Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This guide is a synopsis of a conversation held at the Association for Healthcare Resource & Mate...

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

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

Results from an Association for Community Health Improvement and American Hospital Association Su...

The path to eliminating disparities in health care has a few roadblocks: limited resources and ac...

Each year, the AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals and health systems that have...

The community guide is a resource to help hospitals and community organizations choose programs t...

After more than a decade of war, many U.S. military service members have experienced an unprecede...

This HPOE presentation highlights the business imperative for equity of care.  As the health care...

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

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

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

Each year, the AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals and health systems that have...

This article discusses the importance of a holistic approach to community development in order to...

Focusing on strategies to improve quality and achieve health care equity is a growing national pr...

Lean transformation means improved patient care, employee satisfaction and reduced costs as MSHA ...

This report highlights nearly 80 evidence-based disease and injury prevention programs. These pro...

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

Patients are becoming empowered. As health care consumers, they are reviewing publicly available ...

Learn from the best of the best. The 2013 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize® recipients will s...

After a decade of war and an unprecedented number of combat deployments, our service members, vet...

Goal-Save lives, reduce suffering and lower costs related to complications of surgery. Developed...

This report highlights five years of quality improvement among Florida hospitals. It highlights "...

Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Network GoalsReduce patient harm by 40 percent and ...

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

Southeastern Health, Lumberton, N.C. 452 beds 16,000 impatient admissions 76,000 emergency d...

St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Conn. 396 licensed beds Full-service teaching hospi...

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare (Glendale, Wis.) 11 hospitals, 70 clinic sites, three long-term ...

Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...

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

This guide includes two sections that address collection and use of patient race, ethnicity and l...

This annual survey of employers provides a detailed look at trends in employer-sponsored health c...

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

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

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

Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...

Million Hearts is a national initiative to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2017. I...

In July 2013, the AHA released another collection of action-oriented resources that can help hosp...

This articles explores how HealthPartners decided to target nonclinical determinants of populatio...

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality prize honors hospitals that have a committed in a systemic man...

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

Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, the flagship publication of the AHA, has put together a web...

The case study addresses a hospital-based tobacco cessation initiative that serves patients regar...

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

Throughout the past decade, there has been a substantial increase in the national frequency of po...

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

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

To become an effective population health manager, a hospital must create effective partnerships. ...

June 2–8 is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health Improvement s...

June 2–8 is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health Improvement s...

Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health CenterWindsor, VT60 Beds The Problem Mt. Ascutney Hospital and ...

Yuma District HospitalYuma, CO12 Beds The Problem Yuma District Hospital, located in Yuma, Color...

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

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

In 2008, Ellis Hospital launched a medical home at its Ellis Health Center campus. This initiativ...

Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and Northern Counties Health Care, Inc.,  have had a long-...

Cheyenne Regional Medical Center and Cheyenne Health and Wellness Center partner on several initi...

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

Young children who missed more than half of recommended well-child visits had up to twice the ris...

Chambers County was designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration as one of the ...

Concord (N.H.) Hospital • 230-bed regional medical center • 17,194 admissions • 295 medical staff...

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

Telepsychiatry is playing a pivotal role in providing timely care to hospitalized mental health p...

This webinar examined best practices and lessons from the field on health care transformation ini...

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

There were between 462,000 and 636,000 CLABSIs in nonneonatal critical care patients in the Unite...

Ensuring the highest quality for patient care means continuously reviewing processes and outcomes...

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

April is National Minority Health Month. Launched in April 2001 by the National Minority Health F...

An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

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

Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...

 HPOE is pleased to highlight case studies from the Illinois Hospital Association’s Institute f...

This webinar from Health Resources in Action discusses the benefits of hospital-community collabo...

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