Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Most hospitals collect race, ethnicity and language data, but a smaller percentage use the data i...

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...

This handy visual aid illustrates the main points from "2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Benchma...

Lean Six Sigma tools were used to reduce pressure ulcers at Memorial Health System, Springfield, ...

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...

Pekin (Ill.) Hospital used plan-do-study-act with evidence-based practice research, guidelines re...

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

This infographic provides a sample of the findings from the 2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Ben...

The nation’s health care delivery system is in the midst of a transition from a fee-for-service a...

Many Medicare patients with life-limiting illnesses had no documented advanced directive while in...

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

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

This updated chartpack offers a snapshot of some common strategies used to improve the quality of...

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

Continuing on the second-curve series, HPOE highlights the Second Curve of Population Health info...

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

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

Improving care after discharge translates to decreased readmissions. Marshall Medical Center, a 1...

Population health is receiving increased attention for its role in improving health care, specifi...

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

This viewpoint article examines the barriers to improving health outcomes, eliminating disparitie...

The statistics are staggering: The number of Americans diagnosed with diabetes has risen from 1.5...

In 2005, Guernsey County in rural Ohio had the state’s second worst late-stage colon cancer rates...