Case Studies
The ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association produces case studies on its member organizations across a wide range of health-care topics.
Norwegian ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿, Chicago, improved both influenza and pneumococcal vaccination rates by 73 and 32 percent, respectively, achieving care that is patient centered.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, worked to create a highly reliable system for follow up of unexpected radiologic findings, improving timeliness of care.
Matching patients with primary care physicians was top priority of this project improvement by the care team at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago.
Montefiore Medical Center's School Health Program is the largest and most comprehensive school-based health program in the country. It provides medical, dental, behavioral, preventive and community-based health services to 27,000 students in 65 Bronx public schools more than 70,000 times a…
Albany Medical Center developed the Child Advocacy Resident Education program that aims to improve access to healthier foods in Albany's South End neighborhood. Physicians established a farmers' market in this urban neighborhood to provide locally grown produce and information about…
The National Center for Health Care Leadership's diversity leadership demonstration project is the first to employ pre-post intervention assessment of system-wide diversity and cultural competence change initiatives. The project emphasized collaboration between researchers and professionals to…
In a this video, leaders from CHRISTUS Health provide an overview of the Equity of Care initiative, including the importance of eliminating health care disparities and key action areas for eliminating these disparities. These action areas include increasing the collection and use of race, ethnic…
Increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of the nation's health professions workforce has many advantages: workforce that more accurate represents US population; minority health professionals are more likely to work in medically underserved areas; and as a strategy toward eliminating health…
In 2013, the Connecticut Multicultural State Partnership, a non-profit health advocacy group, received a federal grant to specifically address racial and ethnic health disparities by increasing the adoption and implementation of the The National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically…
African immigrants and refugees represent four percent of the total population in the United States. In the Washington, D.C. area, African-born individuals represent 11 percent of the total population, making the District one of the largest metropolitan areas for African residence in the United…