Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

The St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center created a Hypoglycemic Task Force to recognize and decrea...

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

Today, about one out of three children and adolescents ages 2-19 in the United States is overweig...

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

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...

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

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

The collaborative was launched by Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care in 2012 to trans...

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...

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...

Under the leadership of the Process Improvement (PI) Department, the organization has been drivin...

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...

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

The School Based Care Coordination Program supports at-risk youth and families in two school dist...

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

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...

T4P/BREATHE is an inter-professional project created in response to improving patient outcomes an...

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

This case study presents the story of CareSouth Carolina and the Northeastern Rural Health Networ...

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

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

Hypertension—the silent killer—impacts more than one in three Americans and is a leading cause of...

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

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...

July 2009-October 2011 baseline data for the blood culture contamination rate in the ED showed it...

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

As part of Blueprint for Health (a statewide, public-private initiative authorized by the Vermont...

The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...

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

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

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 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 ...

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...

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...

Using a Community Needs Assessment, Morris Hospital, which serves 18 rural communities, identifie...

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

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

Fletcher Allen Health Care's  Community Benefit CommitteeBurlington, VT About the Initiative:In ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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...

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,...

Methodist Le Bonheur HealthcareMemphis, TN1,321 Beds The Congregational Health Network is a part...

Georgia Health Sciences Health Augusta, GA632 Beds Georgia Health Sciences Health System consist...

Saint Elizabeth’s Medical CenterWabasha, MN25 Beds Saint Elizabeth’s Medical Center, part of Min...

Informed Medical Decisions FoundationBoston, MAThe Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, founded...

Emory HealthcareAtlanta, GA Emory Healthcare, a large academic teaching system, deployed a patie...

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

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 ...