Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

St. Catherine Hospital, a 189-bed facility in East Chicago, Indiana, used best practices and peer...

St. John's Hospital, a 431-bed facility in Springfield, Illinois, used best practices and peer-to...

UConn John Dempsey Hospital, a 174-bed facility in Farmington, Connecticut, used best practices a...

Yuma Regional Medical Center, a 406-bed facility in Yuma, Arizona, used best practices and peer-t...

Excellent patient-centered care is the goal of a program implemented by the team at McDonough Dis...

Read about how Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare developed a minority nusing program that identifies ...

Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...

Based in the Pennsylvania cities of Allentown, Bethlehem and Hazleton, Lehigh Valley Health Netwo...

Baystate Health, based in Springfield, Mass., has two formal mentorship programs available to its...

For nearly 20 years, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Jersey has partnered with the...

The Minority Faculty Development Awards program at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cl...

The University of Mississippi Medical Center created a Healthcare Disparities Council with 40 mem...

Greenville Health System in South Carolina overhauled its leadership search and selection process...

Recognizing the need for diversity management, Sparrow Heatlh System in Lansing, Mich., hired a d...

The Institute for Diversity in Health Management's Summer Enrichment Program matches and places m...

California's Central Valley is known for its abundant fruits and vegetables; however, many famili...

The growing undergraduate public health movement in the nation is exciting; yet, concerns linger ...

The Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, a partner of the Brooklyn Health Disparities Center, ...

African immigrants and refugees represent four percent of the total population in the United Stat...

In 2013, the Connecticut Multicultural State Partnership, a non-profit health advocacy group, rec...

Increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of the nation's health professions workforce has many ...

In a this video, leaders from CHRISTUS Health provide an overview of the Equity of Care initiativ...

The National Center for Health Care Leadership's diversity leadership demonstration project is th...

Saint Anthony Health Center, Alton, Ill., took a hard look at data from its cancer program and fo...

INTEGRIS Health is the largest Oklahoma-owned health care corporation. Its facilities cover the c...

Meridian Health is a leading not-for-profit health care organization in New Jersey, comprised of ...

Many Medicare patients with life-limiting illnesses had no documented advanced directive while in...

Some patients have difficulty effectively managing their medications because they don't fully und...

A gap analysis was conducted. Key themes emerged in this analysis such as inadequate preparation ...

All practices participating in Better Health Greater Cleveland collect and submit data on patient...

The Greater Detroit Area Health Council is taking an innovative approach to reducing disparities ...

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

Founded in 1989, the Metro Community Provider Network is a nonprofit organization in the Denver M...

Established in 2007, Colorado Total Smiles is a nonprofit located in the Denver Metro area that p...

Pinnacle Health System Harrisburg, PA599 Beds The Problem Health systems are no longer simply as...

Womansplace Crisis Center is committed to working toward the elimination of violence against wome...

Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...

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

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

In December 2009, the medical center embarked on a little known and practiced procedure in the Un...

Greenville Health SystemGreenville, South Carolina786 Beds The Problem The diversity of the lead...

In 2009, the leadership team of this hospital empowered its multidisciplinary critical care commi...

The treatment of asthma requires cultural and linguistic sensitivity. Ideal treatment options req...

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

The University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health and its Center for Health Litera...

The University of Michigan Health System used lean management and the plan-do-check-act cycle to ...

The YWCA of Greater Milwaukee created a diversity training program focused on race and racism, in...

Although it is accepted that cultural competency training is a vital part of reducing health disp...

A collaborative effort among Harborview Medical Center, two massage schools, the Southeast Seattl...

The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Texas Health Institute developed a fr...

Health plans and provider communities share a need for quality information that promotes cultural...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Geriatric Education Center  provides geriatric education ...

This case study explains Barnes-Jewish Hospital's approach to training it  4,100 team members thr...

 Stanford Geriatric Education Center's geriatric training programs for health professionals are o...

This study of Spanish-speaking rural Latinos with diabetes finds that Spanish fluency is independ...

L.A. Care Health Plans developed an innovative video designed to inform deaf and hard-of-hearing ...

In a society as culturally diverse as the United States, especially in New York City,  members of...

In 2005, the University of Washington School of Medicine was awarded a grant from the National In...

Interest in cross-cultural communication in health care has increased in recent years as provider...

Good patient/provider communication correlates with greater patient satisfaction, increased patie...

Although, increasing diversity in the health care workforce and training health care providers to...

This case study describes an evidence-based residency program that applies to an international au...

The use of cross-cultural diversity forum isexamined. The forums use technology and tools to brin...

According to the Pew research center,  74 percent of all adults in the United States use the Inte...

Since 2011, a series of narrated video slideshow presentations has been under development at  Har...

Clinicians and health care providers incorporate evidence-based clinical interventions to improve...

The ADA committee at the Kaiser Woodland Hills facility was started in 2010 in an effort to compl...

This case study looks at he Joint Commission's recommendation related to culturally and linguisti...

Little is known about the unique health needs and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans...

Beginning in August 2007, the Arizona Department of Health Services' Health Disparities Center or...

The University of Connecticut's community-based education program collaborated with community par...

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Pharmacy developed a curriculum to add...

The Cancer Legal Resource Center, joint program of the Disability Rights Legal Center and Loyola ...

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

n 2008, Barnes-Jewish Hospital center for diversity and cultural competence developed an 18-hourc...

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

Today health disparities remain a constant challenge for immigrants, refugees and displaced popul...

This case study explores the process of accessing health care from the perspective of the immigra...

Many immigrant parents rely on their children to help them communicate as ad hoc interpreters in ...

There is often a lack of coordination among the various health and social systems that provide in...

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...

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

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...

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

The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...

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

Infants born to mothers electively at a gestational age of 37-39 weeks are more likely to develop...

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...

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH577 Beds Cincinnati Children’s Hospit...

Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...

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

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

Atlantic Health SystemNew Jersey1,308 Beds Atlantic Health System owns and operates Morristown M...

Ryhov HospitalJönköping, Sweden Ryhov Hospital is a county hospital in Jönköping, Sweden, with a...

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