Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The CDC features a new website featuring prevention training, tools and tips for prevention pract...

May 31 - June 6, 2015, is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health...

Patient engagement is paramount to reducing readmissions and improving quality of life. That’s wh...

HPOE and Leavitt Partners worked in collaboration to detail how accountable care organizations (A...

In addition to identifying priority health needs and aligning partners and resources to address c...

In January 2011, utilizing the hospital’s system-wide electronic medical records, a family medici...

n 2013, San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center, Conejos County Hospital and five clinics officia...

Learning, sharing resources and discussing projects on cutting-edge topics in health care transfo...

Cox Health System's (Springfield, Mo.) medical leadership created a list of medical indications t...

Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...

The Muskegon Community Health Project, in partnership with Mercy Health Partners, is an inclusive...

The hospital recognized an urgent need to improve the current rate of colorectal cancer screening...

Ascension Health created a business unit called Transformational Development. It is charged with ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs home-based primary care  began in 1972.  Home-based primary ca...

 Hospital leaders struggle to provide effective care coordination to vulnerable populations. In 2...

The country’s highest presidential honor for performance excellence through innovation, improveme...

When hospitals care for victims of violence, it provides a window of opportunity to interrupt the...

Hospitals and care systems are uniquely positioned to play an integral role preventing violence i...

Building a culture of health means ensuring all people have the opportunity to live productive, h...

Working with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this infographic summarizes the findings of a re...

Working toward the Triple Aim of better care, better health and lower cost means achieving the go...

Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. Victims are subjected to force, fraud or coercion ...

AnMed Health is a non-profit health system and the largest employer in Anderson County, South Car...

The Human Services Alliance of Beaufort County is one of the oldest coalitions for health improve...

In 2006 the Board of Trustees of Greenville Health System (GHS) committed to develop a workforce ...

The Road to Better Health Spartanburg has proven that working collectively and in partnership wit...

Partnering in 2014, the AHA Committee on Research and AHA Committee on Performance Improvement fo...

This toolkit is a user-friendly “how-to” guide to help accelerate the elimination of health care ...

U.S. hospitals aree xploring what it means to be a hospital in a rapidly transforming health care...

By focusing on preventive care and health promotion, hospitals are catalyzing change in their com...

As the U.S. health care system transforms, hospitals are playing a greater role in building a cul...

Truven Health Analytics discusses key areas of focus for hospitals and care systems that want to ...

What is it? Now in its third year, Camp Med is a three-day, hands-on experience at the hospital t...

In August 2014, Campbell County Health became the first health care facility in Wyoming to be app...

Read about the many programs that Novant Health has developed around leadership diversity includi...

Creating a culture of health requires community partnerships with every major stakeholder contrib...

Change can be uncomfortable. But no matter how sophisticated, hospitals and health care systems n...

In order to achieve the Triple Aim, hospital leaders must implement strategies to achieve the Sec...

Matching patients with primary care physicians was top priority of this project improvement by th...

Matching patients with primary care physicians was top priority of this project improvement by th...

Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, worked to create a highly reliable system for follow up ...

Norwegian American Hospital, Chicago, improved both influenza and pneumococcal vaccination rates ...

There is often confusion around what is meant by the term “population health.” HPOE and the Assoc...

Albany Medical Center developed the Child Advocacy Resident Education program that aims to improv...

Montefiore Medical Center's School Health Program is the largest and most comprehensive school-ba...

How is your hospital building a culture of health in the community? That is, a culture in which a...

This guide provides a framework for hospitals and care systems to stratify patient race, ethnicit...

The Employee Flu Immunization Campaign Kit is designed to help hospitals, nursing homes, and othe...

Hospital-based Strategies for Creating a Culture of Health provides background on the Robert Wood...

The foundation of all efforts to identify disparities, improve quality, achieve equity and delive...