Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The disease management process at Bassett Medical Center was positively impacted after the hospit...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Patient and system tracers have been conducted at this institution since 2008. Prior to this proj...

A house wide effort was lead this year to teach and embed continuous improvement methodology and ...

Tufts Medical Center made a decision to create its own quality improvement training for its workf...

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

The ICMP Program is a Care Manager collaborative created to ensure the transition of patient care...

At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a small group of challenging patients account for a disproportio...

Under the leadership of the Process Improvement (PI) Department, the organization has been drivin...

North Shore Medical Center is dedicated to safely transitioning all emergency department patients...

Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that diagnostic care for patients who were referred within the...

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

To meet a high demand for Chinese interpreters, the Tufts Medical Center Interpreter Services wor...

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...

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

Erie County Medical Center's "boots on the floor" initiative began by hiring five full-time patie...

Read about how patient and family engagement practices are related to patient experiences. This s...

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

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

The project catalyst noted inconsistencies in providing diagnosis-related, evidence-based interve...

Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...

After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...

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

The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...

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

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

Working with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this infographic summarizes the findings of a re...

The Human Services Alliance of Beaufort County is one of the oldest coalitions for health improve...

Truven Health Analytics discusses key areas of focus for hospitals and care systems that want to ...

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

Together with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, HRET shared the results of a survey that stu...

Health care organizations are in varying stages of clinical and financial integration as they pur...

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

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

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

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

This toolkit provides a framework for creating interventions that promote the Healthy People 2020...

In California, about 16 percent of the adult population, more than 4 million people, have mental ...

This resource gives hospital and health system leaders concrete, practical steps grounded on evid...

This article discusses how six organizations in Oakland, Calif., used a health impact assessment ...

No single organization can effectively address complex community health issues such as access to ...

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

Children diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities and behavior disorders need q...

Collective Impact is the commitment of a group of actors from different sectors to a common agend...

The treatment of asthma requires cultural and linguistic sensitivity. Ideal treatment options req...

To help those with reading and language challenges, UVA Health System staff developed a curriculu...

Effective care transitions programs can do more than improve patient care: patients learn to mana...

Webinars and presentations from the New England Health Impact Assessment Training Series in 2012.

St. John?s Institute for Cognitive Health and the University of Utah Center for Alzheimer?s Care,...

This report discusses strategies to help health care leaders prioritize three foundational elemen...

This articles argues that now is the time to integrate public health and primary care in a way th...

While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...

Efforts to improve U.S. health care must include payment reforms that encourage greater efficienc...

The implementation of accountable care organizations, a new health care payment and delivery mode...

When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...

Using key metrics, MaineHealth gauges its impact on population health The board's challenge--wha...

The Health Disparities Cancer Collaborative implemented six components of the chronic care model ...

This toolkit presents Muskegon County's Community Health Needs Assessment  process and results, a...

Health care professionals at Henry Ford Health System know how to connect with teenagers. About 1...

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in American men, after skin cancer. According to...

This statistic may surprise you: Mental health conditions and mood disorders including depression...

This paper examines successful approaches to delivering mental health treatment in primary care a...

This guide provides techniques, case studies and guiding principles from various fields of expert...

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...