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

November 4th, 2015
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This HPOE webinar highlights innovations for eliminating health care disparities and will feature...

October 14th, 2015
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Baseball managers tinker with team lineups to improve results on the field, and hospitals can do ...

October 12th, 2015
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Patient and family engagement is associated with fewer adverse events, lower health care costs, d...

September 15th, 2015
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Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...

September 14th, 2015
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Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...

September 9th, 2015

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

August 20th, 2015
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The Bridge Model improves transitions of care by utilizing master’s-educated social workers in a ...

July 27th, 2015
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Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs direct judicious antimicrobial use to optimize patient outcome...

June 16th, 2015
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The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

June 16th, 2015
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The Wisconsin Quality of Life Index is a multidimensional model for measuring patients’ quality o...

June 9th, 2015
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In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...

June 8th, 2015
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A patient's home environment or lack of support system can have a negative impact on their health...

June 8th, 2015
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To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...

June 2nd, 2015
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The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

May 27th, 2015
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The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...

April 11th, 2015
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April is National Minority Health Month. In 2011, the AHA and four partners formed Equity of Care...

March 30th, 2015
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An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

March 27th, 2015
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Hospitals and care systems are uniquely positioned to play an integral role preventing violence i...

March 11th, 2015
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Hospital Menonita de Cayey, a 208-bed facility in Cayey, Puerto Rico, used best practices and pee...

February 5th, 2015
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