Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Since September 2015, the American Hospital Association (AHA)/Health Research & Educational Trust...

A new report from MHA and Collaborative Healthcare Strategies— State of the State: Reducing Readm...

The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) released the Nurse Executive Competencies: P...

In this study, the research team sought to compare the performance of provider-sponsored health p...

This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

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

This issue brief continues the program’s examination of state-level community benefit oversight b...

The Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) Guides are a suite of tools that include ...

The 2014 AHA Chair-elect Jonathan  Perlin, MD, co-authored this paper and companion financial mod...

This article discusses how using health adjusted life expectacy could bridge the gap between clin...

This brief focuses on updating significant points concerning community health needs assessment an...

This toolkit helps track community partnerships, assess opportunities for increased engagement an...

This report discusses the importance of health in all policies, an approach to improving health b...

This article aims to define the term "healthy communities" based on existing literature on the to...

In California, about 16 percent of the adult population, more than 4 million people, have mental ...

This report from the Department of Health and Human Services describes a plan to bolster implemen...

This report indentifies and explains guiding principles to inform the implementation ofCommunity ...

This primer discusses community benefit laws across the United States, noting differences in fede...

This book provides practical skills for building communities. Chapters three, four and five addre...

This report details the Institute of Medicine's roundtable on population health improvement and d...

This report discusses strategies to help health care leaders prioritize three foundational elemen...

This report identifies steps that policy, public health and community stakeholders can take to pr...

In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...

Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...

A central goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to significantly reduce the n...

Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

The Affordable Care Act and state Medicaid reform efforts present opportunities to reengineer hea...

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

Assisted living facilities allow residents to "age in place" by adjusting their level of care and...

Three hazards involve health IT system-related technologies While today's health technology adva...

Efforts to improve U.S. health care must include payment reforms that encourage greater efficienc...

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

The Association of American Medical Colleges is pleased to present Diversity in Medical Education...

Acute care hospitals have been establishing palliative programs at a rapid pace; the United States n...

Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

Medicaid is the nation's health coverage program for the low-income population, covering , more t...

For the  last 15 years, public hospitals have pursued multiple strategies to help maintain financ...

This report is part of a new effort to provide medical students with information about the patter...

Annual analysis of the health care of a record number of Americans by the National Committee for ...

Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...

Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...

Standardization of blood utilization practices could provide opportunity for improved outcomes, r...

Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...

Accelerating Care Integration Lack of care coordination and integration was identified as a majo...

Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...

The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...

How to solve the problem? Many practices have found the answer in the creation of high-functionin...