Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Over the past eight years, an interdisciplinary team at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital prioritized...

Adventist HealthCareRockville, Maryland1,045 Beds The Problem Adventist HealthCare created the C...

Barnes-Jewish HospitalSt. Louis, MO1,305 Beds The Problem Barnes-Jewish Hospital created the Cen...

University HospitalsCleveland, OH1,032 Beds The Problem To address the changing demographics of ...

The hospital partnered with the Wyoming Department of Health to work to eliminate health disparit...

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...

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

Market forces are driving renewed interest in integration that may result in changes in the owner...

Johns Hopkins Health SystemBaltimore, MD912 Beds  The Problem Hopkins ElderPlus is the Programs ...

Wishard Health ServicesIndianapolis, IN293 Beds  The Problem Geriatric Resources for Assessment ...

Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

SSM Saint Mary’s Medical CenterSaint Louis, MO 374 Beds The Problem Better Outcomes for Older Ad...

AtlantiCareAtlantic City, NJ538 Beds The Problem The Special Care Center is a primary care cente...

Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

Montefiore Medical CenterBronx, NY1,418 Beds The Problem Montefiore Medical Center is a large, a...

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

This article discusses preliminary findings from the National Congress of American Indians Policy...

This report discusses the necessity of health information technology to effectively and systemati...

Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio, OpenNotes is being tested by...

Carolinas HealthCare System, based in Charlotte, N.C., is partnering with 12 YMCA branches "to cr...

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

The objective of this study was to describe health plan efforts to collect language data from its...

Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...

In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conduc...

About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...

In many contexts, cesarean delivery has come to be regarded as the safer option, when in fact it ...

To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...

Representatives from Catholic Health Initiatives in Denver, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in...

Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...

This webpage gives tips for safely disposing (getting rid of) needles and other sharp devices tha...

In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...

Reducing postoperative complications could reduce costs associated with readmissions by millions ...

This certified CME/CE activity focuses on caring for patients with chronic pain in the hospital ...

This certified CME/CE activity is designed to heighten the awareness of and adherence to evidence...

This certified CME/CE series is designed to heighten the awareness of and adherence to evidence-b...

The IOM's Roundtable on Health Literacy brings together leaders from the federal government, foun...

This paper explores the current limits of primary care in the US, looks at illustrative models th...

As the use of palliative care grows, so does the diversity of patients who opt for it. A free cur...

Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements ...

One of the leading alternative payment models proposed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is bund...

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

Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions designed to encourage greater coordination an...

In the United States, there has been a growing health care divide between vulnerable populations ...

A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...

According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...

Vermont begins building a single-payer health system that will move many state residents into a p...

This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support...

This white paper introduces an overall approach and tools designed to support two processes: the ...