Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

“Transportation and the Role of Hospitals” is part of a series of guides and resources released b...

Schuyler Hospital’s Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Schuyler initiative offers various opport...

This compendium features detailed descriptions of hospital-community partnerships from across the...

It has become widely known that effective hospital-community partnerships are necessary in buildi...

“Housing and the Role of Hospitals” is the second guide released by the AHA, HRET and ACHI as par...

Advancing population health involves fostering effective and sustainable hospital-community partn...

As part of our work to Advance Health in America, the AHA, HRET and ACHI are launching a series o...

Though health care professionals at hospitals work tirelessly to help patients get and stay healt...

The American Hospital Association and the Health Research & Educational Trust are working to supp...

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

As we close out National Mental Health Awareness month, I’d like to highlight a noteworthy effort...

One out of five Americans, or over 40 million people, struggle with behavioral health each day. I...

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

This HPOE and American Hospital Association Section for Maternal and Child Health webinar is abou...

Nurses have always been on the front lines at hospitals providing quality, compassionate care for...

As part of the American Hospital Association’s Hospital Against Violence initiative, Hospitals in...

Partnering—not competing—with other health organizations is how many hospitals are working to imp...

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

The next generation of community health will serve as the foundation for total population health....

The 2017 chair files will begin highlighting efforts that are improving community health beyond t...

The Association for Healthcare Volunteer Resource Professionals created a guide to help hospitals...

Like many hospitals, SBH Health System uses the computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system. ...

Trust is among the most important currencies we have as health care leaders. And during these tim...

In response to a rapidly transforming health care environment, hospitals and health systems acros...

BackgroundHenry Ford Health System is a not-for-profit corporation composed of hospitals, medical...

BackgroundMedStar Health is a not-for-profit health system in the Maryland and Washington, D.C., ...

BackgroundMultiCare Health System is a not-for-profit health care organization based in Tacoma, W...

BackgroundOchsner Health System in southeast Louisiana manages 13 hospitals and more than 40 heal...

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

Hospitals and health systems are working hard to ensure that every person in every community rece...

Improving the health of communities where people live, work and play is more important than ever....

When hospitals engage community members and patients in the community health assessment process, ...

To improve community health, Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics (MGH&FC) in Shelton, Wash...

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

More and more hospitals are offering a wide variety of health and wellness programs and benefits ...

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

This joint HPOE and Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital webinar discus...

Focusing on community needs using a data-driven approach and local resources has improved care fo...

Here’s an excellent opportunity for health care executives to study and discuss pressing health c...

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

In 2016, Cleveland Clinic was honored by the American Hospital Association (AHA) with its Equity ...

Hospitals can create a culture of health in their own organization and in the community by develo...

A health care collaboration in rural Missouri is expanding patient access to primary and behavior...

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...

Using the Triple Aim framework, hospitals and health systems can effectively address behavioral h...

This project addresses the health care system's strategic initiative to ensure interdisciplinary ...

This health system's employee influenza vaccination policy compliance rate was less than 70 perce...

The Community Health Network (CHN) targets the socioeconomic determinants of health that are not ...

Today, about one out of three children and adolescents ages 2-19 in the United States is overweig...

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

Inappropriate stress ulcer prophylaxis is a serious problem across the health care continuum. Lit...

As a health organization that serves communities disproportionately affected by asthma, Sinai Hea...

The utilization review staff at HSHS St. Elizabeth's Hospital examines medical records for inpati...

Developing and sustaining hospital-community partnerships to address community health needs are c...

Effective and sustainable hospital-community partnerships are critical to building a Culture of H...

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

Community health needs assessments—CHNAs—are becoming a driver of community collaborations and a ...

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

Hospitals and communities are increasingly recognizing the importance of effective partnerships w...

For its excellent work addressing community health needs, Massachusetts General Hospital in Bosto...

Hospitals and health systems continually push to improve the health of their communities. Massach...

Demand for Brockton Neighborhood Health Center (BNHC) accelerated after it started in 1994 as a m...

Codman Square Health Center in downtown Dorchester, MA exemplifies how a health center can build ...

North Country HealthCare is a federally qualified health center serving fourteen communities in n...

Claremont Village is a New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) public housing development in the ...

A powerful tool for hospitals to address priority health needs of their patient population and th...

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

This AHA report provides a review of the current state for the behavioral health workforce, outli...

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

An intervention to prevent childhood obesity has blossomed into a communitywide effort led by a l...

Rates of inpatient medication errors range from 45 to 76 percent, with most errors occurring on-a...

The Institute for Diversity in Health Management in collaboration with the AHA's Hospitals in Pur...

Funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Serv...

Based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Gundersen Health System is an integrated tertiary referral center ...