Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

One out of five Americans, or over 40 million people, struggle with behavioral health each day. I...

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

You may not know Rachelle Schultz of Winona, MN—but you probably can appreciate the concerns she ...

In response to a rapidly transforming health care environment, hospitals and health systems acros...

BackgroundHenry Ford Health System is a not-for-profit corporation composed of hospitals, medical...

A complete list of every HPOE/HRET guide created since 2010. This list features nearly 80 guides ...

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

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

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

Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...

The hospital identified two process improvement opportunities related to medication safety effort...

The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's quality award submissions are highlighted on HPOE....

Post-discharge phone calls are best practice, but multiple phone calls can confuse and frustrate ...

This AHA report provides a review of the current state for the behavioral health workforce, outli...

Over the past 20 years, nursing homes have been undertaking a cultural transition to look and fee...

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...

The premise of this project was that failure to maintain a patient's respect and dignity represen...

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

Patient and system tracers have been conducted at this institution since 2008. Prior to this proj...

As the conventional analogy notes, change occurs when an organization finds itself atop a burning...

In 2012, a physician-led Pioneer accountable care organization recognized an opportunity to bette...

North Shore Medical Center aims to provide the perfect patient experience based on evidence-based...

Under the leadership of the Process Improvement (PI) Department, the organization has been drivin...

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

Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that diagnostic care for patients who were referred within the...

New England Quality Care Alliance, a physician network, implemented a medication prior authorizat...

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...

The project's goal was to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in trached and ...

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

This health care system's unique post-acute care (PAC) continuum of Inpatient Rehabilitation Faci...

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

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...

In 2015, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation funded HRET to strengthen care transitions by crea...

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

TeamSTEPPS is designed to improve patient safety through effective communication and teamwork ski...

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...

North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System opened a facility to treet heavioral health and prim...

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in...

After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...

This toolkit has tips on  Selecting Patients and Families to Serve as Advisors Preparation fo...

When River Hospital, Alexandria Bay, N.Y., identified an unmet mental health need for active duty...

At hospitals, health care systems and state, regional and metropolitan hospital associations acro...

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

Lake Placid and Tupper Lake, nursing homes that are part of Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, N.Y....

Ascension Health created a business unit called Transformational Development. It is charged with ...

This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, ...

The answer is HPOE.org. The question: Where do hospital and care system leaders find resources an...

With four hospitals and more than 120 employed medical providers, St. Charles Health System is a ...

Managing population health, financial planning for value-based care and payment, and leading impr...

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

At hospitals, health care systems and state, regional and metropolitan hospital associations acro...

This article found that county characteristics are independently associated with higher hospital ...

The winds of change in health care are swirling around us: shifting patient and workforce demogra...

This infographic shows what 40-year-old Americans would pay for a second-lowest-cost silver excha...

This case study describes a pilot program to find out the effect that integrative behavioral heal...

One in four Americans experiences a behavioral health illness or substance abuse disorder each ye...

This Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence guide explains the value of integrating physical and beha...

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

This report discusses the importance of health in all policies, an approach to improving health b...

In July 2013, the AHA released another collection of action-oriented resources that can help hosp...

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

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

The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quali...

The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...

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

The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...

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

African American older adults are at greater risk of depression due to the higher incidence of ch...

Today we need leaders who can help address the challenges and maximize the tremendous opportuniti...

Informed Medical Decisions FoundationBoston, MAThe Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, founded...

Emory HealthcareAtlanta, GA Emory Healthcare, a large academic teaching system, deployed a patie...

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

Kaiser Permanente developed a home-based model of palliative care that uses an interdisciplinary ...

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

In 1996, as the growth in managed care increased the role for general internists and primary care...

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

AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...

Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

Secondary analysis of data from two studies examining palliative care in rural areas was conducte...

Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...

An article on the SF Gate website profiles the new wave of medical school graduates, millennial a...

Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...

Mayo Clinic has four operating unites to create new tools, processes and businesses. The Division...

Partner's created the Center for Connected Health to promote technology-enabled innovations in te...

Kaiser maintains a number of operating units to identify and test innovations. The Center for Tot...

Quality is the first word that comes to mind when we talk about the American Hospital Association...

Wishard Health ServicesIndianapolis, IN293 Beds  The Problem Geriatric Resources for Assessment ...

Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

Commonwealth Care Alliance Boston, MA The Problem Commonwealth Care Alliance, which functions bo...

Summa Health SystemAkron, OH461 Beds The Problem Summa Health System serves a five county region...

The closed-door discussion focused on the best practices of organizations that have won or were f...

Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...

In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conduc...

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