Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This toolkit presents Muskegon County's Community Health Needs Assessment  process and results, a...

Studies suggest that the presence of multiple chronic conditions (MCC) adds a layer of complexity...

UNC Hospitals is committed to providing a patient-centered care environment. A team of leaders is...

A collection of 10 short essays by the industry luminaries who have received HRET's TRUST Award s...

Partner's created the Center for Connected Health to promote technology-enabled innovations in te...

Kaiser maintains a number of operating units to identify and test innovations. The Center for Tot...

The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...

Quality is the first word that comes to mind when we talk about the American Hospital Association...

Fully two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. One-third of American children are overwei...

This chartpack offers a snapshot of some common strategies used to improve the quality of care th...

This article discusses divergent concepts of population health between care delivery systems and ...

Fairfield Memorial Hospital identified the need to improve the patient experience in the emergenc...

Rush-Copley Medical Center collaborated with the Kane County Health Department after an outbreak ...

A multidisciplinary team was developed with objectives to provide clear, easy to understand educa...

The OSF cardiac service line implemented a STEMI Improvement project to identify obstacles that c...

May 13-19 is National Women's Health Week, a project of the U.S. Health and Human Services' Offic...

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are forming in communities across the country. In ACOs, hea...

Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Until recently, Stony Brook University Medical Center's approach to core measure data consisted o...

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...

The hospital partnered with the Wyoming Department of Health to work to eliminate health disparit...

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

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’...

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

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

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...

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...

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

Ten existential questions will make the difference between limping into the future and soaring to...

As the largest segment of the health care workforce, with more than 3 million professionals, nurs...

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

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 ...

The Leapfrog Group, a consortium of public and private employers who purchase health care for mor...

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

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

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...

As America's hospitals and health systems are transforming care, hospitals are facing challenges ...

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 ...