Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Excellent patient-centered care is the goal of a program implemented by the team at McDonough Dis...

Read about how Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare developed a minority nusing program that identifies ...

Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...

Change can be uncomfortable. But no matter how sophisticated, hospitals and health care systems n...

Based in the Pennsylvania cities of Allentown, Bethlehem and Hazleton, Lehigh Valley Health Netwo...

Baystate Health, based in Springfield, Mass., has two formal mentorship programs available to its...

The University of Mississippi Medical Center created a Healthcare Disparities Council with 40 mem...

The Institute for Diversity in Health Management's Summer Enrichment Program matches and places m...

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize annually honors hospitals and health systems that contin...

Identifying solutions to reduce hospital-acquired conditions. Working to spread this knowledge to...

California's Central Valley is known for its abundant fruits and vegetables; however, many famili...

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize annually honors hospitals and health systems that contin...

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

This guide provides a framework for hospitals and care systems to stratify patient race, ethnicit...

Diversity has become a core value at U.S. hospitals. Meridian Health, a not-for-profit health car...

Making incremental changes and collaborating with area hospitals and community organizations have...

Hospital-based Strategies for Creating a Culture of Health provides background on the Robert Wood...

The foundation of all efforts to identify disparities, improve quality, achieve equity and delive...

Nearly 1,500 U.S. hospitals are working to eliminate patient harm and reduce hospital readmission...

Saint Anthony Health Center, Alton, Ill., took a hard look at data from its cancer program and fo...

Strengthening - Treatment - Outcomes - Patients Elmhurst Hospital Center participated in develop...

The answer is HPOE.org. The question: Where do hospital and care system leaders find resources an...

Trustees, senior leaders and quality chairs play a pivotal role as their hospitals and health car...

With four hospitals and more than 120 employed medical providers, St. Charles Health System is a ...

“Once a patient believes that you [the provider] understand them, we think the healing begins,” s...

Although rare and difficult to study, wrong-site surgery is a serious risk recognized by health c...

With the rise in higher-deductible health plans and coinsurance, Americans are paying an increasi...

Engaging patients and families in health care can help hospitals achieve the Triple Aim: better c...

Managing population health, financial planning for value-based care and payment, and leading impr...

During 2011, the hospital joined the IHA Project Re-Engineering Discharge (RED) collaborative to ...

Improving patient safety, leading multiple improvement efforts and moving to value-based care: Th...

Improving population health is a must-do strategy in transforming health care delivery. Yale New ...

This issue brief continues the program’s examination of state-level community benefit oversight b...

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

As our nation's population becomes more diverse, health care organizations are continuously prese...

A gap analysis was conducted. Key themes emerged in this analysis such as inadequate preparation ...

Using a Community Needs Assessment, Morris Hospital, which serves 18 rural communities, identifie...

Crossroad Health Center is a federally qualified health center and level 3 patient-centered medic...

All practices participating in Better Health Greater Cleveland collect and submit data on patient...

After identifying inequities with affordable access to primary care services and an uncoordinated...

Today’s hospital and care system leaders are addressing challenges while maximizing opportunities...

Moving from a volume-based payment model to a value-based payment model requires a new set of man...

At hospitals, health care systems and state, regional and metropolitan hospital associations acro...

The health care industry is shifting from volume- to value-based payment and care delivery models...

This article found that county characteristics are independently associated with higher hospital ...

Hospitals and health care systems are faced with unprecedented challenges and opportunities as th...

As of March 2014, progress generally has been positive toward achieving the HP2020 targets for th...

The winds of change in health care are swirling around us: shifting patient and workforce demogra...

This infographic shows what 40-year-old Americans would pay for a second-lowest-cost silver excha...

This case study describes a pilot program to find out the effect that integrative behavioral heal...

One in four Americans experiences a behavioral health illness or substance abuse disorder each ye...

This Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence guide explains the value of integrating physical and beha...

Each year, the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement takes an in-depth look at a single topic ...

Redefine. Partner. Integrate. Experiment. Specialize. Many hospitals and care systems are embarki...

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

The 2014 AHA Chair-elect Jonathan  Perlin, MD, co-authored this paper and companion financial mod...

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