Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This article highlights what hospitals are doing to improve access to behavioral health services....

This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, ...

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

This article discusses opportunities for health care providers to leverage Affordable Care Act re...

This article discusses the importance of a holistic approach to community development in order to...

Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, the flagship publication of the AHA, has put together a web...

Written by HRET staff member Cynthia Hedges Greising and AHA-NPSF Comprehensive Patient Safety Fe...

Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders were at a higher risk of po...

 For baby boomers, the peak interest in health issues comes at about age 51, with a second peak c...

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

At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients the...

Joint ventures between investor-owned and nonprofit health care organizations are not new; in fac...

This article explores eight of the most challenging and interesting issues that hospital leaders ...

When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...

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

The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...

Using key metrics, MaineHealth gauges its impact on population health The board's challenge--wha...

Rob Olson, MD, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Bellingham, Wash., sold his solo practice when he ...

A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...

Quality is the first word that comes to mind when we talk about the American Hospital Association...

Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...

This paper explores the current landscape of patient-centered medical home services for patients ...

This decision-maker brief offers programmatic and policy changes that can help practices, especia...

This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.

This article assesses the potential impact of P4P on national hospital disparities using a two-me...

Saving lives and promoting community health certainly are commendable undertakings. To fully real...

This commentary presents a model developed to explore how health information technology affects c...

This article discusses the imperitive to invest in community development as a means to improve po...

This article discusses the socioeconomic factors necessary for health in a community. The author ...

The closed-door discussion focused on the best practices of organizations that have won or were f...

Hospital IT departments are facing what one executive calls a "tsunami of activities, expectation...

While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behavi...

Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient ca...

Steve Riney, Chief Information Officer at Methodist Medical Center of Illinois in Peoria, talks t...

The current understanding of what drives readmission focuses on the quality of the inpatient disc...

Ascension Health has some lofty goals: cut serious safety events by 40 percent by 2014. This come...

This brief, based on site visits from Nov. 2009 through March 2010, highlights care coordination ...

The latest Alliance issue brief reports on how collaboratives are working at the local level to i...