To the Rescue
This unusual organization’s journey to deliver healthcare to its community contains valuable lessons for the federal government.
 
Clear Case
Providence Regional Medical Center’s healthy financials and satisfaction scores are proof that a little corporate know-how works wonders in healthcare.
 
Common Ground
AtlantiCare CEO David Tilton says his organization’s quest for the Malcolm Baldrige award helped get everyone pushing on the same side of the boulder.
 
Kaweah Delta Healthcare District: Learning and Growing
Kaweah Delta Healthcare District: Learning and Growing A long-term replacement project is just one of the many ongoing goals to improve access and quality in this fast-growing hospital system.
 
Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan: Time of Transformation
Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan: Time of TransformationWith healthcare in a period of extensive change, this organization is looking for ways to maximize health savings and create options that provide quality and value.
 
UMass Memorial Health Care: Above and Beyond Community Benefit
UMass Memorial Instead of looking just internally for ways to improve quality and reduce costs, this system is going into the streets.
 
Abaxis: Faster, Cheaper, Better
Abaxis This company provides one tool that can help physicians reduce costs and provide better care.
 
Health Outcomes Sciences: A Better Outcome
Health Outcomes This software company developed a solution that allows clinicians to better predict what an individual patient’s risk is, based on clinical data and personal history. 
 
Sterling Life Insurance Company: Authentic Value
Sterling Life Insurance These Medicare experts are focused on serving the needs of Medicare beneficiaries, providers, and business owners.
 
Affordable Care: Making the Leap
Affordable Care: Making the Leap Good isn't good enough for the new leader of this fast-growing dental care company.
 
American Health Centers: On the Go
American Health Centers: On the Go This mobile imaging service provider is constantly looking for ways to better serve those in its communities. New service lines are just the beginning.
 
Schroer Group: Quality Across Boundaries
Schroer Group: Quality Across Boundaries This healthcare company excels when it comes to providing services through its own facilities and to outside facilities.
 
Pacific Dental Services: Love Your Dentist
Pacific Dental Services: Love Your DentistThis dental business support services organization is growing fast, bringing modern convenience and better service, as well as a more sustainable model, to thousands across the country.
 
Brandon Regional Hospital: Step it Up
Brandon Regional Hospital: Step it Up This healthcare provider has worked hard to continuously expand its service offerings over the last three decades.
 
SelectHealth: Coordinated Care
SelectHealth: Coordinated Care This health plan adds value for its members and employees through a model of service other plans would do well to emulate.
 
Memorial Hermann Outpatient Imaging: Time for Action
Memorial Hermann Outpatient Imaging: Time for ActionWhether healthcare reform is passed or not, there are big changes on the way for the imaging industry.
 
Kisco Senior Living: Principled Growth
Kisco Senior Living: Principled Growth For this California-based senior living community company, living by its principles and beliefs is of utmost importance.
 
Toledo Clinic: The Good Group
Toledo Clinic: The Good GroupThe physicians of this healthcare group collaborate and direct its growth for the benefit of patients throughout Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan.
 
Long Prairie Memorial Hospital & Home: Rustic Excellence
Long Prairie Memorial Hospital & Home Although it exists in a town of only 2,840, this rural critical access hospital has invested in the services and technologies needed to provide top quality care.
 
Technology: True Connections
Dr. Charles Jaffe of HL7 talks about what’s needed to deliver better HIT interoperability.
 
Finance: Fully Compliant
With the government taking a keen interest in hospitals claiming provider-based status, it pays to know the rules.
 
Finances: Slimming Down
Do lean methods lead to lower costs? We’ve got the proof right here.
 
Best Practices: Do Ratings Matter?
We look at how the ratings game affects hospitals, what it takes to move up, and whether you should care.
 
Technology: Can Open Source Help Healthcare?
It may not be the magic bullet some imagine, but open source could help create standards, leading to a streamlined system with fewer errors.
 
Management: Navigating the Healthcare Waters
Doing well by doing good—patient advocate programs are a win for patients and hospitals.
 
Active Day: Gaining Recognition
This organization offers a cost-effective, long term care solution, and with revamped programming and an emphasis on outreach, it’s set to grow in the years ahead.
 
American Dental Concepts: On a Mission
This dental management company is using a multi-disciplinary model to change how dentists operate and how patients feel.
 
BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre: Supporting a Strong Network
This Vancouver hospital works with partners throughout British Columbia to provide comprehensive, high quality care for women.
 
California Transplant Donor Network: Handling With Care
Organ donation can be a tricky process for potential donors and their families, but this nonprofit handles it with a caring and knowledgeable attitude.
 
Carefor Health & Community Services: Care for One, Care for All
Since 1897, this Canadian community nursing and home healthcare organization has continued to enhance its services to the people of Eastern Ontario.
 
Christus Santa Rosa Health System: Tight Alignment
This health system has long been one of the leading providers in its region, and with an emphasis on physician relationships, it’s ready for what’s to come in the years ahead.  
 
Doctors’ Memorial Hospital: Finding Stability
New leadership intends to tap into the vast potential at this North Florida acute care facility.
 
Aero-Med: Ready for Liftoff
This company has become one of the largest disposable medical supply distributors in the country, thanks to its high-volume, low-margin approach.
 
American Imaging Management: Leading the Way
This growing healthcare management and technology company has consistently provided solutions that have kept up with a dynamic industry.
 
ArjoHuntleigh North America: The Power of One
Last year turned out to be an excellent time for the merger of two respected medical equipment providers: the result was an even better experience for customers.
 
Delta Health Alliance: Working Today for a Better Tomorrow
Since 2001, this alliance has been focused on addressing healthcare gaps in the Mississippi Delta.
 
Dose of Reality: The Naked Hospital
Editor-in-chief Jill Rose says hospitals should no longer expect their contracts to remain hidden from public view or their business behaviors to go unnoticed.
 
Dose of Reality: Do You Tweet?
Editor-in-chief Jill Rose has sound advice for healthcare executives trying to wrap their brains around social media outlets.
 
Contrarian Edge: Why Staff People Fail
Management guru Clay Sherman wants to know why no one is interested in telling people how to be successful as staff—since only 7% of the workforce occupy leadership positions.