Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The disease management process at Bassett Medical Center was positively impacted after the hospit...

This week, June 4-10, 2017, the AHA's Association for Community Health Improvement is celebrating...

This infographic provides a summary of the Association for Community Health Improvement’s Communi...

Increasingly, hospitals and health systems are forming partnerships to attain the new and demandi...

Concussions are a growing problem for young athletes. The hospital’s overall goal is to educate a...

This HPOE guide, developed by Kaufman Hall, provides key considerations in partnering for populat...

As nonprofit hospitals in the U.S. complete a community health needs assessments (CHNA) process, ...

Across the United States, nonprofit hospitals are conducting community health needs assessments, ...

Four years ago this hospital had no clinical leadership development program. Physician leaders wi...

Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Physician’s Organization implem...

The Integrated Care Management Program is a care manager collaborative created to ensure a smooth...

To meet a high demand for Chinese interpreters, the Tufts Medical Center Interpreter Services wor...

Hospitals and health care systems are striving to achieve the Triple Aim—improving the patient ex...

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals that demonstrate progress in achieving ...

CDMHC’s innovative programs divert hundreds of patients from the hospitals and emergency departme...

It is certain that health status is profoundly influenced by the places in which people live, wor...

Two health care systems and more than 20 community organizations are improving the health and wel...

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

After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...

HPOE and Leavitt Partners worked in collaboration to detail how accountable care organizations (A...

In addition to identifying priority health needs and aligning partners and resources to address c...

Working with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this infographic summarizes the findings of a re...

The Human Services Alliance of Beaufort County is one of the oldest coalitions for health improve...

In 2006 the Board of Trustees of Greenville Health System (GHS) committed to develop a workforce ...

Truven Health Analytics discusses key areas of focus for hospitals and care systems that want to ...

Together with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, HRET shared the results of a survey that stu...

Health care organizations are in varying stages of clinical and financial integration as they pur...

Preventing hospital-acquired infections, reducing surgical complications and reducing readmission...

This article discusses opportunities for health care providers to leverage Affordable Care Act re...

As health care leaders implement diverse improvement projects, from reducing hospital-acquired in...

October 6 – 12 is Mental Health Awareness Week. According to estimates, in the United States each...

Newark Department of Child and Family Well-BeingNewark NJ The Problem In 2003, The Newark (N.J.)...

This toolkit provides a framework for creating interventions that promote the Healthy People 2020...

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

This article discusses how six organizations in Oakland, Calif., used a health impact assessment ...

No single organization can effectively address complex community health issues such as access to ...

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

Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, Jackson, Miss.– 633 beds– 3,000-plus employees In 1997, Miss...

Collective Impact is the commitment of a group of actors from different sectors to a common agend...

To help those with reading and language challenges, UVA Health System staff developed a curriculu...

Effective care transitions programs can do more than improve patient care: patients learn to mana...

The goal was to improve turnaround times of troponin and EKGs within the cardiac patient populati...

Webinars and presentations from the New England Health Impact Assessment Training Series in 2012.

St. John?s Institute for Cognitive Health and the University of Utah Center for Alzheimer?s Care,...

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

This second report in this series expands and explains all three strategies and focuses on patien...

This articles argues that now is the time to integrate public health and primary care in a way th...

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

The implementation of accountable care organizations, a new health care payment and delivery mode...

One of the most vital strategies in the current health care environment is physician-hospital ali...

Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...

Using key metrics, MaineHealth gauges its impact on population health The board's challenge--wha...

“End of life care,” “serious illness” or “advanced illness” are some of the terms used to categor...

The Health Disparities Cancer Collaborative implemented six components of the chronic care model ...

This toolkit presents Muskegon County's Community Health Needs Assessment  process and results, a...

The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...

The OSF cardiac service line implemented a STEMI Improvement project to identify obstacles that c...

This statistic may surprise you: Mental health conditions and mood disorders including depression...

This guide provides techniques, case studies and guiding principles from various fields of expert...

Achieving health care equity and eliminating health care disparities are a top goal of hospitals ...

Saving lives and promoting community health certainly are commendable undertakings. To fully real...

Wishard Health ServicesIndianapolis, IN293 Beds  The Problem Geriatric Resources for Assessment ...

Montefiore Medical CenterBronx, NY1,418 Beds The Problem Montefiore Medical Center is a large, a...

This article discusses the imperitive to invest in community development as a means to improve po...

This article discusses the socioeconomic factors necessary for health in a community. The author ...

This report discusses the necessity of health information technology to effectively and systemati...

The rate of "mortality amenable to health care" that is--deaths that are considered preventable w...

This article discusses the evidence base behind population health management and explores the fut...

As America's hospitals and health systems are transforming care, hospitals are facing challenges ...

The report provides a scientific base and practical guidance fo rengaging public health professio...

This report discusses the process of conducting a Health Impact Assessment and proposes a busines...

This compendium of guides, reports, and toolkits provides a wealth of actionable resources to hel...

A key ingredient for success under health care reform will be the ability to utilize health infor...

This guide communicates the idea that workforce and human resource practices can positively impac...

Infant mortality remains a major concern in Milwaukee. The "Baby Safe Sleep" program , which is f...