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Hospitals and health systems recognized for excellence in health care equity are sharing their wo...
This week, June 4-10, 2017, the AHA's Association for Community Health Improvement is celebrating...
This weekend kicks off a not-to-be-missed event for hospital and health system leaders: the AHA’s...
April is National Minority Health Month, dedicated to raising awareness about health disparities ...
March 12-18, 2017, is Patient Safety Awareness Week, led by the National Patient Safety Foundatio...
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...
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...
Trust is among the most important currencies we have as health care leaders. And during these tim...
The 2016 chairman's columns have focused on inspiring stories about hospitals and health systems...
All future performance improvement projects will address health care disparities. That’s the comm...
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...
Hospitals and health systems are intensifying their focus to ensure all patients receive high-qua...
Hospitals are helping students with disabilities transition from school to the workplace. Mat-Su ...
A health system in rural Minnesota has helped develop an innovative model to prevent prescription...
A vigorous approach to quality improvement at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Ill., is ac...
Community health needs assessments—CHNAs—are becoming a driver of community collaborations and a ...
For its excellent work addressing community health needs, Massachusetts General Hospital in Bosto...
A powerful tool for hospitals to address priority health needs of their patient population and th...
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 Sunday Shoes Program is an innovative solution to help heart failure patients monitor weight ...
Ten years ago, Mercy began telemedicine in its ICUs to improve patient outcomes. Today the St. Lo...
Creating a quieter hospital environment can help the healing process and improve the patient expe...
April is National Minority Health Month. Led by the HHS Office of Minority Health, the 2016 event...
When outpatients at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, were frequently getting lost on their way to app...
Hospitals and faith organizations are collaborating to improve health care outcomes and organize ...
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...
More and more hospitals and health systems are leading community collaborations to create positiv...
Join more than 900 hospitals and health systems and 30 state and metropolitan hospital associatio...
Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...
In accord with their commitment to equity of care and leadership diversity, hospitals and health ...
Baseball managers tinker with team lineups to improve results on the field, and hospitals can do ...
Nine in 10 adults in the community lacked the literacy skills to manage their health and prevent ...
More than 90 percent of U.S. hospitals are committed to population health. This is according to a...
What does it take to be a winner? Children's Hospital Colorado received the 2015 AHA-McKesson Que...
Addressing the complex needs of older patients and their caregivers is the focus of the Bridge Mo...
The work to advance health care equity is always evolving, always improving at Henry Ford Health ...
Diversity and inclusion are key strategic goals at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in cen...
Two health care systems and more than 20 community organizations are improving the health and wel...
Working with community organizations, including competitors, Palmetto Health is improving the hea...
May 31 - June 6, 2015, is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health...
Scorecards aren’t just for baseball and boxing. Health care leaders are using scorecards to track...
Learning, sharing resources and discussing projects on cutting-edge topics in health care transfo...
Building successful partnerships with patients and families may be a key strategy in a hospital’s...
April is National Minority Health Month. In 2011, the AHA and four partners formed Equity of Care...
When hospitals care for victims of violence, it provides a window of opportunity to interrupt the...
Working toward the Triple Aim of better care, better health and lower cost means achieving the go...
University Hospitals, Cleveland, is advancing multiple care equity initiatives. The over 2,000-be...
Building a culture that is inclusive and founded on principles of diversity was a “key destinatio...
Take best practices from two industries focused on safety and reliability—nuclear power and aviat...
Take best practices from two industries focused on safety and reliability—nuclear power and aviat...
“Once a patient believes that you [the provider] understand them, we think the healing begins,” s...
Three Illinois hospitals received recognition for “delivering quality with distinction” by the Il...
A national leader in health care equity, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has developed s...
Hospitals and health care systems can support their missions and also many additional benefits by...
Transition coaches may be the “glue” between hospital visits and primary care. So says Julie Cann...
Transition coaches may be the “glue” between hospital visits and primary care. So says Julie Cann...
More than 20 hospitals came together with community organizations in the Cincinnati area to provi...
Providing world-class quality health care may seem an audacious goal for a small or rural hospita...
The statistics are staggering: The number of Americans diagnosed with diabetes has risen from 1.5...
Preventing hospital-acquired infections, reducing surgical complications and reducing readmission...
The path to eliminating disparities in health care has a few roadblocks: limited resources and ac...
After more than a decade of war, many U.S. military service members have experienced an unprecede...
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 ...
Learn from the best of the best. The 2013 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize® recipients will s...
At North Shore-LIJ Health System, teamwork is everywhere. This New York health system uses TeamST...
A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...
A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...
In July 2013, the AHA released another collection of action-oriented resources that can help hosp...
Here’s a disheartening statistic from the National Cancer Institute: in the United States, white ...
Here's a disheartening statistic from the National Cancer Institute: in the United States, white ...
June 2–8 is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health Improvement s...
June 2–8 is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health Improvement s...
Patients may be Christian, Jew, Muslim or of any other religious expression—at Lutheran Medical C...
Telepsychiatry is playing a pivotal role in providing timely care to hospitalized mental health p...
More than 64 million surgeries are performed annually in the United States. Preventing surgical s...
Ensuring the highest quality for patient care means continuously reviewing processes and outcomes...
April is National Minority Health Month. Launched in April 2001 by the National Minority Health F...
The Backyard Initiative at Allina Health, based in Minnesota, is truly taking care beyond hospita...
Effective care transitions programs can do more than improve patient care: patients learn to mana...
A commitment to diversity came first. That was followed by specific action projects to increase d...
A commitment to diversity came first. That was followed by specific action projects to increase d...
Year after year, America’s hospitals respond to meet pressing community health care needs. In 200...
During 2012, despite economic challenges, hospitals and health care systems throughout the United...
One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...
"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...
"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...
A just culture. A culture of transparency. A patient-first culture. Culture transformation at Uni...
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...
Continuous. Quality. Improvement. To achieve that goal, Meriter Hospital, a 448-bed facility in M...
Every four years, the Olympic Games recognize athletes on a quest to be the best in their chosen ...
Small but mighty describes Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hosp...
E-mail, e-books, e-commerce. And now for patients, eVisits. At the University of Pittsburgh Medic...
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in American men, after skin cancer. According to...
It?s estimated that patients remember and understand about half of the information they receive f...
