Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This guide provides hospital leaders with a snapshot of hospitals' current readiness to participa...

For 18 years, Community House Calls, a UW Medicine program of Harborview Medical Center in Seattl...

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

This webinar highlighted the essential elements within care coordination strategies for the dual ...

Walk into an ER for treatment and walk out with a medical home. Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospit...

This statistic may surprise you: Mental health conditions and mood disorders including depression...

A key element of the PCMH model is engaging patients and caregivers in their care. This paper off...

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

This paper examines successful approaches to delivering mental health treatment in primary care a...

This brief describes how decisionmakers can encourage a model of care that truly reflects the nee...

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

As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

This guide provides techniques, case studies and guiding principles from various fields of expert...

Teamwork benefits seniors, too. A partnership between Wishard Health Services?a large safety net ...

The Joint Academy is a multidisciplinary team approach that begins in the community with orthoped...

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

The goal of this initiative was to improve patient flow, outcomes, and experience, as well as com...

At Mountainside Residential Care Center's resident council, residents requested an improved dinin...

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

In 2009, North Central Bronx Hospital analyzed data from its diabetes registry to identify opport...

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...

Adventist HealthCareRockville, Maryland1,045 Beds The Problem Adventist HealthCare created the C...

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

AIM focuses care on people with advanced illness, which often involves more than one chronic diag...

Compassionate Care is a nationally recognized case management program through which Aetna's Medic...

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

Johns Hopkins Health SystemBaltimore, MD912 Beds  The Problem Hopkins ElderPlus is the Programs ...

Wishard Health ServicesIndianapolis, IN293 Beds  The Problem Geriatric Resources for Assessment ...

SSM Saint Mary’s Medical CenterSaint Louis, MO 374 Beds The Problem Better Outcomes for Older Ad...

AtlantiCareAtlantic City, NJ538 Beds The Problem The Special Care Center is a primary care cente...

Commonwealth Care Alliance Boston, MA The Problem Commonwealth Care Alliance, which functions bo...

Montefiore Medical CenterBronx, NY1,418 Beds The Problem Montefiore Medical Center is a large, a...

Summa Health SystemAkron, OH461 Beds The Problem Summa Health System serves a five county region...

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 necessity of health information technology to effectively and systemati...

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

Carolinas HealthCare System, based in Charlotte, N.C., is partnering with 12 YMCA branches "to cr...

Care coordination is challenging for complex and vulnerable patient populations. Montefiore Medic...

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have the promise to transform how health care is delivered ...

During this 90 minute session, speakers discussed how to effectively engage patients and their fa...

The National Committee for Quality Assurance starts an accountable care organization accreditati...

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.

This policy paper examines the latest developments in accountable care organizations (ACOs), incl...

Among the health promotion and cost-control strategies included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ...

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

Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...

The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions designed to encourage greater coordination an...

Restructuring care has reduced readmissions at St. Mary?s Duluth (MN) Clinic Heart and Vascular ...

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

This white paper introduces an overall approach and tools designed to support two processes: the ...

The business adage "what gets measured gets managed" applies in health care. Two projects focus o...

n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...

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

This article describes the development of the regional health collaborative, a population-based h...

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...

This webpage gives consumers resources and tools to be actively engaged in the quality of the car...

This website gives history and information to patients, providers, payers of western New York sta...

A report released jointly by AARP's Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN F...

The U.S. is facing an epidemic of chronic disease at the same time as it's facing tough decisions...

The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...

This report summarizes the results of that survey, which indicated that overall influenza vaccina...

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

This article discusses the evidence base behind population health management and explores the fut...

"We will open the doors." This was no magic incantation. Instead, the critical care unit at Virgi...

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

This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a...

Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii, used "a novel approach" to ...

March 6-12 is designated as National Patient Safety Awareness Week...and we know that America's h...

The journey from good to great for Good Samaritan Hospital of Baltimore started with differentiat...

The US Department of Veterans Affairs comprehensive Clinical Practice program brings together VA ...

This 46-page document reviews the history of Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives and consi...

This report discussses the Center for Disease Control's involvement with Prevention Research Cent...

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

This report discusses the process of conducting a Health Impact Assessment and proposes a busines...

The Urgency of Health System Reforms to Ensure Respect for Patients'  Wishes and Accou...

After defining patient-centered medical homes, this report discusses particular opportunities and...

The federal health reform legislation includes several demonstration projects that will be held i...

The report focuses on the overall concept of ACOs. And also provides special focus on the specifi...

This article addresses health care innovations that can help improve population and meet future h...

As the automobile industry in Flint, Mich., has declined, area residents have faced significant s...

"There are two jobs at Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare, Utica, N.Y. "taking care of patients directl...

Aesop?s fable "The Bundle of Sticks" teaches a lesson in working together: "Union gives strength....

Extending services beyond the hospital walls to its most vulnerable patients?that is the goal of ...

The Problem ThedaCare selected its radiation oncology (rad-onc) department to kick off a systemw...

The Problem Progress West didn't so much have a problem but an opportunity. By opening a new hos...

The Problem Almost 20 percent of Medicare beneficiaries are readmitted to the hospital within 30...

The Problem According to the American Heart Association, heart failure affects about 5.7 million...

This article discusses the role of information technology to achieve population health goals.

From October 2009 to February 2011, MR CHAMMP sponsored 67 programs which were provided to the co...

Mercy has participated in developing a network of health care providers and community agencies to...

The Lourdes Center for Public Health works collaboratively with academic and community partners t...

In the Pink is a program of Saint Michael's Medical Center and the program provides outreach, edu...

St. Joseph Community Health  in Albuquerque, New Mexico, wants to make sure that all children hav...

The Healthy Start/Healthy Families program primary goal is preventing chronic health problems in ...

The program's goal is to help participants obtain knowledge about their health care options and t...

Migrant Health Promotion strives to improve the ability of migrant farm worker families to live h...