Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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...

Recognizing the need to build a just culture, the leadership team at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hos...

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

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...

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

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

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

A house wide effort was lead this year to teach and embed continuous improvement methodology and ...

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

Tufts Medical Center made a decision to create its own quality improvement training for its workf...

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

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

The ICMP Program is a Care Manager collaborative created to ensure the transition of patient care...

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

The skilled nursing facility three-day waiver program is an exciting opportunity at Partners Heal...

Nighttime or off-shift intubations are a low-frequency, high-risk procedure in a community hospit...

At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a small group of challenging patients account for a disproportio...

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

The Perioperative Medicine Model of Care is a three-pronged approach to the postoperative care of...

North Shore Medical Center is dedicated to safely transitioning all emergency department patients...

TEMPO: Together Everyone Improves Patient Outcomes, an initiative undertaken at Saint Vincent Hos...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Newton-Wellesley Hospital reviewed rates of third and fourth degree obstetrical trauma (Patient S...

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...

The integrated specialty pharmacy program at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., i...

In early 2010, Emerson Hospital board members, medical staff and executive leaders convened to ad...

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

Hallmark Health System, Inc., is participating in the Community-based Care Transitions Program (C...

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...

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...

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

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

The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

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

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

Palmetto Health has pursued multiple initiatives and strategies to promote a healthy community an...

United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia, N.Y., focused on patients with congestive heart failure,...

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

The Human Services Alliance of Beaufort County is one of the oldest coalitions for health improve...

The Road to Better Health Spartanburg has proven that working collectively and in partnership wit...

Montefiore Medical Center's School Health Program is the largest and most comprehensive school-ba...

Healthy Communities of Clinton County Coalition Two teams of community members--a coalition of h...

Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health CenterWindsor, VT60 Beds The Problem Mt. Ascutney Hospital and ...

Yuma District HospitalYuma, CO12 Beds The Problem Yuma District Hospital, located in Yuma, Color...

Cheyenne Regional Medical CenterCheyenne, WY222 Beds The Problem Cheyenne Regional Medical Cente...

Cheyenne Regional Medical Center and Cheyenne Health and Wellness Center partner on several initi...

Chambers County was designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration as one of the ...

Davis Health System is a health care network that includes 90-bed Davis Memorial Hospital, 12-bed...

ProMedica’s (NW Ohio and SE Michigan) mission is to improve the health and well-being of the peop...

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...

There is often a lack of coordination among the various health and social systems that provide in...

Methodist Le Bonheur HealthcareMemphis, TN1,321 Beds The Congregational Health Network is a part...

Cambridge Health AllianceCambridge, MA229 Beds Cambridge Health Alliance is an integrated health...

Kaiser PermanenteOakland, CAKaiser Permanente is a health care provider and nonprofit health plan...

Geisinger Health SystemDanville, PA545 Beds Geisinger Health System is an integrated health serv...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...

Using Plan-Do-Study-Act, this initiative prioritized utilization of spirometry as the standard di...

In 2009, North Central Bronx Hospital analyzed data from its diabetes registry to identify opport...

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

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

This article presents four case studies of effective community and academic partnership that impr...

The Problem Almost 20 percent of Medicare beneficiaries are readmitted to the hospital within 30...

From October 2009 to February 2011, MR CHAMMP sponsored 67 programs which were provided to the co...

Mercy has participated in developing a network of health care providers and community agencies to...

In the Pink is a program of Saint Michael's Medical Center and the program provides outreach, edu...