Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

April is National Minority Health Month, dedicated to raising awareness about health disparities ...

All future performance improvement projects will address health care disparities. That’s the comm...

Hospitals and health systems are intensifying their focus to ensure all patients receive high-qua...

Hospitals and health systems are focusing on cultural competence to create an environment and wor...

The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

The concept of the Triple Aim is  widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...

Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...

This handy visual aid illustrates the main points from "2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Benchma...

Based in the Pennsylvania cities of Allentown, Bethlehem and Hazleton, Lehigh Valley Health Netwo...

For nearly 20 years, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Jersey has partnered with the...

Community members are integral partners at Lehigh Valley Health Network in Pennsylvania, helping ...

California's Central Valley is known for its abundant fruits and vegetables; however, many famili...

The Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, a partner of the Brooklyn Health Disparities Center, ...

African immigrants and refugees represent four percent of the total population in the United Stat...

In 2013, the Connecticut Multicultural State Partnership, a non-profit health advocacy group, rec...

INTEGRIS Health is the largest Oklahoma-owned health care corporation. Its facilities cover the c...

This infographic provides a sample of the findings from the 2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Ben...

“Once a patient believes that you [the provider] understand them, we think the healing begins,” s...

Meridian Health is a leading not-for-profit health care organization in New Jersey, comprised of ...

This updated chartpack offers a snapshot of some common strategies used to improve the quality of...

The Greater Detroit Area Health Council is taking an innovative approach to reducing disparities ...

Womansplace Crisis Center is committed to working toward the elimination of violence against wome...

After more than a decade of war, many U.S. military service members have experienced an unprecede...

Providing the very best care—the goal of all hospitals and care givers—must include an understand...

Providing culturally competent care to patients requires a focus on more than just race, ethnicit...

n 2008, Barnes-Jewish Hospital center for diversity and cultural competence developed an 18-hourc...

Although, increasing diversity in the health care workforce and training health care providers to...

Although it is accepted that cultural competency training is a vital part of reducing health disp...

In order to deliver the highest quality and most appropriate health care, Georgia Health Sciences...

Interest in cross-cultural communication in health care has increased in recent years as provider...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Geriatric Education Center  provides geriatric education ...

Health plans and provider communities share a need for quality information that promotes cultural...

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Pharmacy developed a curriculum to add...

 Stanford Geriatric Education Center's geriatric training programs for health professionals are o...

The ADA committee at the Kaiser Woodland Hills facility was started in 2010 in an effort to compl...

As the United States becomes increasingly diverse and as individuals choose to be more acculturat...

This case study describes an evidence-based residency program that applies to an international au...

L.A. Care Health Plans developed an innovative video designed to inform deaf and hard-of-hearing ...

This case study explains Barnes-Jewish Hospital's approach to training it  4,100 team members thr...

This case study looks at he Joint Commission's recommendation related to culturally and linguisti...

Many immigrant parents rely on their children to help them communicate as ad hoc interpreters in ...

The University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health and its Center for Health Litera...

In 2005, the University of Washington School of Medicine was awarded a grant from the National In...

In a society as culturally diverse as the United States, especially in New York City,  members of...

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, a division of Wheaton Franciscan Services, Inc., is a Catholic, no...

The need for cultural competence among physician providers is widely recognized by accrediting bo...

The Cancer Legal Resource Center, joint program of the Disability Rights Legal Center and Loyola ...

Clinicians and health care providers incorporate evidence-based clinical interventions to improve...

Since 2011, a series of narrated video slideshow presentations has been under development at  Har...

Beginning in August 2007, the Arizona Department of Health Services' Health Disparities Center or...