In July of 2009, Olean General Hospital embarked on a journey to improve outcomes for cardiac pat...

September 14th, 2015

Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...

September 9th, 2015

NYU Lutheran Healthcare, Brooklyn, N.Y., created a shared medical appointment program transformin...

September 9th, 2015

Hypertension—the silent killer—impacts more than one in three Americans and is a leading cause of...

September 9th, 2015

Education that increases awareness is one of the best ways to transform health outcomes. But, as ...

September 1st, 2015

To support hospitals embarking on their population health journey, the Health Research & Educatio...

August 24th, 2015
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This year's winners of Health Care's Most Wired Survey are employing information technology to he...

August 10th, 2015
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Apps and iPads are tools of choice for improving the health of Pennsylvania schoolchildren. Lehig...

August 10th, 2015
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Read about how patient and family engagement practices are related to patient experiences. This s...

July 21st, 2015
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The Heathcare Association of New York State announced its 2015 Community Health Improvement award...

July 21st, 2015

A population health initiative in Rochester, New York, is bringing together two health care syste...

July 20th, 2015
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Massachusetts General Hospital's (MGH) 2012 community health needs assessment, in which communiti...

July 16th, 2015
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This infographic provides a summary of the HPOE guide “Partnering to Improve Quality and Safety: ...

July 14th, 2015
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Two health care systems and more than 20 community organizations are improving the health and wel...

July 6th, 2015
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In 2008, the two hospital systems partnered with the city of Whittier, the YMCA of Greater Whitti...

July 1st, 2015
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The concept of the Triple Aim is  widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...

July 1st, 2015
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This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

July 1st, 2015
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Palmetto Health has pursued multiple initiatives and strategies to promote a healthy community an...

June 22nd, 2015
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Working with community organizations, including competitors, Palmetto Health is improving the hea...

June 22nd, 2015

The project catalyst noted inconsistencies in providing diagnosis-related, evidence-based interve...

June 16th, 2015
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Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...

June 16th, 2015
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The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

June 16th, 2015
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After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...

June 10th, 2015
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National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

June 10th, 2015
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The Wisconsin Quality of Life Index is a multidimensional model for measuring patients’ quality o...

June 9th, 2015
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July 2009-October 2011 baseline data for the blood culture contamination rate in the ED showed it...

June 8th, 2015
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When River Hospital, Alexandria Bay, N.Y., identified an unmet mental health need for active duty...

June 8th, 2015
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As part of Blueprint for Health (a statewide, public-private initiative authorized by the Vermont...

June 7th, 2015
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Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...

June 4th, 2015
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The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...

June 3rd, 2015
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There are opportunities around the country for dramatic innovation in the way health systems tran...

June 3rd, 2015
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The CDC features a new website featuring prevention training, tools and tips for prevention pract...

June 3rd, 2015
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and CVS Health will colaborate to put lifesaving...

June 3rd, 2015
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To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...

June 2nd, 2015
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May 31 - June 6, 2015, is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health...

June 2nd, 2015
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Patient engagement is paramount to reducing readmissions and improving quality of life. That’s wh...

May 18th, 2015
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HPOE and Leavitt Partners worked in collaboration to detail how accountable care organizations (A...

May 12th, 2015
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In addition to identifying priority health needs and aligning partners and resources to address c...

May 6th, 2015
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In January 2011, utilizing the hospital’s system-wide electronic medical records, a family medici...

May 5th, 2015
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n 2013, San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center, Conejos County Hospital and five clinics officia...

April 27th, 2015
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United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia, N.Y., focused on patients with congestive heart failure,...

April 21st, 2015
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South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside, N.Y., focused on educating patients with chronic co...

April 21st, 2015
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Lake Placid and Tupper Lake, nursing homes that are part of Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, N.Y....

April 21st, 2015
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Based on the consultant’s recommendations, Lee Memorial’s (Fort Myers, Fla.) senior management de...

April 16th, 2015
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Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...

April 15th, 2015
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The Muskegon Community Health Project, in partnership with Mercy Health Partners, is an inclusive...

April 14th, 2015
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The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...

April 11th, 2015
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Building successful partnerships with patients and families may be a key strategy in a hospital’s...

April 6th, 2015

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

April 3rd, 2015
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Ascension Health created a business unit called Transformational Development. It is charged with ...

April 2nd, 2015
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