Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This web seminar highlighted improvements in staff training and building the culturally competent...

As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

To meet patient needs in the current market, hospitals have traditionally focused their efforts o...

This statistic may surprise you: Mental health conditions and mood disorders including depression...

This paper examines successful approaches to delivering mental health treatment in primary care a...

In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

This guide describes how HCAHPS data should be used in context with other information about organ...

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

My goal in this article is to use the laws of physics to help readers think in new ways about sha...

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

Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...

Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...

In 2005, North Shore University Hospital's president and chief executive officer made a commitmen...

The Brooklyn Hospital Center Family Medicine Department made a commitment to improve the quality ...

Adventist HealthCareRockville, Maryland1,045 Beds The Problem Adventist HealthCare created the C...

This commentary presents a model developed to explore how health information technology affects c...

New York-Presbyterian HospitalNew York, NY2,264 Beds The Problem New York-Presbyterian Hospital’...

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...