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

October 28th, 2015
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  Violence is a serious safety issue for many communities and hospitals across the United States...

October 27th, 2015
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Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...

October 6th, 2015
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  For more than two decades, health services researchers have been using statewide hospital disc...

October 2nd, 2015
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More than 90 percent of U.S. hospitals are committed to population health. This is according to a...

September 21st, 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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To support hospitals embarking on their population health journey, the Health Research & Educatio...

August 24th, 2015
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Massachusetts General Hospital's (MGH) 2012 community health needs assessment, in which communiti...

July 16th, 2015
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Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

June 17th, 2015
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Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

June 17th, 2015
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National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

June 10th, 2015
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HPOE has teamed up with the Illinois Hospital Association to highlight its yearly quality awards....

June 10th, 2015
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The feeling of being truly cared for leaves a lasting impression and aids in the healing process....

June 8th, 2015
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When River Hospital, Alexandria Bay, N.Y., identified an unmet mental health need for active duty...

June 8th, 2015
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Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...

June 4th, 2015
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The AHA and the American Medical Association collaborated on this paper to present both physician...

June 3rd, 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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Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...

May 29th, 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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Protecting workers from exposure to all types of respiratory hazards is an important issue for ho...

May 15th, 2015
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HPOE and Leavitt Partners worked in collaboration to detail how accountable care organizations (A...

May 12th, 2015
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This article highlights what hospitals are doing to improve access to behavioral health services....

May 11th, 2015
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This toolkit from OSHA is availalbe to the public and contains references, educational resources ...

May 8th, 2015
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In addition to identifying priority health needs and aligning partners and resources to address c...

May 6th, 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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An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

March 27th, 2015
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The country’s highest presidential honor for performance excellence through innovation, improveme...

March 27th, 2015
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When hospitals care for victims of violence, it provides a window of opportunity to interrupt the...

March 16th, 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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This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, ...

March 10th, 2015
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Working with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this infographic summarizes the findings of a re...

February 23rd, 2015
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Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...

February 20th, 2015

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

February 17th, 2015
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Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, a 237-bed facility in Orlando, Florida, used best practices and peer-to...

February 5th, 2015
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Hospital Menonita de Aibonito, a 150-bed facility in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, used best practices a...

February 5th, 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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Presence Saint Joseph Hospital, a 184-bed facility in Elgin, Illinois, examined quality metrics t...

February 5th, 2015
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St. Catherine Hospital, a 189-bed facility in East Chicago, Indiana, used best practices and peer...

February 5th, 2015
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St. John's Hospital, a 431-bed facility in Springfield, Illinois, used best practices and peer-to...

February 5th, 2015
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UConn John Dempsey Hospital, a 174-bed facility in Farmington, Connecticut, used best practices a...

February 5th, 2015
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As the U.S. health care system transforms, hospitals are playing a greater role in building a cul...

January 15th, 2015
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What is it? Now in its third year, Camp Med is a three-day, hands-on experience at the hospital t...

January 1st, 2015
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