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Hospitals and health systems recognized for excellence in health care equity are sharing their wo...
April is National Minority Health Month, dedicated to raising awareness about health disparities ...
A vigorous approach to quality improvement at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Ill., is ac...
Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...
Nine in 10 adults in the community lacked the literacy skills to manage their health and prevent ...
What does it take to be a winner? Children's Hospital Colorado received the 2015 AHA-McKesson Que...
The work to advance health care equity is always evolving, always improving at Henry Ford Health ...
Building successful partnerships with patients and families may be a key strategy in a hospital’s...
Working toward the Triple Aim of better care, better health and lower cost means achieving the go...
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...
Providing world-class quality health care may seem an audacious goal for a small or rural hospita...
Preventing hospital-acquired infections, reducing surgical complications and reducing readmission...
After more than a decade of war, many U.S. military service members have experienced an unprecede...
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...
In July 2013, the AHA released another collection of action-oriented resources that can help hosp...
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...
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...
"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...
Occupying a five-block campus on Chicago's west side and serving an area that stretches about 15 ...
Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...
Providing high-quality care to every child has always been the objective at Children's Mercy Hosp...
Poor planning. High costs. These issues helped prompt Saint Joseph-London in London, Ky., to impr...
Transplant recipients are fragile patients, at high risk for infections and fluid and electrolyte...
Quality improvement and transparency go hand in hand, David Ballard, M.D., senior vice president ...
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis wanted to transform its organization and in turn, transformed i...
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, wanted to transform its organization and in turn, transformed ...