Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Preventing hospital-acquired infections, reducing surgical complications and reducing readmission...

Results from an Association for Community Health Improvement and American Hospital Association Su...

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

The community guide is a resource to help hospitals and community organizations choose programs t...

This HPOE presentation highlights the business imperative for equity of care.  As the health care...

This article discusses opportunities for health care providers to leverage Affordable Care Act re...

Every October pink appears on everything from ribbons to football helmets and even illuminates th...

As health care leaders implement diverse improvement projects, from reducing hospital-acquired in...

This toolkit helps community groups assess and develop action plans to create sustainable, commun...

This article discusses how using health adjusted life expectacy could bridge the gap between clin...

This article discusses the importance of a holistic approach to community development in order to...

Focusing on strategies to improve quality and achieve health care equity is a growing national pr...

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 ...

October 6 – 12 is Mental Health Awareness Week. According to estimates, in the United States each...

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

This brief focuses on updating significant points concerning community health needs assessment an...

Patients are becoming empowered. As health care consumers, they are reviewing publicly available ...

Learn from the best of the best. The 2013 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize® recipients will s...

This toolkit helps track community partnerships, assess opportunities for increased engagement an...

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

This article explores how geographic health information systems can be used to improve the health...

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

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

Million Hearts is a national initiative to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2017. I...

This articles explores how HealthPartners decided to target nonclinical determinants of populatio...

The report describes the journeys of four care systems as they are transforming into accountable ...

This toolkit provides a framework for creating interventions that promote the Healthy People 2020...

AHA NOVA Awards honor effective, collaborative programs focused on improving community health sta...

This article aims to define the term "healthy communities" based on existing literature on the to...

Only a small percentage of patients develop a health care-associated infection after surgery, and...

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

In California, about 16 percent of the adult population, more than 4 million people, have mental ...

The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...

This article discusses how six organizations in Oakland, Calif., used a health impact assessment ...

There is a growing need to improve health care, especially at the interface between general medic...

Everyone is talking “population health management,” and many health care organizations are succes...

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

Being accessible only by airplane or boat adds to the scenic character of Wrangell, Alaska (popul...

No single organization can effectively address complex community health issues such as access to ...

To become an effective population health manager, a hospital must create effective partnerships. ...

June 2–8 is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health Improvement s...

New Ulm Medical CenterNew Ulm, MN45 Beds The Problem New Ulm Medical Center, a critical access h...

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...

Cheyenne Regional Medical CenterCheyenne, WY222 Beds The Problem Cheyenne Regional Medical Cente...

This report indentifies and explains guiding principles to inform the implementation ofCommunity ...

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...

Young children who missed more than half of recommended well-child visits had up to twice the ris...

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

Davis Health System is a health care network that includes 90-bed Davis Memorial Hospital, 12-bed...

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

Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, Jackson, Miss.– 633 beds– 3,000-plus employees In 1997, Miss...

ProMedica’s (NW Ohio and SE Michigan) mission is to improve the health and well-being of the peop...

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

The chair files highlight stories of hospitals and health systems that are implementing innovativ...

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

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

This webinar from Health Resources in Action discusses the benefits of hospital-community collabo...

Collective Impact is the commitment of a group of actors from different sectors to a common agend...

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 ...

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...

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

Effective care transitions programs can do more than improve patient care: patients learn to mana...

The goal was to improve turnaround times of troponin and EKGs within the cardiac patient populati...

Development of a Norwood Clinic allowed the quality improvement team to create goals to decrease ...

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...

Webinars and presentations from the New England Health Impact Assessment Training Series in 2012.

Year after year, America’s hospitals respond to meet pressing community health care needs. In 200...

What is it? The RXAssistance Patient Assistance Program initiative began in 2005 as a collaborati...

The program director created the Individuals Combining Activity and Nutrition (ICAN) pilot progra...

Platte County holds free birthing classes for expectant parents three times per year in January, ...

Healthy Woman is a community that empowers women with the confidence to make informed health care...

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,...

In 2007, Cheyenne Regional lent its name, planning/advocacy staff, and financial resources to par...

he camp, a collaboration with Area Health Education Center (AHEC) and the University of Wyoming C...

Cambridge Health AllianceCambridge, MA229 Beds Cambridge Health Alliance is an integrated health...

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

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

Bellin Health SystemGreen Bay, WI Bellin Health System is a nonprofit integrated health care del...

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

Geisinger Health SystemDanville, PA545 Beds Geisinger Health System is an integrated health serv...

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

This book provides practical skills for building communities. Chapters three, four and five addre...

This website provides a wealth of resources on CommunityHealth Needs Assessment and the related I...

This report details the Institute of Medicine's roundtable on population health improvement and d...

This report discusses strategies to help health care leaders prioritize three foundational elemen...

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

Use this tool to assess whether your health-related organization or system, or coalition of organ...