Case Studies
The American Hospital Association produces case studies on its member organizations across a wide range of health-care topics.
Like many hospitals across the country, Cheyenne Regional Medical Center in Laramie County, Wyoming, was seeing the effects of the nationwide opioid crisis – and had to change its approach after the COVID-19 pandemic made the situation worse.
OSF HealthCare, based in Peoria, Illinois, launched OSF Innovation to “embrace change and take on the largest health care challenges.” The team assessed what was needed to improve health outcomes and safety, increase access to care and make care more affordable.
Community Memorial Health System located in Ventura, California, partnered with Channel Islands University to create a caregiver navigator program.
Samaritan Health Services collaborates with local organizations to serve people who need health care, regardless of their circumstances, and to keep them healthy once they leave the hospital.
The team at Luminis Health is breaking down barriers to good health for all people and providing easy-to-use tools that make it possible to lead a healthy lifestyle.
An innovative partnership between the MetroHealth System and Urban Community School (UCS) was behind a new health center built in Cleveland’s near West Side neighborhood.
At AdventHealth Hendersonville in North Carolina, teams work together across the health system and with community partners to meet the care needs of patients and families during every stage of life and health.
The age-friendly task force at AdventHealth Hendersonville created a vision board that helps drive improvements in caring for older adult patients. The health system works with teams across its network as well as with community partners, includes age-friendly initiatives as part of its annual…
At St. John’s Riverside Hospital, two-thirds of the patient population is over the age of 65. The leadership team at the hospital in Yonkers, New York, has made providing age-friendly care a priority. They know that providing care that is age friendly helps older adults enjoy a better quality of…
Hackensack Meridian Health’s Maternal Health Task Force, a blue-ribbon panel of internal and external experts dedicated to improving maternal health outcomes