Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Pinnacle Health System Harrisburg, PA599 Beds The Problem Health systems are no longer simply as...

After more than a decade of war, many U.S. military service members have experienced an unprecede...

Reducing health care disparities is a growing national priority and state hospital associations a...

Focusing on strategies to improve quality, address disparities and achieve equity will be essenti...

At North Shore-LIJ Health System, teamwork is everywhere. This New York health system uses TeamST...

Research shows that when patients are engaged in their health care, it can lead to measurable imp...

A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...

Here's a disheartening statistic from the National Cancer Institute: in the United States, white ...

Providing the very best care—the goal of all hospitals and care givers—must include an understand...

Patients may be Christian, Jew, Muslim or of any other religious expression—at Lutheran Medical C...

More than 64 million surgeries are performed annually in the United States. Preventing surgical s...

The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quali...

The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...

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

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 ...

This case study explains Barnes-Jewish Hospital's approach to training it  4,100 team members thr...

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

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

In 2005, the University of Washington School of Medicine was awarded a grant from the National In...

This case study describes an evidence-based residency program that applies to an international au...

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...

Since 2011, a series of narrated video slideshow presentations has been under development at  Har...

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

This case study looks at he Joint Commission's recommendation related to culturally and linguisti...

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

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

Kaiser Permanente, as an integrated health care delivery system, has made significant progress to...

n 2008, Barnes-Jewish Hospital center for diversity and cultural competence developed an 18-hourc...

Today health disparities remain a constant challenge for immigrants, refugees and displaced popul...

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...

Approximately 24 million people--8.5 percent of the U.S. population--are defined as having Limite...

Transforming organizations, such as academic health centers or teaching hospitals, toward creatin...

Examples of and the rationale for strategies used to foster critical consciousness in the work of...

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

A team was created to ensure that all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, language, disabilit...

A commitment to diversity came first. That was followed by specific action projects to increase d...

This primer discusses community benefit laws across the United States, noting differences in fede...

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...

Ryhov HospitalJönköping, Sweden Ryhov Hospital is a county hospital in Jönköping, Sweden, with a...

In 2012 the AHA Committee on Research focused on actively engaging health care users to improve o...