Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

If you build a community of care, people will come. It happened when Middlesex Hospital, in Middl...

Learn from the best of the best. The 2013 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize® recipients will s...

This report discusses the importance of health in all policies, an approach to improving health b...

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

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

How do you successfully integrate behavioral health and primary care? A recent HPOE webinar highl...

Providing quality care for patients with limited English proficiency can be challenging, even for...

There is a growing need to improve health care, especially at the interface between general medic...

Being accessible only by airplane or boat adds to the scenic character of Wrangell, Alaska (popul...

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

Holy Cross Hospital could be characterized as an emergency department with critical care units. T...

Chambers County was designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration as one of the ...

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

The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quali...

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

The chair files highlight stories of hospitals and health systems that are implementing innovativ...

The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...

 HPOE is pleased to highlight case studies from the Illinois Hospital Association’s Institute f...

Disparities in care were noted for diabetes, cardio vascular disease and cancer screeening for Hm...

Kaiser Permanente, as an integrated health care delivery system, has made significant progress to...

African American older adults are at greater risk of depression due to the higher incidence of ch...

Transforming organizations, such as academic health centers or teaching hospitals, toward creatin...

The driving principle behind the outpatient service excellence journey is excellent customer serv...

This primer discusses community benefit laws across the United States, noting differences in fede...

Today we need leaders who can help address the challenges and maximize the tremendous opportuniti...

Southcentral FoundationAnchorage, AK150 beds A nonprofit health care organization owned by the A...

Informed Medical Decisions FoundationBoston, MAThe Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, founded...

Emory HealthcareAtlanta, GA Emory Healthcare, a large academic teaching system, deployed a patie...

Use this tool to assess whether your health-related organization or system, or coalition of organ...

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

The move from volume- to value-based care has profound implications for those who design, build a...

Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...

Palliative care specializes in taking care of patients with serious illness and focuses on provid...

Now, more than ever, hospitals and health system CEOs cannot sit on their hands as new care deliv...

Assisted living facilities allow residents to "age in place" by adjusting their level of care and...

At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients the...

Kaiser Permanente developed a home-based model of palliative care that uses an interdisciplinary ...

Bernard J. Tyson, a Kaiser Permanente employee and leader for 28 years and its chief operating of...

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...

Acute care hospitals have been establishing palliative programs at a rapid pace; the United States n...

In 1996, as the growth in managed care increased the role for general internists and primary care...

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

This report is part of a new effort to provide medical students with information about the patter...

AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

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

In an Oct. 17 webinar presented by Becker's Hospital Review, Scott Becker, a partner at McGuireWo...

At-large members are individuals in health care with an interest in the activities of the AHA and...

The American Organization of Nurse Executives is the national organization of nurses who design, ...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...

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...