Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Excellent patient-centered care is the goal of a program implemented by the team at McDonough Dis...

Read about how Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare developed a minority nusing program that identifies ...

Read about the many programs that Novant Health has developed around leadership diversity includi...

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

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

Baystate Health, based in Springfield, Mass., has two formal mentorship programs available to its...

For nearly 20 years, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Jersey has partnered with the...

The Minority Faculty Development Awards program at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cl...

The University of Mississippi Medical Center created a Healthcare Disparities Council with 40 mem...

Greenville Health System in South Carolina overhauled its leadership search and selection process...

Recognizing the need for diversity management, Sparrow Heatlh System in Lansing, Mich., hired a d...

The Institute for Diversity in Health Management's Summer Enrichment Program matches and places m...

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...

Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, worked to create a highly reliable system for follow up ...

Norwegian American Hospital, Chicago, improved both influenza and pneumococcal vaccination rates ...

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

Albany Medical Center developed the Child Advocacy Resident Education program that aims to improv...

Montefiore Medical Center's School Health Program is the largest and most comprehensive school-ba...

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

The growing undergraduate public health movement in the nation is exciting; yet, concerns linger ...

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

African immigrants and refugees represent four percent of the total population in the United Stat...

In 2013, the Connecticut Multicultural State Partnership, a non-profit health advocacy group, rec...

Increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of the nation's health professions workforce has many ...

In a this video, leaders from CHRISTUS Health provide an overview of the Equity of Care initiativ...

The National Center for Health Care Leadership's diversity leadership demonstration project is th...

For six months, Brandywine Hospital has not had one central line-associated bloodstream infection...

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

Presence St. Mary’s Hospital, Kankakee, Ill., improved readmission rates for heart failure patien...

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...

Strengthening - Treatment - Outcomes - Patients Elmhurst Hospital Center participated in develop...

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

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

Meridian Health is a leading not-for-profit health care organization in New Jersey, comprised of ...

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

The hospital applied for the Joint Commission certification as a Primary Stroke Center. In order...

Some patients have difficulty effectively managing their medications because they don't fully und...

Care for people with multiple chronic health conditions is often fragmented, resulting in increas...

Only 20 percent  of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients at the hospital were properly ...

Only 20 percent  of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients at the hospital were properly ...

The patient experience as measured by patient satisfaction scores is an organizational goal. In t...

During 2011, the hospital joined the IHA Project Re-Engineering Discharge (RED) collaborative to ...

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

Since 2010, the academic medical center has been supporting a program to reduce 30-day all cause ...

Using a Community Needs Assessment, Morris Hospital, which serves 18 rural communities, identifie...

Three patient navigators are used to advocate on behalf of women with abnormal breast findings on...

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

The Greater Detroit Area Health Council is taking an innovative approach to reducing disparities ...

After identifying inequities with affordable access to primary care services and an uncoordinated...

This case study describes a pilot program to find out the effect that integrative behavioral heal...

St. Joseph Regional Health Center went on a Lean journey to not only save money, but improve the ...

Founded in 1989, the Metro Community Provider Network is a nonprofit organization in the Denver M...

Established in 2007, Colorado Total Smiles is a nonprofit located in the Denver Metro area that p...