Case Studies

The 黑料正能量 Association produces case studies on its member organizations across a wide range of health-care topics.

Keeping staff safe from aggressive patients and visitors is top of mind at Louisville, Ky.- based Norton Children鈥檚 Hospital.
Southwestern Vermont Health Care. Bennington, Vermont (SVHC) partners with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health and is an integrated non-profit health system that includes a 99-bed hospital, 25 primary care and specialty care practices, and two nursing homes.
Sky Lakes Medical Center (SLMC), located in Klamath Falls, Oregon, is a rural, not-for-profit, community-owned, internationally accredited acute-care teaching hospital. It is licensed for 176 beds and offers a full range of inpatient and outpatient services, including the Sky Lakes Cancer Treatment鈥
Chatham Hospital is a 25-bed Critical Access Hospital (CAH) located in Siler City, NC. The hospital, accredited by The Joint Commission, provides surgical, medical, pediatric, maternal and emergency services. Community-based outpatient services also are offered.
Advocate Aurora Health, dual headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., and Downers Grove, Ill., made event reporting a top priority by recognizing it as a strategic organizational goal. Staff developed an internal formula to standardize safety event reporting data and compare incident levels throughout 100鈥
Between 2019 and 2020, Children鈥檚 Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) in California put in place a multifaceted workplace violence prevention plan to protect its health care personnel from aggressive and violent behavior.
Mary Washington Healthcare entered into an academic practice partnership with Germanna Community College to meet workforce and clinical needs for the future. The Earn While You Learn model accelerates practice readiness by bridging the gap between education and clinical practice while addressing鈥
This is a comprehensive example of a Hospital's Action Plan providing recordings, handouts, and the plan itself. An action plan with a focus on DEI results in a an organization dedicated to the goals of fostering a more equitable workplace. A finalized action plan results in goals to move forward鈥
This pamphlet is an example of an active DEI initiative at a health organization. They clearly define diversity and inclusion, why it's important, outlining their mission and explaining what they do, and identifying their leaders and members. Most importantly, they indicate how they should be鈥