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Hospitals and health systems recognized for excellence in health care equity are sharing their wo...
Community health initiatives that start with small successes can lead to bigger changes. St. Cath...
Hospitals are helping students with disabilities transition from school to the workplace. Mat-Su ...
A health care collaboration in rural Missouri is expanding patient access to primary and behavior...
“Every staff member counts” and “every patient counts.” With this mantra, AllianceHealth Pryor in...
An intervention to prevent childhood obesity has blossomed into a communitywide effort led by a l...
St. Joseph Health, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a 208-bed hospital in Napa, California, is...
Change can be uncomfortable. But no matter how sophisticated, hospitals and health care systems n...
Engaging patients and families in health care can help hospitals achieve the Triple Aim: better c...
Whether cheering for soccer, tennis, baseball, softball or another sport, fans no doubt have witn...
Hospitals and health care systems can support their missions and also many additional benefits by...
Every October pink appears on everything from ribbons to football helmets and even illuminates th...
Teamwork between infection control and environmental services professionals at Hunterdon Medical ...
October 6 – 12 is Mental Health Awareness Week. According to estimates, in the United States each...
Zero is an important number at Broward Health North. The 409-bed community hospital in Deerfield ...
Only a small percentage of patients develop a health care-associated infection after surgery, and...
Here’s a disheartening statistic from the National Cancer Institute: in the United States, white ...
Here's a disheartening statistic from the National Cancer Institute: in the United States, white ...
June 2–8 is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health Improvement s...
Improving discharge can reap multiple benefits for patients and providers, including reducing rea...
Does your hospital huddle? Staff in the medical-surgical unit at Fairbanks (AK) Memorial Hospital...
From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and fa...
Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...
Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...
By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...
Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Re...
Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...
The rural community of Ellenville, New York (population 4,000), and the New York borough of Brook...
For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...
For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...
For 18 years, Community House Calls, a UW Medicine program of Harborview Medical Center in Seattl...
Walk into an ER for treatment and walk out with a medical home. Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospit...
Wrong site surgeries are rare and difficult to study. But most health care organizations recogniz...
A strategy to use a single, integrated EMR has helped make Elliot Health System, based in Manches...
Clinical IT systems create great opportunities and challenges, especially for rural hospitals. St...
Providing high-quality care to every child has always been the objective at Children's Mercy Hosp...
Educating staff. Connecting patients to primary care physicians upon discharge. Identifying patie...
A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...
A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...
The answer is: attracting, retaining and developing the best workforce. The question: What is one...
Overcoming transition challenges requires tenacity and teamwork. During a time of transition befo...
Efficient bed placement for patients can mean fewer discharge delays, decreased length of stay an...
The mission: to eliminate all preventable harm by January 1, 2012. The team leaders: board of dir...
Transplant recipients are fragile patients, at high risk for infections and fluid and electrolyte...
The patient population of Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass., seemed to lack diversity. But by ac...
The patient population of Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass., seemed to lack diversity. But by ac...
"Navigating the rising tide of HACs" is what Baystate Medical Center (BMC) calls this project. A ...
Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii, used "a novel approach" to ...
A focus on wellness to provide better health and better health care is part of the AHA's Health F...
The journey from good to great for Good Samaritan Hospital of Baltimore started with differentiat...
Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis wanted to transform its organization and in turn, transformed i...
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, wanted to transform its organization and in turn, transformed ...
Abington Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from the chie...
Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from th...
Seamless, effective patient handoffs are a critical piece of any hospital?s patient safety framew...
Evergreen Hospital Medical Center, Kirkland, Wash., implemented best practices in patient flow bu...
For expectant mothers at risk for childbirth complications, the OB assist team at Abington (Pa.) ...
ED bottlenecks are common problems in hospitals causing excessive wait times, decreasing patient ...
As the automobile industry in Flint, Mich., has declined, area residents have faced significant s...
"There are two jobs at Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare, Utica, N.Y. "taking care of patients directl...
The 3,500 employees of Eastern (Bangor) Maine Medical Center are role models for other employees ...
After attending a 2005 conference on trauma-informed care, two nurses at Chambersburg (Pa.) Hospi...
Extending services beyond the hospital walls to its most vulnerable patients?that is the goal of ...
When change proves challenging, involving everyone in the process can be key. Advocate Good Sheph...
When change proves challenging, involving everyone in the process can be key. Advocate Good Sheph...
The Problem Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem nationwide, caused, in part, by injudi...
The Problem Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem nationwide, caused, in part, by injudi...