Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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...

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

If you build a community of care, people will come. It happened when Middlesex Hospital, in Middl...

If you build a community of care, people will come. It happened when Middlesex Hospital, in Middl...

Reducing health care disparities is a growing national priority and state hospital associations a...

After a decade of war and an unprecedented number of combat deployments, our service members, vet...

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

How do you successfully integrate behavioral health and primary care? A recent HPOE webinar highl...

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

Children diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities and behavior disorders need q...

Patients may be Christian, Jew, Muslim or of any other religious expression—at Lutheran Medical C...

Telepsychiatry is playing a pivotal role in providing timely care to hospitalized mental health p...

This webinar examined best practices and lessons from the field on health care transformation ini...

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

The AHA's Committee on Research developed the report, "Engaging Health Care Users: A Framework fo...

The YWCA of Greater Milwaukee created a diversity training program focused on race and racism, in...

According to the Pew research center,  74 percent of all adults in the United States use the Inte...

Kaiser Permanente, as an integrated health care delivery system, has made significant progress to...

This case study explores the process of accessing health care from the perspective of the immigra...

The medical center’s mission was to reduce the C. difficile rate from 26.7 cases per 10,000 patie...

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

From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and fa...

From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and fa...

This report identifies steps that policy, public health and community stakeholders can take to pr...

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

The conclusion of H&HN's yearlong series on hospital, community and national efforts to identify ...

Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...

The Affordable Care Act and state Medicaid reform efforts present opportunities to reengineer hea...

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

This report is part of a new effort to provide medical students with information about the patter...

At the 2012 American Public Health Association annual meeting, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation spo...

Annual analysis of the health care of a record number of Americans by the National Committee for ...

Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...

America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, say...

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

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

This commentary was written by  Daren R. Anderson, MD, vice president and chief quality officer, ...

This discussion paper analyzes factors that attribute to  better outcomes at lower costs. The aut...

After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

Roseland Community Hospital joined the Illinois Foundation for Quality Healthcare, the quality im...

Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

During this webinar, hear how AnMed Health is applying the principles of REaL (race, ethnicity an...

This web seminar highlighted improvements in staff training and building the culturally competent...

In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

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

My goal in this article is to use the laws of physics to help readers think in new ways about sha...

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

Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...