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...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

  The patient experience is more important today than ever before, with payments tied to patie...

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...

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

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, ...

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...

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

The link between hunger, food insecurity and poor health has been clearly acknowledged as a serio...

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

This HPOE guide, a collaboration with the American Society for Healthcare Engineering, explores w...

State and regional hospital associations across the United States are recognizing hospitals and h...

The new HPOE  guide “Triple Aim Strategies to Improve Behavioral Health Care” describes strategie...

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

The health system's vision in 2014 was "to transform the delivery and financing of health care to...

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

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...

Sanpete Valley Hospital, a critical access hospital in Mount Pleasant, Utah, is leading behaviora...

The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) released the Nurse Executive Competencies: P...

To address disparities in health care outcomes, Main Line Health is proactively addressing socioe...

Leadership, innovation and commitment to quality and safety—all are needed to deliver exceptional...

The largest drivers of disease in populations are unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, unhealthy...

The Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina is an unprecedented volunteer collaboration of more t...

This case study presents the story of CareSouth Carolina and the Northeastern Rural Health Networ...

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...

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

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

Apps and iPads are tools of choice for improving the health of Pennsylvania schoolchildren. Lehig...

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

In 2008, the two hospital systems partnered with the city of Whittier, the YMCA of Greater Whitti...

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

Palmetto Health has pursued multiple initiatives and strategies to promote a healthy community an...