Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The disease management process at Bassett Medical Center was positively impacted after the hospit...

The work of a Washington D.C. collaborative of hospitals and FQHCs is benefiting the entire commu...

Advance care planning is a critical element of wellness for all adult patients, regardless of dia...

Concussions are a growing problem for young athletes. The hospital’s overall goal is to educate a...

The organization used Lean Six Sigma process techniques to identify and support improved efficien...

This HPOE guide, developed by Kaufman Hall, provides key considerations in partnering for populat...

State and regional hospital associations across the United States are recognizing hospitals and h...

The collaborative was launched by Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care in 2012 to trans...

Approximately two years ago frontline staff presented a proposal to remove bed and chair alarms f...

The health system's vision in 2014 was "to transform the delivery and financing of health care to...

As the complexity and cost of cancer care increases, there is an urgent need to support and track...

Diagnostic care for patients referred within the institution for suspicious lung lesions was vari...

In 2008, the two hospital systems partnered with the city of Whittier, the YMCA of Greater Whitti...

In addition to identifying priority health needs and aligning partners and resources to address c...

The Department of Veterans Affairs home-based primary care  began in 1972.  Home-based primary ca...

Excellent patient-centered care is the goal of a program implemented by the team at McDonough Dis...

Albany Medical Center developed the Child Advocacy Resident Education program that aims to improv...

After identifying inequities with affordable access to primary care services and an uncoordinated...

The “second curve” of population health involves an integrated approach to improving patient and ...

AHA NOVA Awards honor effective, collaborative programs focused on improving community health sta...

Children diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities and behavior disorders need q...

 HPOE is pleased to highlight case studies from the Illinois Hospital Association’s Institute f...

While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...

For the last century, the major causes of disease and death among Americans have changed, shiftin...

The implementation of accountable care organizations, a new health care payment and delivery mode...

Compassionate and cost effective is how Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Fla., des...

The goal of this initiative was to improve patient flow, outcomes, and experience, as well as com...

AIM focuses care on people with advanced illness, which often involves more than one chronic diag...

This report discusses the strenghts of community disease prevention offers and presents a framewo...

This policy paper examines the latest developments in accountable care organizations (ACOs), incl...

This brief, based on site visits from Nov. 2009 through March 2010, highlights care coordination ...

The rate of "mortality amenable to health care" that is--deaths that are considered preventable w...

A report released jointly by AARP's Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN F...

This report summarizes the results of that survey, which indicated that overall influenza vaccina...

W hat is patient- and family-centered care? Why does it matter? How does it fit with a hospital's...

This article discusses definitions of population health and how various models of can operational...