Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

“Transportation and the Role of Hospitals” is part of a series of guides and resources released b...

HRET and Million Hearts® hosted a webinar on cardiac rehabilitation (CR), a comprehensive seconda...

Schuyler Hospital’s Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Schuyler initiative offers various opport...

This compendium features detailed descriptions of hospital-community partnerships from across the...

It has become widely known that effective hospital-community partnerships are necessary in buildi...

“Housing and the Role of Hospitals” is the second guide released by the AHA, HRET and ACHI as par...

Advancing population health involves fostering effective and sustainable hospital-community partn...

As part of our work to Advance Health in America, the AHA, HRET and ACHI are launching a series o...

Though health care professionals at hospitals work tirelessly to help patients get and stay healt...

The American Hospital Association and the Health Research & Educational Trust are working to supp...

On May 7, 2017, I swore an oath to become the 118th chairman of the American Hospital Association...

This HPOE and American Hospital Association Section for Maternal and Child Health webinar is abou...

Serious dental problems can affect the overall well-being of an individual. Therefore, Mount St. ...

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

The next generation of community health will serve as the foundation for total population health....

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

The 2017 chair files will begin highlighting efforts that are improving community health beyond t...

The Association for Healthcare Volunteer Resource Professionals created a guide to help hospitals...

Increasingly, hospitals and health systems are forming partnerships to attain the new and demandi...

Focusing on community needs using a data-driven approach and local resources has improved care fo...

Hospitals can create a culture of health in their own organization and in the community by develo...

  The patient experience is more important today than ever before, with payments tied to patie...

As consumers increasingly rely on information and reviews from a variety of sources to access all...

This project explains how a multisite, outpatient breast cancer and lymphedema rehabilitation pro...

Advance care planning is a critical element of wellness for all adult patients, regardless of dia...

The Community Health Network (CHN) targets the socioeconomic determinants of health that are not ...

Effective and sustainable hospital-community partnerships are critical to building a Culture of H...

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

Community health needs assessments—CHNAs—are becoming a driver of community collaborations and a ...

This guide features case studies of the 2015 Foster G. McGaw Prize winner and finalists. These ex...

Hospitals and communities are increasingly recognizing the importance of effective partnerships w...

Hospitals and health systems continually push to improve the health of their communities. Massach...

Demand for Brockton Neighborhood Health Center (BNHC) accelerated after it started in 1994 as a m...

Codman Square Health Center in downtown Dorchester, MA exemplifies how a health center can build ...

North Country HealthCare is a federally qualified health center serving fourteen communities in n...

Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) have the potential to be powerful drivers to enhance t...

In January 2015, Southern Illinois Healthcare, based in Carbondale, was awarded an 18-month USDA ...

Funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Serv...

The link between hunger, food insecurity and poor health has been clearly acknowledged as a serio...

Hospitals and faith organizations are collaborating to improve health care outcomes and organize ...

This HPOE guide, a collaboration with the American Society for Healthcare Engineering, explores w...

St. Joseph Health, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a 208-bed hospital in Napa, California, is...

Recognizing the need to build a just culture, the leadership team at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hos...

The Baystate Health Breast and Wellness Center, created in 2013, is a combination of two premier ...

Four years ago this hospital had no clinical leadership development program. Physician leaders wi...

Patient and system tracers have been conducted at this institution since 2008. Prior to this proj...

As the conventional analogy notes, change occurs when an organization finds itself atop a burning...

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...

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

At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a small group of challenging patients account for a disproportio...

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

North Shore Medical Center is dedicated to safely transitioning all emergency department patients...

TEMPO: Together Everyone Improves Patient Outcomes, an initiative undertaken at Saint Vincent Hos...

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

As the complexity and cost of cancer care increases, there is an urgent need to support and track...

The Care Tracker program at Signature Healthcare collates data from multiple sources, including b...

Diagnostic care for patients referred within the institution for suspicious lung lesions was vari...

Injectable extended-release formulation of naltrexone marketed as Vivitrol is a recent significan...

To meet a high demand for Chinese interpreters, the Tufts Medical Center Interpreter Services wor...

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

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

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...

Sanpete Valley Hospital, a critical access hospital in Mount Pleasant, Utah, is leading behaviora...

The Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina is an unprecedented volunteer collaboration of more t...

CDMHC’s innovative programs divert hundreds of patients from the hospitals and emergency departme...

Erie County Medical Center's "boots on the floor" initiative began by hiring five full-time patie...

Read about how patient and family engagement practices are related to patient experiences. This s...

A population health initiative in Rochester, New York, is bringing together two health care syste...

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

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...

After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...

National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

When River Hospital, Alexandria Bay, N.Y., identified an unmet mental health need for active duty...

Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...

Patient engagement is paramount to reducing readmissions and improving quality of life. That’s wh...

In January 2011, utilizing the hospital’s system-wide electronic medical records, a family medici...

United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia, N.Y., focused on patients with congestive heart failure,...

Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...

The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...

Building successful partnerships with patients and families may be a key strategy in a hospital’s...

The hospital recognized an urgent need to improve the current rate of colorectal cancer screening...

Ascension Health created a business unit called Transformational Development. It is charged with ...

 Hospital leaders struggle to provide effective care coordination to vulnerable populations. In 2...

To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...

Hospitals and care systems are uniquely positioned to play an integral role preventing violence i...

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

In August 2014, Campbell County Health became the first health care facility in Wyoming to be app...

Excellent patient-centered care is the goal of a program implemented by the team at McDonough Dis...

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

With the rise in higher-deductible health plans and coinsurance, Americans are paying an increasi...

Managing population health, financial planning for value-based care and payment, and leading impr...

Together with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, HRET shared the results of a survey that stu...

This article highlights the success of a pilot project between Park Nicollet hospital, St. Louis ...

Care for people with multiple chronic health conditions is often fragmented, resulting in increas...

To address the widespread lack of access to basic health care, community health centers serve mor...

This issue brief continues the program’s examination of state-level community benefit oversight b...

As our nation's population becomes more diverse, health care organizations are continuously prese...