Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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...

May 13-19 is National Women's Health Week, a project of the U.S. Health and Human Services' Offic...

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

For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...

For 18 years, Community House Calls, a UW Medicine program of Harborview Medical Center in Seattl...

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

This webinar highlighted the essential elements within care coordination strategies for the dual ...

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...

Achieving health care equity and eliminating health care disparities are a top goal of hospitals ...

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

Evidence-based practice is an essential requirement of professional health care providers. Rural ...

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...

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...

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

The hospital partnered with the Wyoming Department of Health to work to eliminate health disparit...

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

This toolkit provides a comprehensive approach to the collection of race, ethnicity and primary l...

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

New York-Presbyterian HospitalNew York, NY2,264 Beds The Problem New York-Presbyterian Hospital’...

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

Care coordination is challenging for complex and vulnerable patient populations. Montefiore Medic...

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...

The IOM's Roundtable on Health Literacy brings together leaders from the federal government, foun...

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

Providing high-quality care to every child has always been the objective at Children's Mercy Hosp...

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...

In this article, the author argues that health equity is best achieved by securing access to high...

This article proposes an examination of health disparities through the lens of public health to p...

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...

Listening to patients and the community can spark change. The Lehigh Valley Health Network, in ea...

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...

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

Racial and socioeconomic inequity persists in health care quality. An exploratory interview with ...

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

Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...

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

The Diversity & Inclusion Council was developed to create and sustain an organizational culture t...

Mercy Health Partners  and Saint Mary's Health Care will be participating in the Improving Langua...

The St. Francis Medical Center Kitty DeGree Breast Health Center employs a full-time breast healt...

St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, Conn., has taken a lead role in creating the Hope Dis...

The Healthy Start/Healthy Families program primary goal is preventing chronic health problems in ...

The Franciscan Clinic was designed with the idea that all employees who carry the hospital's insu...

Migrant Health Promotion strives to improve the ability of migrant farm worker families to live h...

Equity in Care was initiated by Trinity Health in 2009 and has grown to include identifying poten...

These programs take health education, information and related services directly to community memb...

This article discusses strategies to maximize improvement in overall population health and sugges...

This article discusses definitions of population health and how various models of can operational...