Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This HPOE webinar, held in conjunction with the Institute for Diversity in Health Management, fea...

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

This webinar introduces and explains the ONC-sponsored SAFER guides, which can be found at http:/...

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

Lean Six Sigma tools were used to reduce pressure ulcers at Memorial Health System, Springfield, ...

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

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

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 ...

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

OSF Healthcare, Peoria, Ill., wanted to improve the care of patients experiencing an ST elevation...

OSF Healthcare, Peoria, Ill., wanted to improve the care of patients experiencing an ST elevation...

Presence St. Mary’s Hospital, Kankakee, Ill., improved readmission rates for heart failure patien...

Pekin (Ill.) Hospital used plan-do-study-act with evidence-based practice research, guidelines re...

Hospitals and care systems across the country are engaged in quality improvement efforts to impro...

Although rare and difficult to study, wrong-site surgery is a serious risk recognized by health c...

Cybersecurity vulnerabilities and intrusions pose risks for every hospital and its reputation. Wh...

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...

It is estimated that 25 percent of falls by hospital patients are preventable. Saint Alphonsus Re...

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

Care for people with multiple chronic health conditions is often fragmented, resulting in increas...

The May 2014 edition of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved highlights lingui...

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

Since 2010, the academic medical center has been supporting a program to reduce 30-day all cause ...

Population health is receiving increased attention for its role in improving health care, specifi...

The Missouri Hospital Association issued the Standardized, Plain Language Emergency Codes Impleme...

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

Results from an Association for Community Health Improvement and American Hospital Association Su...

A “simple” complex plan is reducing readmissions at Wythe County Community Hospital, a 100-bed fa...

Reducing health care disparities is a growing national priority and state hospital associations a...

This article discusses how using health adjusted life expectacy could bridge the gap between clin...

Healthy Communities of Clinton County Coalition Two teams of community members--a coalition of h...

Fletcher Allen Health Care's  Community Benefit CommitteeBurlington, VT About the Initiative:In ...

This report highlights nearly 80 evidence-based disease and injury prevention programs. These pro...

After a decade of war and an unprecedented number of combat deployments, our service members, vet...

Goal-Save lives, reduce suffering and lower costs related to complications of surgery. Developed...

Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Network GoalsReduce patient harm by 40 percent and ...

St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Conn. 396 licensed beds Full-service teaching hospi...

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare (Glendale, Wis.) 11 hospitals, 70 clinic sites, three long-term ...

Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...

This guide includes two sections that address collection and use of patient race, ethnicity and l...

A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...

A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...

Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...

The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...

This guide describes a three-step action plan from the On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI project that helps...

Many of the nation's hospitals and health systems have made progress laying the building blocks f...

Doctors Hospital of Manteca/Tenet HealthcareManteca, CABeds: 73 The ProblemRealizing high-alert ...

The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...

How do you successfully integrate behavioral health and primary care? A recent HPOE webinar highl...

Throughout the past decade, there has been a substantial increase in the national frequency of po...

New Ulm Medical CenterNew Ulm, MN45 Beds The Problem New Ulm Medical Center, a critical access h...

Wrangell Medical CenterWrangell, AK22 Beds The Problem Wrangell Medical Center is located in Wra...

Cheyenne Regional Medical CenterCheyenne, WY222 Beds The Problem Cheyenne Regional Medical Cente...

This report indentifies and explains guiding principles to inform the implementation ofCommunity ...

Providing the very best care—the goal of all hospitals and care givers—must include an understand...

Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and Northern Counties Health Care, Inc.,  have had a long-...

Holy Cross Hospital could be characterized as an emergency department with critical care units. T...

Chambers County was designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration as one of the ...

Davis Health System is a health care network that includes 90-bed Davis Memorial Hospital, 12-bed...

ProMedica’s (NW Ohio and SE Michigan) mission is to improve the health and well-being of the peop...

Providing culturally competent care to patients requires a focus on more than just race, ethnicit...

There were between 462,000 and 636,000 CLABSIs in nonneonatal critical care patients in the Unite...

The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quali...

Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typic...

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

Data suggests that the hospital has a three year (2006-2009) CHF readmission average of 24.2 perc...

An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

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

Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...

Preoperative/procedure testing for surgical, cardiac catheterization and scheduled C-section pati...

Early and safe mobility of critically ill patients in a cardiovascular surgical intensive care un...

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

To help those with reading and language challenges, UVA Health System staff developed a curriculu...