Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This academic medical center developed and implemented a program to improve outcomes and reduce r...

Every aspect of a patient’s experience of care is influenced by valuable and often underused reso...

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...

Community health needs assessments—CHNAs—are becoming a driver of community collaborations and a ...

A “Germ Crusher” challenge at Children’s Hospital Colorado brought together leadership, staff, pa...

This guide features case studies of the 2015 Foster G. McGaw Prize winner and finalists. These ex...

Hospitals and communities are increasingly recognizing the importance of effective partnerships w...

Hospitals and health systems continually push to improve the health of their communities. Massach...

“Small changes can make a big difference.” So say health care professionals working to prevent ad...

Demand for Brockton Neighborhood Health Center (BNHC) accelerated after it started in 1994 as a m...

Codman Square Health Center in downtown Dorchester, MA exemplifies how a health center can build ...

North Country HealthCare is a federally qualified health center serving fourteen communities in n...

Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) have the potential to be powerful drivers to enhance t...

This AHA report provides a review of the current state for the behavioral health workforce, outli...

Ten years ago, Mercy began telemedicine in its ICUs to improve patient outcomes. Today the St. Lo...

The Institute for Diversity in Health Management in collaboration with the AHA's Hospitals in Pur...

Creating a quieter hospital environment can help the healing process and improve the patient expe...

Mercy, a large Catholic health care system, began its telehealth initiatives with an eICU program...

In January 2015, Southern Illinois Healthcare, based in Carbondale, was awarded an 18-month USDA ...

An integrated health system headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Avera Health serves patie...

Funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Serv...

Based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Gundersen Health System is an integrated tertiary referral center ...

The link between hunger, food insecurity and poor health has been clearly acknowledged as a serio...

April is National Minority Health Month. Led by the HHS Office of Minority Health, the 2016 event...

When outpatients at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, were frequently getting lost on their way to app...

Hospitals and faith organizations are collaborating to improve health care outcomes and organize ...

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

Bassett Medical Center, a 180-bed hospital in Cooperstown, New York, has implemented and sustaine...

Clark Regional Medical Center (CRMC) is a 79 bed, community hospital serving the residents of eas...

Citrus Valley Health Partners (CVHP) is a nonprofit comprehensive health care system based in Los...

Meritus Health’s replacement hospital, Meritus Medical Center, opened five years ago in Washingto...

By adopting a supplier diversity program, hospitals and health care systems can support minority-...

St. Joseph Health, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a 208-bed hospital in Napa, California, is...

Recognizing the need to build a just culture, the leadership team at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hos...

The Baystate Health Breast and Wellness Center, created in 2013, is a combination of two premier ...

Four years ago this hospital had no clinical leadership development program. Physician leaders wi...

Patient and system tracers have been conducted at this institution since 2008. Prior to this proj...

As the conventional analogy notes, change occurs when an organization finds itself atop a burning...

Throughout the country, primary care is faced with ongoing waves of healthcare reform (e.g. Accou...

The health system's vision in 2014 was "to transform the delivery and financing of health care to...

For patients, the transition between acute and post-acute care is rife with risk. Even with moder...

The ICMP Program is a Care Manager collaborative created to ensure the transition of patient care...

The skilled nursing facility three-day waiver program is an exciting opportunity at Partners Heal...

At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a small group of challenging patients account for a disproportio...

The Perioperative Medicine Model of Care is a three-pronged approach to the postoperative care of...

North Shore Medical Center is dedicated to safely transitioning all emergency department patients...

As part of the efforts to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognize...

TEMPO: Together Everyone Improves Patient Outcomes, an initiative undertaken at Saint Vincent Hos...

Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...