Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

To meet patient needs in the current market, hospitals have traditionally focused their efforts o...

This paper explores the current landscape of patient-centered medical home services for patients ...

HRET and the Commonwealth Fund reviewed research findings regarding the characteristics and proce...

Achieving health care equity and eliminating health care disparities are a top goal of hospitals ...

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

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...

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

Saving lives and promoting community health certainly are commendable undertakings. To fully real...

Market forces are driving renewed interest in integration that may result in changes in the owner...

This toolkit provides a comprehensive approach to the collection of race, ethnicity and primary l...

New York-Presbyterian HospitalNew York, NY2,264 Beds The Problem New York-Presbyterian Hospital’...

This article discusses the imperitive to invest in community development as a means to improve po...

This article discusses the socioeconomic factors necessary for health in a community. The author ...

This report discusses the strenghts of community disease prevention offers and presents a framewo...

The closed-door discussion focused on the best practices of organizations that have won or were f...

An international survey of adults living with health problems and complex care needs found that p...

A Pittsburgh-based wellness program enlists entire communities to promote wellness for children.

The IOM's Roundtable on Health Literacy brings together leaders from the federal government, foun...

This annual webinar highlights thhe 2011 AHA-McKesson  Quest forQuality winners and finalists. 20...

Providing high-quality care to every child has always been the objective at Children's Mercy Hosp...

Steve Riney, Chief Information Officer at Methodist Medical Center of Illinois in Peoria, talks t...

How do you measure success in creating a culture of health? Mountain View Hospital, a 25-bed crit...

In the United States, there has been a growing health care divide between vulnerable populations ...

In this article, the author argues that health equity is best achieved by securing access to high...

This article proposes an examination of health disparities through the lens of public health to p...

This brief, based on site visits from Nov. 2009 through March 2010, highlights care coordination ...

The rate of "mortality amenable to health care" that is--deaths that are considered preventable w...

The latest Alliance issue brief reports on how collaboratives are working at the local level to i...

Throughout the United States, allied hospital associations—state, regional and metropolitan—are w...

The report provides a scientific base and practical guidance fo rengaging public health professio...

Racial and socioeconomic inequity persists in health care quality. An exploratory interview with ...

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

This guide communicates the idea that workforce and human resource practices can positively impac...

When Katherine Herrmann, the clinical quality facilitator at Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, w...

Holy Cross Hospital Health Centers are primary care medical centers that provide affordable servi...

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

This article discusses strategies to maximize improvement in overall population health and sugges...

This article argues that policy actions must focus on income security, education, housing, food s...