Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Concord (N.H.) Hospital • 230-bed regional medical center • 17,194 admissions • 295 medical staff...

Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, Jackson, Miss.– 633 beds– 3,000-plus employees In 1997, Miss...

Telepsychiatry is playing a pivotal role in providing timely care to hospitalized mental health p...

This webinar examined best practices and lessons from the field on health care transformation ini...

More than 64 million surgeries are performed annually in the United States. Preventing surgical s...

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

Ensuring the highest quality for patient care means continuously reviewing processes and outcomes...

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

April is National Minority Health Month. Launched in April 2001 by the National Minority Health F...

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...

 HPOE is pleased to highlight case studies from the Illinois Hospital Association’s Institute f...

This webinar from Health Resources in Action discusses the benefits of hospital-community collabo...

Greenville Health SystemGreenville, South Carolina786 Beds The Problem The diversity of the lead...

The Backyard Initiative at Allina Health, based in Minnesota, is truly taking care beyond hospita...

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...

The University of Michigan Health System used lean management and the plan-do-check-act cycle to ...

The YWCA of Greater Milwaukee created a diversity training program focused on race and racism, in...

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

The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Texas Health Institute developed a fr...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Geriatric Education Center  provides geriatric education ...

This case study explains Barnes-Jewish Hospital's approach to training it  4,100 team members thr...

The Illinois Department of Public Health, Center for Minority Services is using mobile messaging ...

This study of Spanish-speaking rural Latinos with diabetes finds that Spanish fluency is independ...

In a society as culturally diverse as the United States, especially in New York City,  members of...

In 2005, the University of Washington School of Medicine was awarded a grant from the National In...

This case study describes an evidence-based residency program that applies to an international au...

The use of cross-cultural diversity forum isexamined. The forums use technology and tools to brin...

According to the Pew research center,  74 percent of all adults in the United States use the Inte...

Since 2011, a series of narrated video slideshow presentations has been under development at  Har...

The Tool for Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments program seeks to enable raising com...

The ADA committee at the Kaiser Woodland Hills facility was started in 2010 in an effort to compl...

This case study looks at he Joint Commission's recommendation related to culturally and linguisti...

Little is known about the unique health needs and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans...

The University of Connecticut's community-based education program collaborated with community par...

Kaiser Permanente, as an integrated health care delivery system, has made significant progress to...

n 2008, Barnes-Jewish Hospital center for diversity and cultural competence developed an 18-hourc...

Project Perlas is a community-based participatory research project addressing disparities in mamm...

Today health disparities remain a constant challenge for immigrants, refugees and displaced popul...

This case study explores the process of accessing health care from the perspective of the immigra...

Many immigrant parents rely on their children to help them communicate as ad hoc interpreters in ...

There is often a lack of coordination among the various health and social systems that provide in...

Neighborhood and environment are important determinants of health in addition to individual chara...

Approximately 24 million people--8.5 percent of the U.S. population--are defined as having Limite...

Transforming organizations, such as academic health centers or teaching hospitals, toward creatin...

Examples of and the rationale for strategies used to foster critical consciousness in the work of...

As the United States becomes increasingly diverse and as individuals choose to be more acculturat...

After identification of an opportunity to reduce CAUTIs, leadership headed an initiative to reduc...

Harm/hospital-acquired condition reports were sent to each hospital. In reviewing both campuses, ...

To reduce the time to first dose of antibiotics to directly admitted pediatric oncology patients ...

The critical care unit identified VAP as an area for improvement, with three VAPs from May-July 2...

Effective care transitions programs can do more than improve patient care: patients learn to mana...

Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...

The medical center’s mission was to reduce the C. difficile rate from 26.7 cases per 10,000 patie...

A team was created to ensure that all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, language, disabilit...

An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...

This webinar provided an understanding of how scientific operations management and IHO Variabilit...

A commitment to diversity came first. That was followed by specific action projects to increase d...

A commitment to diversity came first. That was followed by specific action projects to increase d...

This primer discusses community benefit laws across the United States, noting differences in fede...

Development of a Norwood Clinic allowed the quality improvement team to create goals to decrease ...

The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...

Written by HRET staff member Cynthia Hedges Greising and AHA-NPSF Comprehensive Patient Safety Fe...

The AHA’s framework for health reform, Health for Life, embraces the need to engage patients and ...

Year after year, America’s hospitals respond to meet pressing community health care needs. In 200...

The program director created the Individuals Combining Activity and Nutrition (ICAN) pilot progra...

Platte County holds free birthing classes for expectant parents three times per year in January, ...

Healthy Woman is a community that empowers women with the confidence to make informed health care...

The Sharps Disposal Program offers a safe way for diabetics or anyone using medical sharps to dis...

St. John?s Institute for Cognitive Health and the University of Utah Center for Alzheimer?s Care,...

he camp, a collaboration with Area Health Education Center (AHEC) and the University of Wyoming C...

Griffin HospitalDerby, CT160 Beds Griffin Hospital is the flagship hospital for Planetree, Inc.,...

Kaiser PermanenteOakland, CAKaiser Permanente is a health care provider and nonprofit health plan...

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH577 Beds Cincinnati Children’s Hospit...

Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...

Atlantic Health SystemNew Jersey1,308 Beds Atlantic Health System owns and operates Morristown M...

Howard University HospitalWashington, DC266 Beds Howard University Hospital is a private, nonpro...

Ryhov HospitalJönköping, Sweden Ryhov Hospital is a county hospital in Jönköping, Sweden, with a...

Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders were at a higher risk of po...

This book provides practical skills for building communities. Chapters three, four and five addre...

This website provides a wealth of resources on CommunityHealth Needs Assessment and the related I...

In 2012 the AHA Committee on Research focused on actively engaging health care users to improve o...

During 2012, despite economic challenges, hospitals and health care systems throughout the United...

The Community Guide is a resource for evidence-based task force recommendations and findings abou...

In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...

In August 2010, the Center for Transforming Healthcare launched its fourth project which aims to ...

The 2012 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality award winners and finalists are highlighted in this webin...

One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...

Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

Among California's African American, Native American, Latino and Hmong populations, a diagnosis o...

 For baby boomers, the peak interest in health issues comes at about age 51, with a second peak c...

Now, more than ever, hospitals and health system CEOs cannot sit on their hands as new care deliv...

While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...

Assisted living facilities allow residents to "age in place" by adjusting their level of care and...

At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients the...

The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...

A monograph from the Association of American Medical Colleges, in partnership with the Institute ...