Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Nurses have always been on the front lines at hospitals providing quality, compassionate care for...

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

This joint HPOE and Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital webinar discus...

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...

At hospitals and health care systems across the country, executives, clinicians and staff are lea...

  The patient experience is more important today than ever before, with payments tied to patie...

Using the Triple Aim framework, hospitals and health systems can effectively address behavioral h...

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

Inappropriate stress ulcer prophylaxis is a serious problem across the health care continuum. Lit...

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

April is National Minority Health Month. Led by the HHS Office of Minority Health, the 2016 event...

This HPOE guide, a collaboration with the American Society for Healthcare Engineering, explores w...

State and regional hospital associations across the United States are recognizing hospitals and h...

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...

The Chairman’s File columns provide just a glimpse of the excellent work that our nation’s hospit...

Leadership, innovation and commitment to quality and safety—all are needed to deliver exceptional...

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

Hospitals and health systems are focusing on cultural competence to create an environment and wor...

In accord with their commitment to equity of care and leadership diversity, hospitals and health ...

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

A new HPOE Guide “Increasing Supplier Diversity in Health Care” provides action steps and case st...

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

Each year, the Illinois Hospital Association recognizes and celebrates the achievements of Illino...

During the 2013-14 influenza season, an emergency preparedness mass influenza vaccination drill w...

This article highlights what hospitals are doing to improve access to behavioral health services....

The transformation of health care is occurring at a rapid pace causing an increase in the need to...

With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, decisions made at the state level pla...

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 ...

The Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development recently released the report Bridging ...

This HPOE webinar, held in conjunction with the Institute for Diversity in Health Management, fea...

For nearly 20 years, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Jersey has partnered with the...

The Minority Faculty Development Awards program at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cl...

This HPOE webinar, held with the Institute for Diversity, highlights Henry Ford Health System, wh...

Hospitals and health systems recognized for excellence in health care equity are sharing their wo...

In conjunction with Health Services Research, this webinar showcases health IT developments in th...

Whether cheering for soccer, tennis, baseball, softball or another sport, fans no doubt have witn...

Whether cheering for soccer, tennis, baseball, softball or another sport, fans no doubt have witn...

The May 2014 edition of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved highlights lingui...

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...

Hospitals and health care systems are faced with unprecedented challenges and opportunities as th...

Rooftop gardens are flourishing atop more and more hospitals. On unused roof space at Castle Medi...

This viewpoint article examines the barriers to improving health outcomes, eliminating disparitie...

Each year, the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement takes an in-depth look at a single topic ...

A new member of the health care team is helping to improve clinical outcomes and patient experien...

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

Four generations are working side by side in hospitals and care systems today. Atlantic Health Sy...

Generational differences—one factor of diversity—are changing workforce dynamics. Traditionalists...

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

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

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

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...

How do you successfully integrate behavioral health and primary care? A recent HPOE webinar highl...

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

Children diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities and behavior disorders need q...

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

Telepsychiatry is playing a pivotal role in providing timely care to hospitalized mental health p...

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 YWCA of Greater Milwaukee created a diversity training program focused on race and racism, in...

According to the Pew research center,  74 percent of all adults in the United States use the Inte...

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

This case study explores the process of accessing health care from the perspective of the immigra...

The medical center’s mission was to reduce the C. difficile rate from 26.7 cases per 10,000 patie...

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...

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...

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

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

Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...

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

Palliative care specializes in taking care of patients with serious illness and focuses on provid...

This report is part of a new effort to provide medical students with information about the patter...

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 ...

Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...

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

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

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, ...

This discussion paper analyzes factors that attribute to  better outcomes at lower costs. The aut...

After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

Roseland Community Hospital joined the Illinois Foundation for Quality Healthcare, the quality im...

Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

During this webinar, hear how AnMed Health is applying the principles of REaL (race, ethnicity an...

This web seminar highlighted improvements in staff training and building the culturally competent...

In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

This guide describes how HCAHPS data should be used in context with other information about organ...

My goal in this article is to use the laws of physics to help readers think in new ways about sha...

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

Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...