Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

April is National Minority Health Month, dedicated to raising awareness about health disparities ...

All future performance improvement projects will address health care disparities. That’s the comm...

Hospitals and health systems are intensifying their focus to ensure all patients receive high-qua...

By adopting a supplier diversity program, hospitals and health care systems can support minority-...

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

Cultural competency is critical to reducing health care disparities and improving access to high-...

This HPOE webinar highlights innovations for eliminating health care disparities and will feature...

The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

A new HPOE Guide “Increasing Supplier Diversity in Health Care” provides action steps and case st...

Diversity is becoming a key word in health care. Hospitals and health care systems are focusing o...

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

This toolkit is a user-friendly “how-to” guide to help accelerate the elimination of health care ...

Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...

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

Based in the Pennsylvania cities of Allentown, Bethlehem and Hazleton, Lehigh Valley Health Netwo...

California's Central Valley is known for its abundant fruits and vegetables; however, many famili...

The Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, a partner of the Brooklyn Health Disparities Center, ...

INTEGRIS Health is the largest Oklahoma-owned health care corporation. Its facilities cover the c...

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

“Once a patient believes that you [the provider] understand them, we think the healing begins,” s...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...

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

This web seminar highlighted improvements in staff training and building the culturally competent...

Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

This report utilizes Dartmouth Atlas data to show differences in resource utilization among the 2...

This toolkit provides a comprehensive approach to the collection of race, ethnicity and primary l...

A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

The guide is a resource for those interested or already engaged in quality improvement initiative...

Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitiviti...

Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...