Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Never underestimate the power of data. Hannibal (Mo.) Regional Hospital focused on collecting and...

Pinnacle Health System Harrisburg, PA599 Beds The Problem Health systems are no longer simply as...

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...

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

Focusing on strategies to improve quality, address disparities and achieve equity will be essenti...

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

At North Shore-LIJ Health System, teamwork is everywhere. This New York health system uses TeamST...

Zero is an important number at Broward Health North. The 409-bed community hospital in Deerfield ...

Research shows that when patients are engaged in their health care, it can lead to measurable imp...

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

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...

Providing quality care for patients with limited English proficiency can be challenging, even for...

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

Here's a disheartening statistic from the National Cancer Institute: in the United States, white ...

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

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

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

Think of all the instruments, equipment and furniture in a hospital operating room. Any of these ...

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

More than 64 million surgeries are performed annually in the United States. Preventing surgical s...

The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quali...

Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...

The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...

The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...

In December 2009, the medical center embarked on a little known and practiced procedure in the Un...

Greenville Health SystemGreenville, South Carolina786 Beds The Problem The diversity of the lead...

In 2009, the leadership team of this hospital empowered its multidisciplinary critical care commi...

The treatment of asthma requires cultural and linguistic sensitivity. Ideal treatment options req...

Disparities in care were noted for diabetes, cardio vascular disease and cancer screeening for Hm...

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

The University of Michigan Health System used lean management and the plan-do-check-act cycle to ...

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

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

A collaborative effort among Harborview Medical Center, two massage schools, the Southeast Seattl...

The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Texas Health Institute developed a fr...

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

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

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

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

This study of Spanish-speaking rural Latinos with diabetes finds that Spanish fluency is independ...

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

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

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

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

Good patient/provider communication correlates with greater patient satisfaction, increased patie...

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

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

The use of cross-cultural diversity forum isexamined. The forums use technology and tools to brin...

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

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

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

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

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

Little is known about the unique health needs and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans...

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

The University of Connecticut's community-based education program collaborated with community par...

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

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

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

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

African American older adults are at greater risk of depression due to the higher incidence of ch...

Today health disparities remain a constant challenge for immigrants, refugees and displaced popul...

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

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

There is often a lack of coordination among the various health and social systems that provide in...

Approximately 24 million people--8.5 percent of the U.S. population--are defined as having Limite...

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

Transforming organizations, such as academic health centers or teaching hospitals, toward creatin...

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

Examples of and the rationale for strategies used to foster critical consciousness in the work of...

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

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