Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Many Medicare patients with life-limiting illnesses had no documented advanced directive while in...

It is estimated that 25 percent of falls by hospital patients are preventable. Saint Alphonsus Re...

A national leader in health care equity, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has developed s...

Some patients have difficulty effectively managing their medications because they don't fully und...

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

The May 2014 edition of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved highlights lingui...

A gap analysis was conducted. Key themes emerged in this analysis such as inadequate preparation ...

Crossroad Health Center is a federally qualified health center and level 3 patient-centered medic...

All practices participating in Better Health Greater Cleveland collect and submit data on patient...

The Greater Detroit Area Health Council is taking an innovative approach to reducing disparities ...

There is a need for greater understanding of the factors that lead to improved process quality an...

Rooftop gardens are flourishing atop more and more hospitals. On unused roof space at Castle Medi...

This case study describes a pilot program to find out the effect that integrative behavioral heal...

Providing world-class quality health care may seem an audacious goal for a small or rural hospita...

This viewpoint article examines the barriers to improving health outcomes, eliminating disparitie...

Four generations are working side by side in hospitals and care systems today. Atlantic Health Sy...

The Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) Guides are a suite of tools that include ...

The 2014 AHA Chair-elect Jonathan  Perlin, MD, co-authored this paper and companion financial mod...

Founded in 1989, the Metro Community Provider Network is a nonprofit organization in the Denver M...

Established in 2007, Colorado Total Smiles is a nonprofit located in the Denver Metro area that p...

Generational differences—one factor of diversity—are changing workforce dynamics. Traditionalists...

Never underestimate the power of data. Hannibal (Mo.) Regional Hospital focused on collecting and...

Pinnacle Health System Harrisburg, PA599 Beds The Problem Health systems are no longer simply as...

Womansplace Crisis Center is committed to working toward the elimination of violence against wome...

After more than a decade of war, many U.S. military service members have experienced an unprecede...

Reducing health care disparities is a growing national priority and state hospital associations a...

Focusing on strategies to improve quality, address disparities and achieve equity will be essenti...

This report discusses the importance of health in all policies, an approach to improving health b...

At North Shore-LIJ Health System, teamwork is everywhere. This New York health system uses TeamST...

Zero is an important number at Broward Health North. The 409-bed community hospital in Deerfield ...

Research shows that when patients are engaged in their health care, it can lead to measurable imp...

A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...

This guide describes a three-step action plan from the On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI project that helps...

This resource gives hospital and health system leaders concrete, practical steps grounded on evid...

The Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Networks are designed to improve patient care ac...

Providing quality care for patients with limited English proficiency can be challenging, even for...

This report from the Department of Health and Human Services describes a plan to bolster implemen...

Here's a disheartening statistic from the National Cancer Institute: in the United States, white ...

Children diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities and behavior disorders need q...

Providing the very best care—the goal of all hospitals and care givers—must include an understand...

Patients may be Christian, Jew, Muslim or of any other religious expression—at Lutheran Medical C...

Think of all the instruments, equipment and furniture in a hospital operating room. Any of these ...

Providing culturally competent care to patients requires a focus on more than just race, ethnicit...

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

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

Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...

The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...

The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...

In December 2009, the medical center embarked on a little known and practiced procedure in the Un...

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