This guide documents the exceptional work by essential hospitals to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities they serve.

A new report details the second phase of a Kresge Foundation–funded project that supported climate-related projects at three member hospitals.

This annual snapshot of America's Essential Hospitals' membership tells a story about the essential people and communities our members serve.

This guide documents the exceptional work by essential hospitals to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities they serve.

Hospitals can promote the use of donor human milk to provide a lifeline for premature infants and reduce racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes.

This guide documents the exceptional work by essential hospitals to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities they serve, including programs to reduce maternal stress, overcome housing instability, prevent workplace violence, help immigrants navigate care, and battle COVID-19.

This informational brief describes the impact of structural racism on patients, providers, and communities, as well as what essential hospitals and other organizations are doing to combat structural racism.

In a new guide, Essential Hospitals Institute evaluates patient trust in essential hospitals and shares strategies for building institutional trust.

Two new resources share the Institute’s research on essential hospitals’ social determinants of health work and a set of milestones to aid in adopting community-integrated health care.

In this new report, Essential Hospitals Institute explores ongoing work by essential hospitals toward climate resiliency and makes recommendations for policymakers and funders to support the steps they are taking to mitigate their contribution to climate change.

This new brief can help hospitals identify changes that might improve patient experience scores, as well as help policymakers understand how structural factors influence scores and design incentives accordingly.

Hospitals can use these tools to build the workforce and leadership they need to improve population health in their communities.

With funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, the Essential Hospitals Institute developed a road map to help hospitals overcome barriers to implementing person-centered care and evidence based research.

Interpersonal violence is considered a social determinant of health; several association members have worked to reduce such violence as part of community-integrated health care.

This brief summarizes background on the opioid crisis and the key role essential hospitals play in the health care industry’s response to the opioid crisis.

With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Essential Hospitals Institute developed the road map to guide hospitals toward, and overcome barriers to, population health improvement activities.

This brief summarizes the challenges that food-insecure patients face and the measures hospitals can take at the patient, system, and community levels to help improve food security.

Essential hospitals 2.67 times more likely than other hospitals to receive penalties under Medicare readmissions program in FY 2016

New research brief from Essential Hospitals Institute explores some of the key barriers and subsequent solutions to successful behavioral health and primary care integration in essential hospitals.

New data brief from Essential Hospitals Institute investigates which hospital characteristics are linked with lower CMS star ratings and finds that large, urban, teaching hospitals tend to receive lower star ratings.

New brief from Essential Hospitals Institute focuses on clinical and process outcomes from DSRIP waiver work at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in California and University Health System in Texas.

Brief finds that hospitals with more than 400 beds, teaching hospitals, those treating complex patients, and essential hospitals more likely to receive penalties; no evidence that penalties align with outcomes

The third in a series of waiver-related briefs, this research brief summarizes perspectives from hospital leaders in Massachusetts, California, and Texas.

This literature review explores how social connections impact health outcomes and overutilization and offers responsive strategies by essential hospitals.

Annual member characteristics data report documents essential hospitals' commitment to vulnerable patients and communities with high-quality care and vital services, such as trauma, burn, and psychiatric care and physician training. It also shows member hospitals provided outstanding care while ofte

Survey of literature and essential hospital experiences, supported by Aetna Foundation

Challenges essential hospitals may face when implementing HIT

Insight from Boston Medical Center and Cambridge Health Alliance