Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Transportation and the Role of Hospitals This AHA webinar on “Transportation and the Role of Hos...

“Transportation and the Role of Hospitals” is part of a series of guides and resources released b...

HRET and Million Hearts® hosted a webinar on cardiac rehabilitation (CR), a comprehensive seconda...

Schuyler Hospital’s Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Schuyler initiative offers various opport...

Montefiore Medical Center’s goal was to increase access and supply of healthy food and beverage o...

To better serve its patients and reduce the effects of ineffective pain management, Mercy Hospita...

Washington Heights, a community impacted by 770 cases of domestic violence a day, now has the Fam...

This AHA  webinar was on the latest resource in our social determinants of health series, “Housin...

This compendium features detailed descriptions of hospital-community partnerships from across the...

It has become widely known that effective hospital-community partnerships are necessary in buildi...

“Housing and the Role of Hospitals” is the second guide released by the AHA, HRET and ACHI as par...

Advancing population health involves fostering effective and sustainable hospital-community partn...

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

The American Hospital Association hosted a webinar that is an extension of the “Social Determinan...

As part of our work to Advance Health in America, the AHA, HRET and ACHI are launching a series o...

Though health care professionals at hospitals work tirelessly to help patients get and stay healt...

The American Hospital Association and the Health Research & Educational Trust are working to supp...

This week, June 4-10, 2017, the AHA's Association for Community Health Improvement is celebrating...

This infographic provides a summary of the Association for Community Health Improvement’s Communi...

On May 7, 2017, I swore an oath to become the 118th chairman of the American Hospital Association...

As part of the American Hospital Association’s Hospital Against Violence initiative, Hospitals in...

Partnering—not competing—with other health organizations is how many hospitals are working to imp...

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

The next generation of community health will serve as the foundation for total population health....

Community health initiatives that start with small successes can lead to bigger changes. St. Cath...

The 2017 chair files will begin highlighting efforts that are improving community health beyond t...

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

Trust is among the most important currencies we have as health care leaders. And during these tim...

Communities around the country are experiencing challenges in preventing substance use. For some ...

Improving the health of communities where people live, work and play is more important than ever....

To improve community health, Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics (MGH&FC) in Shelton, Wash...

Increasingly, hospitals and health systems are forming partnerships to attain the new and demandi...

More and more hospitals are offering a wide variety of health and wellness programs and benefits ...

Adirondack Health is working with multiple sectors of the community, such as the Franklin County ...

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

Hospitals can create a culture of health in their own organization and in the community by develo...

As consumers increasingly rely on information and reviews from a variety of sources to access all...

The Community Health Network (CHN) targets the socioeconomic determinants of health that are not ...

Today, about one out of three children and adolescents ages 2-19 in the United States is overweig...

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

Carthage Area Hospital is improving patient and employee experiences by providing them with fresh...

Developing and sustaining hospital-community partnerships to address community health needs are c...

Effective and sustainable hospital-community partnerships are critical to building a Culture of H...

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

Community health needs assessments—CHNAs—are becoming a driver of community collaborations and a ...

As nonprofit hospitals in the U.S. complete a community health needs assessments (CHNA) process, ...

This guide features case studies of the 2015 Foster G. McGaw Prize winner and finalists. These ex...

Hospitals and communities are increasingly recognizing the importance of effective partnerships w...

For its excellent work addressing community health needs, Massachusetts General Hospital in Bosto...

Hospitals and health systems continually push to improve the health of their communities. Massach...

Demand for Brockton Neighborhood Health Center (BNHC) accelerated after it started in 1994 as a m...

Codman Square Health Center in downtown Dorchester, MA exemplifies how a health center can build ...

North Country HealthCare is a federally qualified health center serving fourteen communities in n...

Claremont Village is a New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) public housing development in the ...

As one of only two hospitals in Yuma County, Yuma District Hospital and Clinic (YDHC) can ascerta...

A powerful tool for hospitals to address priority health needs of their patient population and th...

Across the United States, nonprofit hospitals are conducting community health needs assessments, ...

Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) have the potential to be powerful drivers to enhance t...

June 5–11 is Community Health Improvement Week. The AHA’s Association for Community Health Improv...

An intervention to prevent childhood obesity has blossomed into a communitywide effort led by a l...

The link between hunger, food insecurity and poor health has been clearly acknowledged as a serio...

Hospitals and faith organizations are collaborating to improve health care outcomes and organize ...

St. Joseph Health, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a 208-bed hospital in Napa, California, is...

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

The Baystate Health Breast and Wellness Center, created in 2013, is a combination of two premier ...

Four years ago this hospital had no clinical leadership development program. Physician leaders wi...

Through this initiative, Highland Healthcare Associates IPA seeks to improve the physician's expe...

Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Physician’s Organization implem...

Boston Children’s Hospital and its associated pediatric primary care physicians organization coll...

The Care Tracker program at Signature Healthcare collates data from multiple sources, including b...

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

Injectable extended-release formulation of naltrexone marketed as Vivitrol is a recent significan...

Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...

The School Based Care Coordination Program supports at-risk youth and families in two school dist...

CDC data shows that over 70 percent of patients with pre-diabetes will develop type 2 diabetes du...

To meet a high demand for Chinese interpreters, the Tufts Medical Center Interpreter Services wor...

With the national focus on decreasing hospital-acquired infections, Massachusetts General Hospita...

At Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, the pediatric intensive care unit has been implem...

Dedicated to eliminating catheter-associated urinary tract infections, North Shore Medical Center...

Approximately 28 percent of the hospital's patients with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) are readm...

Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) account for 30-40 percent of the organizati...

T4P/BREATHE is an inter-professional project created in response to improving patient outcomes an...

The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...

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

Sanpete Valley Hospital, a critical access hospital in Mount Pleasant, Utah, is leading behaviora...

The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) released the Nurse Executive Competencies: P...

To address disparities in health care outcomes, Main Line Health is proactively addressing socioe...

More and more hospitals and health systems are leading community collaborations to create positiv...

The largest drivers of disease in populations are unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, unhealthy...

The Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina is an unprecedented volunteer collaboration of more t...

This case study presents the story of CareSouth Carolina and the Northeastern Rural Health Networ...

CDMHC’s innovative programs divert hundreds of patients from the hospitals and emergency departme...

  Violence is a serious safety issue for many communities and hospitals across the United States...

It is certain that health status is profoundly influenced by the places in which people live, wor...

More than 90 percent of U.S. hospitals are committed to population health. This is according to a...

In July of 2009, Olean General Hospital embarked on a journey to improve outcomes for cardiac pat...

Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...

Hypertension—the silent killer—impacts more than one in three Americans and is a leading cause of...

Education that increases awareness is one of the best ways to transform health outcomes. But, as ...