Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The work of a Washington D.C. collaborative of hospitals and FQHCs is benefiting the entire commu...

Community health initiatives that start with small successes can lead to bigger changes. St. Cath...

Homelessness is a hidden but real issue in Chittenden County, VT. University of Vermont Medical C...

This HPOE guide, developed by Kaufman Hall, provides key considerations in partnering for populat...

As nonprofit hospitals in the U.S. complete a community health needs assessments (CHNA) process, ...

Across the United States, nonprofit hospitals are conducting community health needs assessments, ...

The premise of this project was that failure to maintain a patient's respect and dignity represen...

Approximately two years ago frontline staff presented a proposal to remove bed and chair alarms f...

In 2012, a physician-led Pioneer accountable care organization recognized an opportunity to bette...

The health system's vision in 2014 was "to transform the delivery and financing of health care to...

The ICMP Program is a Care Manager collaborative created to ensure the transition of patient care...

North Shore Medical Center aims to provide the perfect patient experience based on evidence-based...

The skilled nursing facility three-day waiver program is an exciting opportunity at Partners Heal...

The Perioperative Medicine Model of Care is a three-pronged approach to the postoperative care of...

Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...

Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that diagnostic care for patients who were referred within the...

New England Quality Care Alliance, a physician network, implemented a medication prior authorizat...

Boston Children’s Hospital and its associated pediatric primary care physicians organization coll...

Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...

Newton-Wellesley Hospital reviewed rates of third and fourth degree obstetrical trauma (Patient S...

The integrated specialty pharmacy program at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., i...

In early 2010, Emerson Hospital board members, medical staff and executive leaders convened to ad...

The project's goal was to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in trached and ...

Hallmark Health System, Inc., is participating in the Community-based Care Transitions Program (C...

With the national focus on decreasing hospital-acquired infections, Massachusetts General Hospita...

At Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, the pediatric intensive care unit has been implem...

Dedicated to eliminating catheter-associated urinary tract infections, North Shore Medical Center...

This health care system's unique post-acute care (PAC) continuum of Inpatient Rehabilitation Faci...

The largest drivers of disease in populations are unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, unhealthy...

In 2008, the two hospital systems partnered with the city of Whittier, the YMCA of Greater Whitti...

Lake Placid and Tupper Lake, nursing homes that are part of Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, N.Y....

Working with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this infographic summarizes the findings of a re...

The Road to Better Health Spartanburg has proven that working collectively and in partnership wit...

Montefiore Medical Center's School Health Program is the largest and most comprehensive school-ba...

Healthy Communities of Clinton County Coalition Two teams of community members--a coalition of h...

Cheyenne Regional Medical CenterCheyenne, WY222 Beds The Problem Cheyenne Regional Medical Cente...

Chambers County was designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration as one of the ...

Davis Health System is a health care network that includes 90-bed Davis Memorial Hospital, 12-bed...

ProMedica’s (NW Ohio and SE Michigan) mission is to improve the health and well-being of the peop...

To help those with reading and language challenges, UVA Health System staff developed a curriculu...

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

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

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

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

In 2009, North Central Bronx Hospital analyzed data from its diabetes registry to identify opport...

This article describes the development of the regional health collaborative, a population-based h...

In the Pink is a program of Saint Michael's Medical Center and the program provides outreach, edu...