Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Transportation and the Role of Hospitals This AHA webinar on “Transportation and the Role of Hos...

This AHA  webinar was on the latest resource in our social determinants of health series, “Housin...

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...

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

The American Hospital Association hosted a webinar that is an extension of the “Social Determinan...

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

This weekend kicks off a not-to-be-missed event for hospital and health system leaders: the AHA’s...

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

March 12-18, 2017, is Patient Safety Awareness Week, led by the National Patient Safety Foundatio...

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

BackgroundIllinois Valley Community Hospital is a 49-bed, not-for-profit hospital located in Peru...

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

Hospitals are helping students with disabilities transition from school to the workplace. Mat-Su ...

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

Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...

The facility partnered with local emergency medical services (EMS) providers to improve early rec...

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

Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...

The goal was to reduce anesthesia's postoperative evaluation errors to less than 10 percent of al...

The organization sought to create a root cause analysis (RCA) structure that endowed greater focu...

Troponin is a cardiac marker for acute myocardial infarction, making this lab test a key part of ...

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

Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...

A history as a resource-challenged urban safety net hospital with a high-risk population, a lack ...

In 2013, the facility’s hospital-onset (HO) infection rate for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) ha...

Although episiotomy was once considered a routine part of childbirth, in recent years, there has ...

The prevention of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs) is a major focus for health care orga...

Overutilizing blood transfusions adds significant costs and can increase patient length of stay a...

Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...

Carthage Area Hospital is improving patient and employee experiences by providing them with fresh...

A health system in rural Minnesota has helped develop an innovative model to prevent prescription...

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

As one of only two hospitals in Yuma County, Yuma District Hospital and Clinic (YDHC) can ascerta...

Creating a quieter hospital environment can help the healing process and improve the patient expe...

When outpatients at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, were frequently getting lost on their way to app...

Hospitals and faith organizations are collaborating to improve health care outcomes and organize ...

Norwood Hospital is a full-service, 263-bed community hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts. In 2013...

Children’s Hospital Colorado launched a fun, hospital-wide hand hygiene challenge called “Germ Cr...

The premise of this project was that failure to maintain a patient's respect and dignity represen...

Nighttime or off-shift intubations are a low-frequency, high-risk procedure in a community hospit...

Hallmark Health System, Inc., is participating in the Community-based Care Transitions Program (C...

This health care system's unique post-acute care (PAC) continuum of Inpatient Rehabilitation Faci...

A collaborative network of hospitals and community organizations is improving behavioral health c...

This webinar will focus on two hospital-interfaith collaborations, one in Memphis that has been i...

Hospitals strive to achieve the Triple Aim. This collection of case studies features three exampl...

  Violence is a serious safety issue for many communities and hospitals across the United States...

Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...

  For more than two decades, health services researchers have been using statewide hospital disc...

More than 90 percent of U.S. hospitals are committed to population health. This is according to a...

Patient and family engagement is associated with fewer adverse events, lower health care costs, d...

To support hospitals embarking on their population health journey, the Health Research & Educatio...

Massachusetts General Hospital's (MGH) 2012 community health needs assessment, in which communiti...

Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

HPOE has teamed up with the Illinois Hospital Association to highlight its yearly quality awards....

The feeling of being truly cared for leaves a lasting impression and aids in the healing process....

When River Hospital, Alexandria Bay, N.Y., identified an unmet mental health need for active duty...

Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...

The AHA and the American Medical Association collaborated on this paper to present both physician...

To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...

Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...

The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

Protecting workers from exposure to all types of respiratory hazards is an important issue for ho...

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

This article highlights what hospitals are doing to improve access to behavioral health services....

This toolkit from OSHA is availalbe to the public and contains references, educational resources ...

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

The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...

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

The country’s highest presidential honor for performance excellence through innovation, improveme...

When hospitals care for victims of violence, it provides a window of opportunity to interrupt the...

Hospitals and care systems are uniquely positioned to play an integral role preventing violence i...

This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, ...