Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

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 provides a guide to conducting health impact assessments. It stresses the importance ...

This article discusses preliminary findings from the National Congress of American Indians Policy...

This report discusses the necessity of health information technology to effectively and systemati...

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

This report provides a detailed discussion of baseline health spending by state of residence (per...

The objective of this study was to describe health plan efforts to collect language data from its...

In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conduc...

To promote healthy communities, hospitals must lead the way and serve as role models. A recent AH...

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

Frequently Asked Questions regarding implementation of the market reform provisions of the Affor...

Representatives from Catholic Health Initiatives in Denver, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in...

In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...

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

This paper explores the current limits of primary care in the US, looks at illustrative models th...

The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...

Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient ca...

"App" and "austerity" were among the 2010 "words of the year" named by a dialect society and dict...

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

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

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

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

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

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

Vermont begins building a single-payer health system that will move many state residents into a p...

In 2003 the Institute of Medicine called on health plans to collect data on their members  race a...

This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support...

In a recent study, the non-profit Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. ranks 16th out of 16 nati...

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

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...

The Rand Health Insurance Experiment found that patients had little or no control over their hea...

Reining in health care costs has become a central policy challenge for government and a pressing ...

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

The guide is a resource for those interested or already engaged in quality improvement initiative...

This sponsored supplement explores the challenges of investing for lower-cost devices, services a...

This site, sponsored by the Office of Minority Health, offers the latest resources and tools to p...

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...

The report defines the meaning of value in health care, provides an overview of the current state...

An analysis of the current market

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

Why Is Focusing On Preventable Mortality Important?Hospital leaders work hard every day to provid...

 The purpose of this guide is to provide hospitals with a resource to help reduce inappropriate v...

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

The report provides: Background on health and wellness programs and how they are incentivized ...

This paper discusses how new technologies can be applied to improve the health of populations and...

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

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

This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...

A key ingredient for success under health care reform will be the ability to utilize health infor...

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

Due to the size and breadth of their organizations, multi-hospital health system leaders have a s...

The guide is designed to serve as a quick, simple resource by outlining four steps: Examine yo...

The content of this best-practices guide, and the process by which it was assembled, are emblemat...

The Problem St. Francis struggled getting non-emergent patients from the door to an ED bed in a ...

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

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

The Diversity & Inclusion Council was developed to create and sustain an organizational culture t...

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

The St. Francis Medical Center Kitty DeGree Breast Health Center employs a full-time breast healt...

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

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

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

Regional Health Improvement Collaborative provides a neutral, trusted mechanism through which all...

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...

This article discusses definitions of population health and how various models of can operational...

This article traces the historical progression of the population health approach as part of healt...

This article proposes a definition of population health and differentiates the concept from publi...