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Hospitals and health systems recognized for excellence in health care equity are sharing their wo...
On May 7, 2017, I swore an oath to become the 118th chairman of the American Hospital Association...
This weekend kicks off a not-to-be-missed event for hospital and health system leaders: the AHA’s...
Nurses have always been on the front lines at hospitals providing quality, compassionate care for...
I have been so proud to see America’s hospitals and health systems speak so passionately on behal...
Hospitals are helping students with disabilities transition from school to the workplace. Mat-Su ...
Every aspect of a patient’s experience of care is influenced by valuable and often underused reso...
A vigorous approach to quality improvement at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Ill., is ac...
When outpatients at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, were frequently getting lost on their way to app...
State and regional hospital associations across the United States are recognizing hospitals and h...
At hospitals, health care systems and state, regional and metropolitan hospital associations acro...
Mission accomplished, but the work continues. At Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in L...
Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...
Leadership, innovation and commitment to quality and safety—all are needed to deliver exceptional...
The Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence website highlights quality improvement stories at hundreds...
Learning, sharing resources and discussing projects on cutting-edge topics in health care transfo...
Identifying solutions to reduce hospital-acquired conditions. Working to spread this knowledge to...
Trustees, senior leaders and quality chairs play a pivotal role as their hospitals and health car...
Take best practices from two industries focused on safety and reliability—nuclear power and aviat...
Three Illinois hospitals received recognition for “delivering quality with distinction” by the Il...
Managing population health, financial planning for value-based care and payment, and leading impr...
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...
Today’s hospital and care system leaders are addressing challenges while maximizing opportunities...
At hospitals, health care systems and state, regional and metropolitan hospital associations acro...
The health care field leaves a large environmental footprint, but hospitals and health care syste...
Providing world-class quality health care may seem an audacious goal for a small or rural hospita...
A new member of the health care team is helping to improve clinical outcomes and patient experien...
Redefine. Partner. Integrate. Experiment. Specialize. Many hospitals and care systems are embarki...
Four generations are working side by side in hospitals and care systems today. Atlantic Health Sy...
Never underestimate the power of data. Hannibal (Mo.) Regional Hospital focused on collecting and...
Preventing hospital-acquired infections, reducing surgical complications and reducing readmission...
Eliminating hospital-acquired infections, preventing patient falls, reducing preventable readmiss...
Learn from the best of the best. The 2013 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize® recipients will s...
At North Shore-LIJ Health System, teamwork is everywhere. This New York health system uses TeamST...
The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...
In July 2013, the AHA released another collection of action-oriented resources that can help hosp...
Think of all the instruments, equipment and furniture in a hospital operating room. Any of these ...
Telepsychiatry is playing a pivotal role in providing timely care to hospitalized mental health p...
Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typic...
Today we need leaders who can help address the challenges and maximize the tremendous opportuniti...
Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...
What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...
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...
"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...
Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...
A just culture. A culture of transparency. A patient-first culture. Culture transformation at Uni...
Continuous. Quality. Improvement. To achieve that goal, Meriter Hospital, a 448-bed facility in M...
E-mail, e-books, e-commerce. And now for patients, eVisits. At the University of Pittsburgh Medic...
The rural community of Ellenville, New York (population 4,000), and the New York borough of Brook...
Communication breakdowns continue to be a leading cause of medical errors. Staff at Butler County...
When Kaiser Permanente in California measured its incidence of pressure ulcers in patients three ...
Implementing quality improvement projects can improve patient safety and reduce inefficiency. But...
A strategy to use a single, integrated EMR has helped make Elliot Health System, based in Manches...
Care coordination is challenging for complex and vulnerable patient populations. Montefiore Medic...
To promote healthy communities, hospitals must lead the way and serve as role models. A recent AH...
Clinical IT systems create great opportunities and challenges, especially for rural hospitals. St...
Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...
Careful planning and multidisciplinary teamwork were keys for Bethesda Hospital, a 140-bed long-t...
Restructuring care has reduced readmissions at St. Mary?s Duluth (MN) Clinic Heart and Vascular ...
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...
Statistics fans, check out these numbers: Staff at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) has...
Responding to an explosive growth in patient population, Yale-New Haven Hospital implemented a su...
Electronic health records may create less paperwork, but documentation can still be time-consumin...
An integrated approach to project design drove breakthrough improvement in operating results at S...
Labor and delivery departments are busy places. At New York-Presbyterian, providing appropriate b...
Rethinking a registration process kept its meds system in compliance. St. James Hospital and Heal...
"Navigating the rising tide of HACs" is what Baystate Medical Center (BMC) calls this project. A ...
Timely access to health care is important for everyone, particularly our nation's veterans. From ...
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...
At the 7th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium in Chicago this fall, Kathi Patterson,...
While many health care-acquired infections are transmitted by personal contact due to poor hand h...