Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

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

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

There is a critical need to elevate the discussion around workforce planning and development to e...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Hospitals strive to achieve the Triple Aim. This collection of case studies features three exampl...

A new HPOE Guide “Increasing Supplier Diversity in Health Care” provides action steps and case st...

To support hospitals embarking on their population health journey, the Health Research & Educatio...

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

The AHA and the American Medical Association collaborated on this paper to present both physician...

HPOE and Leavitt Partners worked in collaboration to detail how accountable care organizations (A...

To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...

Hospitals and care systems are uniquely positioned to play an integral role preventing violence i...

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

U.S. hospitals aree xploring what it means to be a hospital in a rapidly transforming health care...

This handy visual aid illustrates the main points from "2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Benchma...

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

Hospital-based Strategies for Creating a Culture of Health provides background on the Robert Wood...

Although rare and difficult to study, wrong-site surgery is a serious risk recognized by health c...

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

Cybersecurity vulnerabilities and intrusions pose risks for every hospital and its reputation. Wh...

With the rise in higher-deductible health plans and coinsurance, Americans are paying an increasi...

The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...

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

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

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

Results from an Association for Community Health Improvement and American Hospital Association Su...

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

This guide includes two sections that address collection and use of patient race, ethnicity and l...

This annual survey of employers provides a detailed look at trends in employer-sponsored health c...

The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...

To become an effective population health manager, a hospital must create effective partnerships. ...

The AHA’s framework for health reform, Health for Life, embraces the need to engage patients and ...

In 2012 the AHA Committee on Research focused on actively engaging health care users to improve o...

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

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

Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...

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

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are forming in communities across the country. In ACOs, hea...

This guide provides hospital leaders with a snapshot of hospitals' current readiness to participa...

To meet patient needs in the current market, hospitals have traditionally focused their efforts o...

As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

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

Market forces are driving renewed interest in integration that may result in changes in the owner...

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

The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...

Throughout the United States, allied hospital associations—state, regional and metropolitan—are w...

This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a...

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

Why Is Focusing On Preventable Mortality Important?Hospital leaders work hard every day to provid...

Given economic and industry trends related to the worldwide financial markets, the nation's econo...

This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

This guide communicates the idea that workforce and human resource practices can positively impac...

Due to the size and breadth of their organizations, multi-hospital health system leaders have a s...

Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine shocked the health care field and the general public wit...

The content of this best-practices guide, and the process by which it was assembled, are emblemat...