Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

  The patient experience is more important today than ever before, with payments tied to patie...

April is National Minority Health Month. Led by the HHS Office of Minority Health, the 2016 event...

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

Leadership, innovation and commitment to quality and safety—all are needed to deliver exceptional...

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

Each year, the Illinois Hospital Association recognizes and celebrates the achievements of Illino...

This HPOE webinar, held in conjunction with the Institute for Diversity in Health Management, fea...

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

The Minority Faculty Development Awards program at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cl...

This HPOE webinar, held with the Institute for Diversity, highlights Henry Ford Health System, wh...

The May 2014 edition of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved highlights lingui...

Rooftop gardens are flourishing atop more and more hospitals. On unused roof space at Castle Medi...

This viewpoint article examines the barriers to improving health outcomes, eliminating disparitie...

Four generations are working side by side in hospitals and care systems today. Atlantic Health Sy...

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

Reducing health care disparities is a growing national priority and state hospital associations a...

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

Patients may be Christian, Jew, Muslim or of any other religious expression—at Lutheran Medical C...

The YWCA of Greater Milwaukee created a diversity training program focused on race and racism, in...

According to the Pew research center,  74 percent of all adults in the United States use the Inte...

Kaiser Permanente, as an integrated health care delivery system, has made significant progress to...

This case study explores the process of accessing health care from the perspective of the immigra...

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

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

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

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

During this webinar, hear how AnMed Health is applying the principles of REaL (race, ethnicity an...

This web seminar highlighted improvements in staff training and building the culturally competent...

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

My goal in this article is to use the laws of physics to help readers think in new ways about sha...

Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

Representatives from Catholic Health Initiatives in Denver, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in...

The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions designed to encourage greater coordination an...

In a recent study, the non-profit Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. ranks 16th out of 16 nati...

The guide is a resource for those interested or already engaged in quality improvement initiative...