Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Project Perlas is a community-based participatory research project addressing disparities in mamm...

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

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

Neighborhood and environment are important determinants of health in addition to individual chara...

The Sharps Disposal Program offers a safe way for diabetics or anyone using medical sharps to dis...

St. John?s Institute for Cognitive Health and the University of Utah Center for Alzheimer?s Care,...

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...

Cambridge Health AllianceCambridge, MA229 Beds Cambridge Health Alliance is an integrated health...

Kaiser PermanenteOakland, CAKaiser Permanente is a health care provider and nonprofit health plan...

Georgia Health Sciences Health Augusta, GA632 Beds Georgia Health Sciences Health System consist...

Saint Elizabeth’s Medical CenterWabasha, MN25 Beds Saint Elizabeth’s Medical Center, part of Min...

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...

Geisinger Health SystemDanville, PA545 Beds Geisinger Health System is an integrated health serv...

Howard University HospitalWashington, DC266 Beds Howard University Hospital is a private, nonpro...

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

The Florida Hospital Association is proud to recognize the 2012 Celebration of Achievement in Qua...

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

UNC Hospitals is committed to providing a patient-centered care environment. A team of leaders is...

Fairfield Memorial Hospital identified the need to improve the patient experience in the emergenc...

Rush-Copley Medical Center collaborated with the Kane County Health Department after an outbreak ...

A multidisciplinary team was developed with objectives to provide clear, easy to understand educa...

Using Plan-Do-Study-Act, this initiative prioritized utilization of spirometry as the standard di...

The Joint Academy is a multidisciplinary team approach that begins in the community with orthoped...

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

The goal of this initiative was to improve patient flow, outcomes, and experience, as well as com...

At Mountainside Residential Care Center's resident council, residents requested an improved dinin...

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

In 2009, North Central Bronx Hospital analyzed data from its diabetes registry to identify opport...

The Brooklyn Hospital Center Family Medicine Department made a commitment to improve the quality ...

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...

Barnes-Jewish HospitalSt. Louis, MO1,305 Beds The Problem Barnes-Jewish Hospital created the Cen...

AIM focuses care on people with advanced illness, which often involves more than one chronic diag...

Compassionate Care is a nationally recognized case management program through which Aetna's Medic...

Johns Hopkins Health SystemBaltimore, MD912 Beds  The Problem Hopkins ElderPlus is the Programs ...

Wishard Health ServicesIndianapolis, IN293 Beds  The Problem Geriatric Resources for Assessment ...

SSM Saint Mary’s Medical CenterSaint Louis, MO 374 Beds The Problem Better Outcomes for Older Ad...

AtlantiCareAtlantic City, NJ538 Beds The Problem The Special Care Center is a primary care cente...

Commonwealth Care Alliance Boston, MA The Problem Commonwealth Care Alliance, which functions bo...

Montefiore Medical CenterBronx, NY1,418 Beds The Problem Montefiore Medical Center is a large, a...

Summa Health SystemAkron, OH461 Beds The Problem Summa Health System serves a five county region...

This article presents four case studies of effective community and academic partnership that impr...

The Problem ThedaCare selected its radiation oncology (rad-onc) department to kick off a systemw...

The Problem Progress West didn't so much have a problem but an opportunity. By opening a new hos...

The Problem Almost 20 percent of Medicare beneficiaries are readmitted to the hospital within 30...

The Problem According to the American Heart Association, heart failure affects about 5.7 million...

From October 2009 to February 2011, MR CHAMMP sponsored 67 programs which were provided to the co...

Mercy has participated in developing a network of health care providers and community agencies to...

The Lourdes Center for Public Health works collaboratively with academic and community partners t...

In the Pink is a program of Saint Michael's Medical Center and the program provides outreach, edu...

St. Joseph Community Health  in Albuquerque, New Mexico, wants to make sure that all children hav...

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

The program's goal is to help participants obtain knowledge about their health care options and t...

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

The concept of an Ambulatory Intensive Care Unit (A-ICU) developed because in most companies a sm...

Four "value health opportunities" have been developed for three major Minneapolis employer group...