Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

“Transportation and the Role of Hospitals” is part of a series of guides and resources released b...

This compendium features detailed descriptions of hospital-community partnerships from across the...

“Housing and the Role of Hospitals” is the second guide released by the AHA, HRET and ACHI as par...

Advancing population health involves fostering effective and sustainable hospital-community partn...

As part of our work to Advance Health in America, the AHA, HRET and ACHI are launching a series o...

The American Hospital Association and the Health Research & Educational Trust are working to supp...

The next generation of community health will serve as the foundation for total population health....

The Association for Healthcare Volunteer Resource Professionals created a guide to help hospitals...

In response to a rapidly transforming health care environment, hospitals and health systems acros...

Hospitals can create a culture of health in their own organization and in the community by develo...

Effective and sustainable hospital-community partnerships are critical to building a Culture of H...

This HPOE guide, developed by Kaufman Hall, provides key considerations in partnering for populat...

As nonprofit hospitals in the U.S. complete a community health needs assessments (CHNA) process, ...

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...

This HPOE guide, a collaboration with the American Society for Healthcare Engineering, explores w...

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

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

To support hospitals embarking on their population health journey, the Health Research & Educatio...

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

The AHA and the American Medical Association collaborated on this paper to present both physician...

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

Hospital-based Strategies for Creating a Culture of Health provides background on the Robert Wood...

Although rare and difficult to study, wrong-site surgery is a serious risk recognized by health c...

Moving from a volume-based payment model to a value-based payment model requires a new set of man...

This guide builds upon prior American Hospital Association reports that outline a road map for ho...

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

Generational differences—one factor of diversity—are changing workforce dynamics. Traditionalists...

Results from an Association for Community Health Improvement and American Hospital Association Su...

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

This annual survey of employers provides a detailed look at trends in employer-sponsored health c...

Cultural competency in health care describes the ability of systems to provide care to patients w...

To become an effective population health manager, a hospital must create effective partnerships. ...

"Metrics for the Second Curve of Health Care" expands on four strategies originally identified in...

The AHA’s framework for health reform, Health for Life, embraces the need to engage patients and ...

In 2012 the AHA Committee on Research focused on actively engaging health care users to improve o...

Palliative care specializes in taking care of patients with serious illness and focuses on provid...

A monograph from the Association of American Medical Colleges, in partnership with the Institute ...

PLF hosted a session on achieving team-based health care delivery. David Nash, MD, founding dean ...

To meet patient needs in the current market, hospitals have traditionally focused their efforts o...

As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

This guide describes how HCAHPS data should be used in context with other information about organ...

Achieving health care equity and eliminating health care disparities are a top goal of hospitals ...

Racial and socioeconomic inequity persists in health care quality. An exploratory interview with ...

Why Is Focusing On Preventable Mortality Important?Hospital leaders work hard every day to provid...

 The purpose of this guide is to provide hospitals with a resource to help reduce inappropriate v...

The report provides: Background on health and wellness programs and how they are incentivized ...

This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

A key ingredient for success under health care reform will be the ability to utilize health infor...

Due to the size and breadth of their organizations, multi-hospital health system leaders have a s...

The guide is designed to serve as a quick, simple resource by outlining four steps: Examine yo...

The content of this best-practices guide, and the process by which it was assembled, are emblemat...