Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Protecting workers from exposure to all types of respiratory hazards is an important issue for ho...

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

This article highlights what hospitals are doing to improve access to behavioral health services....

This toolkit from OSHA is availalbe to the public and contains references, educational resources ...

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

Scorecards aren’t just for baseball and boxing. Health care leaders are using scorecards to track...

Lake Placid and Tupper Lake, nursing homes that are part of Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, N.Y....

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

Based on the consultant’s recommendations, Lee Memorial’s (Fort Myers, Fla.) senior management de...

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

The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...

Building successful partnerships with patients and families may be a key strategy in a hospital’s...

Variation and delays in the early mobilization of patients in the ICU can result in an increased ...

Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...

April is National Minority Health Month. In 2011, the AHA and four partners formed Equity of Care...

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

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

To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...

The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...

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

This quality project evaluated the impact of translating evidence based CLABSI practice from the ...

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

This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, ...

Children with cystic fibrosis have better lung function and survival rates if their body mass ind...

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...

Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...

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

Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, a 237-bed facility in Orlando, Florida, used best practices and peer-to...

Hospital Menonita de Aibonito, a 150-bed facility in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, used best practices a...

Hospital Menonita de Cayey, a 208-bed facility in Cayey, Puerto Rico, used best practices and pee...

Los Alamitos Medical Center, a 167-bed facility in Los Alamitos, California, used best practices ...

NCH Healthcare System, a 325-bed facility in Naples, Florida, started its journey to reduce harm ...

Ponca City Medical Center, a 140-bed facility in Ponca City, Oklahoma, used HEN best practices an...

Presence Saint Joseph Hospital, a 184-bed facility in Elgin, Illinois, examined quality metrics t...

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...

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...

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

University Hospitals, Cleveland, is advancing multiple care equity initiatives. The over 2,000-be...

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

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

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

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

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

This handy visual aid illustrates the main points from "2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Benchma...

Building a culture that is inclusive and founded on principles of diversity was a “key destinatio...

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...

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...

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize annually honors hospitals and health systems that contin...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize annually honors hospitals and health systems that contin...

This HPOE webinar, held with the Institute for Diversity, highlights Henry Ford Health System, wh...

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...

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

Hospitals and health systems recognized for excellence in health care equity are sharing their wo...

This infographic provides a sample of the findings from the 2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Ben...

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