Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

Here’s an excellent opportunity for health care executives to study and discuss pressing health c...

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

A health care collaboration in rural Missouri is expanding patient access to primary and behavior...

This health system's employee influenza vaccination policy compliance rate was less than 70 perce...

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

The new HPOE  guide “Triple Aim Strategies to Improve Behavioral Health Care” describes strategie...

For the past 30 years, the Healthcare for the Homeless Program has addressed the health needs of ...

A collaborative network of hospitals and community organizations is improving behavioral health c...

Cultural competency is critical to reducing health care disparities and improving access to high-...

This HPOE webinar highlights innovations for eliminating health care disparities and will feature...

Diversity is becoming a key word in health care. Hospitals and health care systems are focusing o...

Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. Victims are subjected to force, fraud or coercion ...

This toolkit is a user-friendly “how-to” guide to help accelerate the elimination of health care ...

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

Population health is receiving increased attention for its role in improving health care, specifi...

Moving from a volume-based payment model to a value-based payment model requires a new set of man...

Redefine. Partner. Integrate. Experiment. Specialize. Many hospitals and care systems are embarki...

If you build a community of care, people will come. It happened when Middlesex Hospital, in Middl...

After a decade of war and an unprecedented number of combat deployments, our service members, vet...

This guide includes two sections that address collection and use of patient race, ethnicity and l...

Cultural competency in health care describes the ability of systems to provide care to patients w...

This webinar examined best practices and lessons from the field on health care transformation ini...

"Metrics for the Second Curve of Health Care" expands on four strategies originally identified in...

The AHA's Committee on Research developed the report, "Engaging Health Care Users: A Framework fo...

The AHA’s framework for health reform, Health for Life, embraces the need to engage patients and ...

From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and fa...

This report identifies steps that policy, public health and community stakeholders can take to pr...

The conclusion of H&HN's yearlong series on hospital, community and national efforts to identify ...

The Affordable Care Act and state Medicaid reform efforts present opportunities to reengineer hea...

At the 2012 American Public Health Association annual meeting, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation spo...

Annual analysis of the health care of a record number of Americans by the National Committee for ...

America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, say...

PLF hosted a session on achieving team-based health care delivery. David Nash, MD, founding dean ...

This commentary was written by  Daren R. Anderson, MD, vice president and chief quality officer, ...

Achieving health care equity and eliminating health care disparities are a top goal of hospitals ...

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

Adventist HealthCareRockville, Maryland1,045 Beds The Problem Adventist HealthCare created the C...

Ten existential questions will make the difference between limping into the future and soaring to...

In the United States, there has been a growing health care divide between vulnerable populations ...

In this article, the author argues that health equity is best achieved by securing access to high...

This article proposes an examination of health disparities through the lens of public health to p...

The latest Alliance issue brief reports on how collaboratives are working at the local level to i...

A key ingredient for success under health care reform will be the ability to utilize health infor...

The guide is designed to serve as a quick, simple resource by outlining four steps: Examine yo...