Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This compendium features detailed descriptions of hospital-community partnerships from across the...

It has become widely known that effective hospital-community partnerships are necessary in buildi...

Advancing population health involves fostering effective and sustainable hospital-community partn...

The work of a Washington D.C. collaborative of hospitals and FQHCs is benefiting the entire commu...

Community health initiatives that start with small successes can lead to bigger changes. St. Cath...

The 2017 chair files will begin highlighting efforts that are improving community health beyond t...

Increasingly, hospitals and health systems are forming partnerships to attain the new and demandi...

The Community Health Network (CHN) targets the socioeconomic determinants of health that are not ...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

As the complexity and cost of cancer care increases, there is an urgent need to support and track...

The Care Tracker program at Signature Healthcare collates data from multiple sources, including b...

Diagnostic care for patients referred within the institution for suspicious lung lesions was vari...

Injectable extended-release formulation of naltrexone marketed as Vivitrol is a recent significan...

To meet a high demand for Chinese interpreters, the Tufts Medical Center Interpreter Services wor...

In early 2010, Emerson Hospital board members, medical staff and executive leaders convened to ad...

With the national focus on decreasing hospital-acquired infections, Massachusetts General Hospita...

Dedicated to eliminating catheter-associated urinary tract infections, North Shore Medical Center...

This health care system's unique post-acute care (PAC) continuum of Inpatient Rehabilitation Faci...

Sanpete Valley Hospital, a critical access hospital in Mount Pleasant, Utah, is leading behaviora...

CDMHC’s innovative programs divert hundreds of patients from the hospitals and emergency departme...

The Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina is an unprecedented volunteer collaboration of more t...

In 2008, the two hospital systems partnered with the city of Whittier, the YMCA of Greater Whitti...

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia, N.Y., focused on patients with congestive heart failure,...

Hospitals and care systems are uniquely positioned to play an integral role preventing violence i...

The Road to Better Health Spartanburg has proven that working collectively and in partnership wit...

Montefiore Medical Center's School Health Program is the largest and most comprehensive school-ba...

This article highlights the success of a pilot project between Park Nicollet hospital, St. Louis ...

This issue brief continues the program’s examination of state-level community benefit oversight b...

A growing number of hospitals are engaged in community economic development, recognizing the impo...

This article discusses opportunities for health care providers to leverage Affordable Care Act re...

To become an effective population health manager, a hospital must create effective partnerships. ...

Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health CenterWindsor, VT60 Beds The Problem Mt. Ascutney Hospital and ...

Cheyenne Regional Medical CenterCheyenne, WY222 Beds The Problem Cheyenne Regional Medical Cente...

Cheyenne Regional Medical Center and Cheyenne Health and Wellness Center partner on several initi...

Chambers County was designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration as one of the ...

Davis Health System is a health care network that includes 90-bed Davis Memorial Hospital, 12-bed...

ProMedica’s (NW Ohio and SE Michigan) mission is to improve the health and well-being of the peop...

Project Perlas is a community-based participatory research project addressing disparities in mamm...

The Tool for Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments program seeks to enable raising com...

There is often a lack of coordination among the various health and social systems that provide in...

Kaiser PermanenteOakland, CAKaiser Permanente is a health care provider and nonprofit health plan...

Geisinger Health SystemDanville, PA545 Beds Geisinger Health System is an integrated health serv...

Cambridge Health AllianceCambridge, MA229 Beds Cambridge Health Alliance is an integrated health...

A central goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to significantly reduce the n...

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

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

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

This article describes the development of the regional health collaborative, a population-based h...

This article presents four case studies of effective community and academic partnership that impr...

This report discussses the Center for Disease Control's involvement with Prevention Research Cent...

The Problem Almost 20 percent of Medicare beneficiaries are readmitted to the hospital within 30...