Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

April is National Minority Health Month. Launched in April 2001 by the National Minority Health F...

According to Leapfrog survey results, the hospital’s rate of elective deliveries prior to 39 week...

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

The goal was to eliminate all variances in the clinical process measures to ensure that patients ...

According to Leapfrog survey results, the hospital’s rate of elective deliveries prior to 39 week...

Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...

Preoperative/procedure testing for surgical, cardiac catheterization and scheduled C-section pati...

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

The AHA's Committee on Research developed the report, "Engaging Health Care Users: A Framework fo...

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

In 2009, the leadership team of this hospital empowered its multidisciplinary critical care commi...

The hospital developed a comprehensive, multidisciplinary stroke program to provide patients with...

Early and safe mobility of critically ill patients in a cardiovascular surgical intensive care un...

Disparities in care were noted for diabetes, cardio vascular disease and cancer screeening for Hm...

The University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health and its Center for Health Litera...

The University of Michigan Health System used lean management and the plan-do-check-act cycle to ...

The YWCA of Greater Milwaukee created a diversity training program focused on race and racism, in...

The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Texas Health Institute developed a fr...

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...

This study of Spanish-speaking rural Latinos with diabetes finds that Spanish fluency is independ...

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

In a society as culturally diverse as the United States, especially in New York City,  members of...

Good patient/provider communication correlates with greater patient satisfaction, increased patie...

Although, increasing diversity in the health care workforce and training health care providers to...

The use of cross-cultural diversity forum isexamined. The forums use technology and tools to brin...

According to the Pew research center,  74 percent of all adults in the United States use the Inte...

The Tool for Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments program seeks to enable raising com...

Clinicians and health care providers incorporate evidence-based clinical interventions to improve...

The ADA committee at the Kaiser Woodland Hills facility was started in 2010 in an effort to compl...

Little is known about the unique health needs and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans...

Beginning in August 2007, the Arizona Department of Health Services' Health Disparities Center or...

The University of Connecticut's community-based education program collaborated with community par...

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...

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...

This case study explores the process of accessing health care from the perspective of the immigra...

Many immigrant parents rely on their children to help them communicate as ad hoc interpreters in ...

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...

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

As the United States becomes increasingly diverse and as individuals choose to be more acculturat...

After several monthly reviews of reported adverse drug events, hypoglycemia ranked highest for th...

The driving principle behind the outpatient service excellence journey is excellent customer serv...

A nurse-driven protocol was implemented to increase the staff’s awareness on the appropriate indi...

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

Central line-associated bloodstream infections continued to occur in the adult ICU despite the im...

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