around us: shifting patient and workforce demogra...

This infographic shows what 40-year-old Americans would pay for a second-lowest-cost silver excha...

This case study describes a pilot program to find out the effect that integrative behavioral heal...

One in four Americans experiences a behavioral health illness or substance abuse disorder each ye...

This Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence guide explains the value of integrating physical and beha...

Redefine. Partner. Integrate. Experiment. Specialize. Many hospitals and care systems are embarki...

Preventing hospital-acquired infections, reducing surgical complications and reducing readmission...