Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

Montefiore Medical Center’s goal was to increase access and supply of healthy food and beverage o...

Adirondack Health is working with multiple sectors of the community, such as the Franklin County ...

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

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

Concussions are a growing problem for young athletes. The hospital’s overall goal is to educate a...

As a health organization that serves communities disproportionately affected by asthma, Sinai Hea...

Carthage Area Hospital is improving patient and employee experiences by providing them with fresh...

Claremont Village is a New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) public housing development in the ...

As one of only two hospitals in Yuma County, Yuma District Hospital and Clinic (YDHC) can ascerta...

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

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...

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

Tufts Medical Center made a decision to create its own quality improvement training for its workf...

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

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...

Nighttime or off-shift intubations are a low-frequency, high-risk procedure in a community hospit...

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

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

Through this initiative, Highland Healthcare Associates IPA seeks to improve the physician's expe...

Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Physician’s Organization implem...

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

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

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

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

The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...

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

Palmetto Health has pursued multiple initiatives and strategies to promote a healthy community an...

The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

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 ...

To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...

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

Based on the consultant’s recommendations, Lee Memorial’s (Fort Myers, Fla.) senior management de...

The Muskegon Community Health Project, in partnership with Mercy Health Partners, is an inclusive...

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

Children with cystic fibrosis have better lung function and survival rates if their body mass ind...

The Human Services Alliance of Beaufort County is one of the oldest coalitions for health improve...

What is it? Now in its third year, Camp Med is a three-day, hands-on experience at the hospital t...

Albany Medical Center developed the Child Advocacy Resident Education program that aims to improv...

After identifying inequities with affordable access to primary care services and an uncoordinated...

St. Joseph Regional Health Center went on a Lean journey to not only save money, but improve the ...

This report highlights nearly 80 evidence-based disease and injury prevention programs. These pro...

Newark Department of Child and Family Well-BeingNewark NJ The Problem In 2003, The Newark (N.J.)...

The case study addresses a hospital-based tobacco cessation initiative that serves patients regar...

Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health CenterWindsor, VT60 Beds The Problem Mt. Ascutney Hospital and ...

Yuma District HospitalYuma, CO12 Beds The Problem Yuma District Hospital, located in Yuma, Color...

In 2008, Ellis Hospital launched a medical home at its Ellis Health Center campus. This initiativ...

Cheyenne Regional Medical Center and Cheyenne Health and Wellness Center partner on several initi...

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

Concord (N.H.) Hospital • 230-bed regional medical center • 17,194 admissions • 295 medical staff...

 HPOE is pleased to highlight case studies from the Illinois Hospital Association’s Institute f...

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

The Illinois Department of Public Health, Center for Minority Services is using mobile messaging ...

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

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...

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

The Sharps Disposal Program offers a safe way for diabetics or anyone using medical sharps to dis...

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

Kaiser PermanenteOakland, CAKaiser Permanente is a health care provider and nonprofit health plan...

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...

Atlantic Health SystemNew Jersey1,308 Beds Atlantic Health System owns and operates Morristown M...

Howard University HospitalWashington, DC266 Beds Howard University Hospital is a private, nonpro...

Among California's African American, Native American, Latino and Hmong populations, a diagnosis o...

The Florida Hospital Association is proud to recognize the 2012 Celebration of Achievement in Qua...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...

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

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

Evidence-based practice is an essential requirement of professional health care providers. Rural ...

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

Baylor Health Care SystemDallas, TX3,653 Beds The Problem The Baylor Health Care System Office o...

Barnes-Jewish HospitalSt. Louis, MO1,305 Beds The Problem Barnes-Jewish Hospital created the Cen...

SSM Saint Mary’s Medical CenterSaint Louis, MO 374 Beds The Problem Better Outcomes for Older Ad...

This article presents four case studies of effective community and academic partnership that impr...

The Problem Progress West didn't so much have a problem but an opportunity. By opening a new hos...

The Problem According to the American Heart Association, heart failure affects about 5.7 million...

These programs take health education, information and related services directly to community memb...