Employee Retention

A collection of success stories on improving staff satisfaction and retention from the front lines of American health care, providing free access to strategies used by hospitals and medical practices nationwide to improve care.

What Can be Done to Encourage More Interprofessional Collaboration in Health Care?

September 1, 2011 | Issue Brief

Interprofessional collaboration holds promise for reducing medical errors, improving the quality of care and meeting the needs of diverse populations.

Speaking Together: National Language Services Network

National Program

This program, the first of its kind to integrate quality improvement techniques with hospital-based language services.

Hablamos Juntos: Improving Patient-Provider Communication for Latinos

National Program

To improve access to quality health care for Latinos with limited English proficiency through the use of cost-effective interpretation and translation services.

Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care

National Program

Expecting Success was a national program aimed at improving the quality of cardiac care while reducing racial, ethnic and language disparities.

Language Barriers in Health Care

September 1, 2008 | Journal Article

Select Findings from the Literature

Do Information Systems Affect Adverse Events in Hospitals - and the Workload of Nurses?

October 18, 2010 | Program Result

Researchers with the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco, measured the effect of two information systems at the Veterans Administration (VA) on the number of adverse events experienced by patients and the hours worked by nurses.

End of Life Care at Academic Medical Centers

March 1, 2006 | Journal Article

The expansion of U.S. physician workforce training has been justified on the basis of population growth, technological innovation and economic expansion. Our analyses found threefold differences in physician full-time-equivalent (FTE) inputs for Med ...

Improving Patient Provider Communication for Latinos at Temple University Hospital and Temple University School of Medicine

November 1, 2011 | Journal Article

The report profiles a program at Temple University that aimed to increase the availability of highly trained medical translators. Temple University was one of 10 sites across the country awarded grants under the RWJF initiative Hablamos Juntos.

Stigma and Depression Treatment Utilization Among Latinos

May 5, 2011 | Journal Article

Stigma around depression affects Latino's interest in seeking treatment.