Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The disease management process at Bassett Medical Center was positively impacted after the hospit...

This HPOE and the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) webinar focuses on how two hea...

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

Stony Brook University Hospital coordinated efforts with its emergency department and ambulatory ...

The work of a Washington D.C. collaborative of hospitals and FQHCs is benefiting the entire commu...

BackgroundIllinois Valley Community Hospital is a 49-bed, not-for-profit hospital located in Peru...

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

The problem faced by the health system was the lack of a coordinated approach for the review and ...

Advance care planning is a critical element of wellness for all adult patients, regardless of dia...

The CK-MB Test is a traditional blood test of a cardiac marker used to assist in the diagnosis of...

Studies show lipase to be as sensitive as and more specific than amylase in diagnosing pancreatit...

Concussions are a growing problem for young athletes. The hospital’s overall goal is to educate a...

The organization used Lean Six Sigma process techniques to identify and support improved efficien...

Reducing inpatient length of stay has a strong impact on value and organizational performance, an...

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

The Coachella Valley is a region in Southern California with an incredibly high rate of HIV. Base...

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

Citrus Valley Health Partners (CVHP) is a nonprofit comprehensive health care system based in Los...

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

Approximately two years ago frontline staff presented a proposal to remove bed and chair alarms f...

The health system's vision in 2014 was "to transform the delivery and financing of health care to...

As the complexity and cost of cancer care increases, there is an urgent need to support and track...

Diagnostic care for patients referred within the institution for suspicious lung lesions was vari...

MOU—Mobile Observation Unit—provides home-based urgent care for patients experiencing at-risk med...

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

The goal of this project was to decrease the utilization rates of indwelling urinary catheters an...

In early 2011, AHA members, committees, regional policy boards and staff discussed and crafted a ...

Addressing the complex needs of older patients and their caregivers is the focus of the Bridge Mo...

In 2008, the two hospital systems partnered with the city of Whittier, the YMCA of Greater Whitti...

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

Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs direct judicious antimicrobial use to optimize patient outcome...

Presence St. Joseph's Medical Center's project implemented interventions to maintain patient func...

This blog post is from H&HN, the journal of the American Hospital Association and was written by ...

In addition to identifying priority health needs and aligning partners and resources to address c...

Sylvia Getman, president and CEO of the Aroostook Medical Center and senior vice president of Eas...

Learning, sharing resources and discussing projects on cutting-edge topics in health care transfo...

The Department of Veterans Affairs home-based primary care  began in 1972.  Home-based primary ca...

University Hospitals, Cleveland, is advancing multiple care equity initiatives. The over 2,000-be...

Excellent patient-centered care is the goal of a program implemented by the team at McDonough Dis...

Based in the Pennsylvania cities of Allentown, Bethlehem and Hazleton, Lehigh Valley Health Netwo...

Albany Medical Center developed the Child Advocacy Resident Education program that aims to improv...

Three Illinois hospitals received recognition for “delivering quality with distinction” by the Il...

The nation’s health care delivery system is in the midst of a transition from a fee-for-service a...

Many Medicare patients with life-limiting illnesses had no documented advanced directive while in...

Hospitals pursuing environmental sustainability are not only contributing to healthier communitie...

Building off the 2013 HPOE guide on value-based contracting this guide provides additional financ...

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

This guide explains why hospital leaders should explore sustainability strategies for their organ...

Today’s hospital and care system leaders are addressing challenges while maximizing opportunities...

The “second curve” of population health involves an integrated approach to improving patient and ...

This guide is a synopsis of a conversation held at the Association for Healthcare Resource & Mate...

Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...

Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...

The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...

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

The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...

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

Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...

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

Early and safe mobility of critically ill patients in a cardiovascular surgical intensive care un...

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

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, a division of Wheaton Franciscan Services, Inc., is a Catholic, no...

A nurse-driven protocol was implemented to increase the staff’s awareness on the appropriate indi...

The Red Box strategy was created to help reduce cost and health care worker time associated with ...

The critical care unit identified VAP as an area for improvement, with three VAPs from May-July 2...

In late January 2012, pharmacists began reviewing potential pneumonia patients using a screening ...

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

An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...

The 2012 AHA Committee on Performance Improvement focused on advanced illness management. Well-de...

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

This second report in this series expands and explains all three strategies and focuses on patien...

Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...

For the last century, the major causes of disease and death among Americans have changed, shiftin...

The implementation of accountable care organizations, a new health care payment and delivery mode...

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

The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...

On April 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services  released a final regulation for the ne...

Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...

Compassionate and cost effective is how Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Fla., des...

“End of life care,” “serious illness” or “advanced illness” are some of the terms used to categor...

Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...

Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and the Health Care Improvement Foundation (HCIF) partn...

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

The OSF cardiac service line implemented a STEMI Improvement project to identify obstacles that c...

As a small community hospital, ventilator-associated pneumonia incidence was low. However, the lo...

The results from a 32-month long national collaborative, Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac...

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

Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...

In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...

The goal of this initiative was to improve patient flow, outcomes, and experience, as well as com...

AIM focuses care on people with advanced illness, which often involves more than one chronic diag...

This commentary presents a model developed to explore how health information technology affects c...

This article discusses preliminary findings from the National Congress of American Indians Policy...

This report discusses the strenghts of community disease prevention offers and presents a framewo...

This policy paper examines the latest developments in accountable care organizations (ACOs), incl...

Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements ...

In a recent study, the non-profit Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. ranks 16th out of 16 nati...