Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

The path to eliminating disparities in health care has a few roadblocks: limited resources and ac...

After more than a decade of war, many U.S. military service members have experienced an unprecede...

This HPOE presentation highlights the business imperative for equity of care.  As the health care...

Reducing health care disparities is a growing national priority and state hospital associations a...

Focusing on strategies to improve quality, address disparities and achieve equity will be essenti...

Focusing on strategies to improve quality and achieve health care equity is a growing national pr...

Patients are becoming empowered. As health care consumers, they are reviewing publicly available ...

After a decade of war and an unprecedented number of combat deployments, our service members, vet...

This guide includes two sections that address collection and use of patient race, ethnicity and l...

A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...

Providing the very best care—the goal of all hospitals and care givers—must include an understand...

Patients may be Christian, Jew, Muslim or of any other religious expression—at Lutheran Medical C...

April is National Minority Health Month. Launched in April 2001 by the National Minority Health F...

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

Greenville Health SystemGreenville, South Carolina786 Beds The Problem The diversity of the lead...

The University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health and its Center for Health Litera...

The University of Michigan Health System used lean management and the plan-do-check-act cycle to ...

The YWCA of Greater Milwaukee created a diversity training program focused on race and racism, in...

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

The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Texas Health Institute developed a fr...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Geriatric Education Center  provides geriatric education ...

This case study explains Barnes-Jewish Hospital's approach to training it  4,100 team members thr...

This study of Spanish-speaking rural Latinos with diabetes finds that Spanish fluency is independ...

In a society as culturally diverse as the United States, especially in New York City,  members of...

In 2005, the University of Washington School of Medicine was awarded a grant from the National In...

This case study describes an evidence-based residency program that applies to an international au...

The use of cross-cultural diversity forum isexamined. The forums use technology and tools to brin...

According to the Pew research center,  74 percent of all adults in the United States use the Inte...

Since 2011, a series of narrated video slideshow presentations has been under development at  Har...

The Tool for Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments program seeks to enable raising com...

The ADA committee at the Kaiser Woodland Hills facility was started in 2010 in an effort to compl...

This case study looks at he Joint Commission's recommendation related to culturally and linguisti...

Little is known about the unique health needs and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans...

The University of Connecticut's community-based education program collaborated with community par...

Kaiser Permanente, as an integrated health care delivery system, has made significant progress to...

n 2008, Barnes-Jewish Hospital center for diversity and cultural competence developed an 18-hourc...

Project Perlas is a community-based participatory research project addressing disparities in mamm...

Today health disparities remain a constant challenge for immigrants, refugees and displaced popul...

This case study explores the process of accessing health care from the perspective of the immigra...

Many immigrant parents rely on their children to help them communicate as ad hoc interpreters in ...

There is often a lack of coordination among the various health and social systems that provide in...

Approximately 24 million people--8.5 percent of the U.S. population--are defined as having Limite...

Examples of and the rationale for strategies used to foster critical consciousness in the work of...

As the United States becomes increasingly diverse and as individuals choose to be more acculturat...

A team was created to ensure that all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, language, disabilit...

A commitment to diversity came first. That was followed by specific action projects to increase d...