Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

There is a critical need to elevate the discussion around workforce planning and development to e...

In response to a rapidly transforming health care environment, hospitals and health systems acros...

Hospitals are working to achieve all elements of the Triple Aim by redesigning traditional ways o...

While much work has been done in the hospital setting, patient falls continue to be a problem. As...

The AHA's Physician Leadership Forum and Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative have relea...

A key component to making patient care safer is to track your data and progress towards improveme...

This HPOE guide, a collaboration with the American Society for Healthcare Engineering, explores w...

The Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) developed this compendium to link patient and fami...

Read about how patient and family engagement practices are related to patient experiences. This s...

Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in...

The AHA and the American Medical Association collaborated on this paper to present both physician...

To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...

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

Although rare and difficult to study, wrong-site surgery is a serious risk recognized by health c...

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

Generational differences—one factor of diversity—are changing workforce dynamics. Traditionalists...

This guide describes a three-step action plan from the On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI project that helps...

This resource gives hospital and health system leaders concrete, practical steps grounded on evid...

The Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Networks are designed to improve patient care ac...

In 2012 the AHA Committee on Research focused on actively engaging health care users to improve o...

Palliative care specializes in taking care of patients with serious illness and focuses on provid...

This guide describes how HCAHPS data should be used in context with other information about organ...

Early elective deliveries have been proven to increase the risk of adverse health outcomes post d...

The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...

This guide serves to explore the concept of cultural competency and build the case for the enhanc...

This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...