Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Approximately 24 million people--8.5 percent of the U.S. population--are defined as having Limite...

In order to deliver the highest quality and most appropriate health care, Georgia Health Sciences...

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, a division of Wheaton Franciscan Services, Inc., is a Catholic, no...

Examples of and the rationale for strategies used to foster critical consciousness in the work of...

The need for cultural competence among physician providers is widely recognized by accrediting bo...

As the United States becomes increasingly diverse and as individuals choose to be more acculturat...

A team was created to ensure that all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, language, disabilit...

A commitment to diversity came first. That was followed by specific action projects to increase d...

Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...

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

Methodist Le Bonheur HealthcareMemphis, TN1,321 Beds The Congregational Health Network is a part...

Among California's African American, Native American, Latino and Hmong populations, a diagnosis o...

Patient-reported experiences of care are an important focus in health disparities research. This ...

The Association of American Medical Colleges is pleased to present Diversity in Medical Education...

Sandy Hausman reports on the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, a Commonwealth Fund-supported de...

SHCA is a not-for-profit health care organization dedicated to serving those who advocate in the ...

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

The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...

This web seminar provided participants with information about diversity management, cultural comp...

Though more work needs to be done, our nation's hospitals are making advancements in providing qu...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...

Although Maryland enjoys the third highest median income in the United States, the state suffers ...

Among the agencies that have made a substantial effort toward competency is the Nursing Home Ombu...

During this webinar, hear how AnMed Health is applying the principles of REaL (race, ethnicity an...

This web seminar highlighted improvements in staff training and building the culturally competent...

The results from a 32-month long national collaborative, Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac...

Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

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

Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

San Mateo Medical Center San Mateo, CA307 Beds The Problem San Mateo Medical Center has collecte...

University of Mississippi Medical CenterJackson, MS623 Beds The Problem University of Mississipp...

University HospitalsCleveland, OH1,032 Beds The Problem To address the changing demographics of ...

This article assesses the potential impact of P4P on national hospital disparities using a two-me...

Children's Mercy Hospitals & ClinicsKansas City, MO265 Beds The Problem The patient population a...

This article discusses preliminary findings from the National Congress of American Indians Policy...

The objective of this study was to describe health plan efforts to collect language data from its...

Representatives from Catholic Health Initiatives in Denver, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in...

HHS final standards for data collection on race, ethnicity, sex, primary language and disability ...

In 2003 the Institute of Medicine called on health plans to collect data on their members  race a...

The October issue focuses on disparities in health care, including an article on high-cost, low-q...

A video on how to care for blind or sight-impaired individuals in a hospital

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

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

Changing demographics continue to fuel the growth of cultural diversity in Northeast Ohio. In tur...

The guide is a resource for those interested or already engaged in quality improvement initiative...

This site, sponsored by the Office of Minority Health, offers the latest resources and tools to p...

Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitiviti...

This guide serves to explore the concept of cultural competency and build the case for the enhanc...

The patient population of Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass., seemed to lack diversity. But by ac...