Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...

The AHA is dedicated to highlighting the good work that America's hospitals are doing to care and...

A recent article from the Los Angeles Times looks at how the traditional doctor-patient relations...

Compassionate and cost effective is how Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Fla., des...

Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...

The Health Disparities Cancer Collaborative implemented six components of the chronic care model ...

This commentary was written by  Daren R. Anderson, MD, vice president and chief quality officer, ...

This article discusses how clinically at-risk and socially disadvantaged populations may not be f...

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...

Health care professionals at Henry Ford Health System know how to connect with teenagers. About 1...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...

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...

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in American men, after skin cancer. According to...

Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Re...

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

It?s estimated that patients remember and understand about half of the information they receive f...

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...

Using Plan-Do-Study-Act, this initiative prioritized utilization of spirometry as the standard di...

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...

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...