Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Geriatric Education Center  provides geriatric education ...

 Stanford Geriatric Education Center's geriatric training programs for health professionals are o...

L.A. Care Health Plans developed an innovative video designed to inform deaf and hard-of-hearing ...

Since 2011, a series of narrated video slideshow presentations has been under development at  Har...

The Cancer Legal Resource Center, joint program of the Disability Rights Legal Center and Loyola ...

Kaiser Permanente, as an integrated health care delivery system, has made significant progress to...

n 2008, Barnes-Jewish Hospital center for diversity and cultural competence developed an 18-hourc...

Project Perlas is a community-based participatory research project addressing disparities in mamm...

African American older adults are at greater risk of depression due to the higher incidence of ch...

Today health disparities remain a constant challenge for immigrants, refugees and displaced popul...

There is often a lack of coordination among the various health and social systems that provide in...

Neighborhood and environment are important determinants of health in addition to individual chara...

Approximately 24 million people--8.5 percent of the U.S. population--are defined as having Limite...

The need for cultural competence among physician providers is widely recognized by accrediting bo...

After identification of an opportunity to reduce CAUTIs, leadership headed an initiative to reduc...

The hospital joined the On the CUSP: Stop BSI  collaborative offered by IHA. The focus was on CLA...

In October 2010, Memorial Medical Center implemented an intervention “bundle” designed to reduce ...

The Red Box strategy was created to help reduce cost and health care worker time associated with ...

Harm/hospital-acquired condition reports were sent to each hospital. In reviewing both campuses, ...

To reduce the time to first dose of antibiotics to directly admitted pediatric oncology patients ...

After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...

The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...

Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...

The critical care unit identified VAP as an area for improvement, with three VAPs from May-July 2...

The PICC team was created in March 2010 after the facility had documented an increase in PICC-ass...

The medical center’s mission was to reduce the C. difficile rate from 26.7 cases per 10,000 patie...

In late January 2012, pharmacists began reviewing potential pneumonia patients using a screening ...

A team was created to ensure that all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, language, disabilit...

Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...

An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...

This webinar provided an understanding of how scientific operations management and IHO Variabilit...

The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...

The 2012 AHA Committee on Performance Improvement focused on advanced illness management. Well-de...

What is it? The RXAssistance Patient Assistance Program initiative began in 2005 as a collaborati...

St. John?s Institute for Cognitive Health and the University of Utah Center for Alzheimer?s Care,...

In 2007, Cheyenne Regional lent its name, planning/advocacy staff, and financial resources to par...

Southcentral FoundationAnchorage, AK150 beds A nonprofit health care organization owned by the A...

Griffin HospitalDerby, CT160 Beds Griffin Hospital is the flagship hospital for Planetree, Inc.,...

Saint Elizabeth’s Medical CenterWabasha, MN25 Beds Saint Elizabeth’s Medical Center, part of Min...

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH577 Beds Cincinnati Children’s Hospit...

Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...

Informed Medical Decisions FoundationBoston, MAThe Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, founded...

Emory HealthcareAtlanta, GA Emory Healthcare, a large academic teaching system, deployed a patie...

Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders were at a higher risk of po...

This second report in this series expands and explains all three strategies and focuses on patien...

This articles argues that now is the time to integrate public health and primary care in a way th...

A central goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to significantly reduce the n...

Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

Patient-reported experiences of care are an important focus in health disparities research. This ...

The Affordable Care Act and state Medicaid reform efforts present opportunities to reengineer hea...