Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Maimonides Medical Center implemented four evidence-based practices using the Plan, Do, Study, Ac...

This HPOE and the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) webinar focuses on how two hea...

Here’s an excellent opportunity for health care executives to study and discuss pressing health c...

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

This AHA report provides a review of the current state for the behavioral health workforce, outli...

Over the past 20 years, nursing homes have been undertaking a cultural transition to look and fee...

This HPOE webinar takes an in-depth look into how the Massachusetts Hospital Association develope...

St. Joseph Health, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a 208-bed hospital in Napa, California, is...

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

The Baystate Health Breast and Wellness Center, created in 2013, is a combination of two premier ...

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

Through this initiative, Highland Healthcare Associates IPA seeks to improve the physician's expe...

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

Boston Children’s Hospital and its associated pediatric primary care physicians organization coll...

The Care Tracker program at Signature Healthcare collates data from multiple sources, including b...

Diagnostic care for patients referred within the institution for suspicious lung lesions was vari...

Injectable extended-release formulation of naltrexone marketed as Vivitrol is a recent significan...

Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...

The School Based Care Coordination Program supports at-risk youth and families in two school dist...

CDC data shows that over 70 percent of patients with pre-diabetes will develop type 2 diabetes du...

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

With the national focus on decreasing hospital-acquired infections, Massachusetts General Hospita...

At Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, the pediatric intensive care unit has been implem...

Dedicated to eliminating catheter-associated urinary tract infections, North Shore Medical Center...

Approximately 28 percent of the hospital's patients with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) are readm...

Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) account for 30-40 percent of the organizati...

T4P/BREATHE is an inter-professional project created in response to improving patient outcomes an...

The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...

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

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

More and more hospitals and health systems are leading community collaborations to create positiv...

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

Since 2007, The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Psychiatry Residency program has help...

CDMHC’s innovative programs divert hundreds of patients from the hospitals and emergency departme...

The Heathcare Association of New York State announced its 2015 Community Health Improvement award...

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...

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

The Muskegon Community Health Project, in partnership with Mercy Health Partners, is an inclusive...

Ascension Health created a business unit called Transformational Development. It is charged with ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs home-based primary care  began in 1972.  Home-based primary ca...

Matching patients with primary care physicians was top priority of this project improvement by th...

Matching patients with primary care physicians was top priority of this project improvement by th...

OSF Healthcare, Peoria, Ill., wanted to improve the care of patients experiencing an ST elevation...

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

The Stars of the Field is H&HN's second annual AHA awards issue. Hospitals that are making tremen...

This article highlights the success of a pilot project between Park Nicollet hospital, St. Louis ...

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

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

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

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

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

If you build a community of care, people will come. It happened when Middlesex Hospital, in Middl...

Learn from the best of the best. The 2013 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize® recipients will s...

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

There is a growing need to improve health care, especially at the interface between general medic...

Being accessible only by airplane or boat adds to the scenic character of Wrangell, Alaska (popul...

Chambers County was designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration as one of the ...

Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, Jackson, Miss.– 633 beds– 3,000-plus employees In 1997, Miss...

The chair files highlight stories of hospitals and health systems that are implementing innovativ...

 HPOE is pleased to highlight case studies from the Illinois Hospital Association’s Institute f...

Use this tool to assess whether your health-related organization or system, or coalition of organ...

This second report in this series expands and explains all three strategies and focuses on patien...

The move from volume- to value-based care has profound implications for those who design, build a...

Now, more than ever, hospitals and health system CEOs cannot sit on their hands as new care deliv...

Bernard J. Tyson, a Kaiser Permanente employee and leader for 28 years and its chief operating of...

The mobile app from HPOE will ensure you receive up-to-date alerts when new HPOE guides are relea...

For the last century, the major causes of disease and death among Americans have changed, shiftin...

One of the most vital strategies in the current health care environment is physician-hospital ali...

In an Oct. 17 webinar presented by Becker's Hospital Review, Scott Becker, a partner at McGuireWo...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...

America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, say...

Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...