Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Equity of Care Webinar SeriesPart 1: Aligning Diversity and Inclusion, Community Engagement, Busi...

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

Nearly 1,500 hospitals and health systems are participating in the AHA’s #123forEquity Pledge to ...

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

Hospitals and health systems are working hard to ensure that every person in every community rece...

The Institute for Diversity in Health Management in collaboration with the AHA's Hospitals in Pur...

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

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

To effectively identify racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care, it is essential ...

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

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

Since 2007, The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Psychiatry Residency program has help...

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

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

  For more than two decades, health services researchers have been using statewide hospital disc...

As hospitals expand their focus on providing equitable care, attention on those who are lesbian, ...

The Heathcare Association of New York State announced its 2015 Community Health Improvement award...

Leadership is needed to direct resources and programs aimed at reducing health care disparitities...

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

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

Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...

The Muskegon Community Health Project, in partnership with Mercy Health Partners, is an inclusive...

 Hospital leaders struggle to provide effective care coordination to vulnerable populations. In 2...

Working toward the Triple Aim of better care, better health and lower cost means achieving the go...

AnMed Health is a non-profit health system and the largest employer in Anderson County, South Car...

In 2006 the Board of Trustees of Greenville Health System (GHS) committed to develop a workforce ...

This toolkit is a user-friendly “how-to” guide to help accelerate the elimination of health care ...

Read about the many programs that Novant Health has developed around leadership diversity includi...

This guide provides a framework for hospitals and care systems to stratify patient race, ethnicit...

The foundation of all efforts to identify disparities, improve quality, achieve equity and delive...

Equity of Care, in collaboration with the Institute for Diversity in Health Management is featuri...

The Stars of the Field is H&HN's second annual AHA awards issue. Hospitals that are making tremen...

This issue brief continues the program’s examination of state-level community benefit oversight b...

Population health is receiving increased attention for its role in improving health care, specifi...

National Hospital Week celebrates the men and women working in U.S. hospitals and care systems wh...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

To help those with reading and language challenges, UVA Health System staff developed a curriculu...

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...

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

During 2012, despite economic challenges, hospitals and health care systems throughout the United...

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

A monograph from the Association of American Medical Colleges, in partnership with the Institute ...

The mobile app from HPOE will ensure you receive up-to-date alerts when new HPOE guides are relea...

The Florida Hospital Association is proud to recognize the 2012 Celebration of Achievement in Qua...

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

Diabetes is among the ten leading causes of death in both white and African American patients, bu...

The Health Disparities Cancer Collaborative implemented six components of the chronic care model ...

This commentary was written by  Daren R. Anderson, MD, vice president and chief quality officer, ...

This article discusses how clinically at-risk and socially disadvantaged populations may not be f...

A collection of 10 short essays by the industry luminaries who have received HRET's TRUST Award s...

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

This chartpack offers a snapshot of some common strategies used to improve the quality of care th...

May 13-19 is National Women's Health Week, a project of the U.S. Health and Human Services' Offic...

This webinar highlighted the essential elements within care coordination strategies for the dual ...

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

Evidence-based practice is an essential requirement of professional health care providers. Rural ...

Baylor Health Care SystemDallas, TX3,653 Beds The Problem The Baylor Health Care System Office o...

Adventist HealthCareRockville, Maryland1,045 Beds The Problem Adventist HealthCare created the C...

The hospital partnered with the Wyoming Department of Health to work to eliminate health disparit...

This toolkit provides a comprehensive approach to the collection of race, ethnicity and primary l...

New York-Presbyterian HospitalNew York, NY2,264 Beds The Problem New York-Presbyterian Hospital’...

The IOM's Roundtable on Health Literacy brings together leaders from the federal government, foun...

This annual webinar highlights thhe 2011 AHA-McKesson  Quest forQuality winners and finalists. 20...

Providing high-quality care to every child has always been the objective at Children's Mercy Hosp...

In this article, the author argues that health equity is best achieved by securing access to high...

This article proposes an examination of health disparities through the lens of public health to p...

Racial and socioeconomic inequity persists in health care quality. An exploratory interview with ...

St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, Conn., has taken a lead role in creating the Hope Dis...

The Healthy Start/Healthy Families program primary goal is preventing chronic health problems in ...

Migrant Health Promotion strives to improve the ability of migrant farm worker families to live h...

These programs take health education, information and related services directly to community memb...

This article discusses strategies to maximize improvement in overall population health and sugges...

This article discusses definitions of population health and how various models of can operational...