Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

Community health initiatives that start with small successes can lead to bigger changes. St. Cath...

The 2016 chairman's columns have focused on  inspiring stories about hospitals and health systems...

Quality and safety are “top of the agenda” at urban and rural hospitals across the country. At Ho...

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

Homelessness is a hidden but real issue in Chittenden County, VT. University of Vermont Medical C...

At hospitals and health care systems across the country, executives, clinicians and staff are lea...

“Every staff member counts” and “every patient counts.” With this mantra, AllianceHealth Pryor in...

June 5–11 is Community Health Improvement Week. The AHA’s Association for Community Health Improv...

The Sunday Shoes Program is an innovative solution to help heart failure patients monitor weight ...

A collaborative network of hospitals and community organizations is improving behavioral health c...

Every day, hospitals are successfully meeting challenges and providing quality care in their comm...

To address disparities in health care outcomes, Main Line Health is proactively addressing socioe...

Mission accomplished, but the work continues. At Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in L...

Join more than 900 hospitals and health systems and 30 state and metropolitan hospital associatio...

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

A unique telemedicine consultation between a rural hospital and skilled rehabilitation/nursing fa...

A population health initiative in Rochester, New York, is bringing together two health care syste...

Patient engagement is paramount to reducing readmissions and improving quality of life. That’s wh...

Partnering in 2014, the AHA Committee on Research and AHA Committee on Performance Improvement fo...

It is estimated that 25 percent of falls by hospital patients are preventable. Saint Alphonsus Re...

A “simple” complex plan is reducing readmissions at Wythe County Community Hospital, a 100-bed fa...

A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...

A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...

The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...

How do you successfully integrate behavioral health and primary care? A recent HPOE webinar highl...

Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typic...

Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...

The rural community of Ellenville, New York (population 4,000), and the New York borough of Brook...

Walk into an ER for treatment and walk out with a medical home. Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospit...

Wrong site surgeries are rare and difficult to study. But most health care organizations recogniz...

A strategy to use a single, integrated EMR has helped make Elliot Health System, based in Manches...

Clinical IT systems create great opportunities and challenges, especially for rural hospitals. St...

Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...

Restructuring care has reduced readmissions at St. Mary?s Duluth (MN) Clinic Heart and Vascular ...

Statistics fans, check out these numbers: Staff at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) has...

An integrated approach to project design drove breakthrough improvement in operating results at S...

Front-line nurses led the way in a medication safety initiative at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, S...

Rethinking a registration process kept its meds system in compliance. St. James Hospital and Heal...

Timely access to health care is important for everyone, particularly our nation's veterans. From ...

Rarely does an orthopedic physician discuss information workflow with an ER doc, but at Regions H...

Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...

Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...

As hospitals and health systems adjust to a new health care environment, quality performance and ...

For expectant mothers at risk for childbirth complications, the OB assist team at Abington (Pa.) ...

ED bottlenecks are common problems in hospitals causing excessive wait times, decreasing patient ...