Mystery meals no more.

Nearly one-third of patients admitted to U.S. hospitals are malnourished. Nutrition in- and outside the hospital is a patient care priority.

A wraparound world.

Health care isn't just a system in itself. It's part of a community. Like any system, a community operates most effectively when all components work in tandem.

TMI? not in today's health care world.

Everybody wants health care providers to better engage patients and their families. But wanting it to happen and making it happen are two different things.

What--and whom--we leave behind.

Baby boomer's careers are winding down. Are they leaving their organizations in good hands?

Tooth and consequences.

Poor oral health is a big problem. Lack of access to preventive dental care is driving kids--and adults--to the emergency department.

Oh, wellness.

Isn't wellness an annoying word? But as employers, hospitals have many reasons to embrace the concept.

Pursuing excellence: AHA initiative demonstrates value of teamwork in improving safety.

Focusing on ways to improve patient outcomes, the American Hospital Association has launched Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence. This effort to transform patient care through shared innovations highlights achievements at various hospitals around the country in areas including patient safety, reducing health care-acquired infections, medication management and patient throughput. As this report illustrates, the roles of materials management, nursing, infection control specialists and others are critically important to this effort.

AHA NOVA Awards.

Giving infants a healthy start or adolescents hope. Instilling healthy habits in one community or protecting another from a dangerous virus. The winners of this year's AHA NOVA Award set lofty goals and worked diligently to achieve them.

Hospitals in pursuit of excellence.

The American Hospital Association and the AHA Quality Center have launched the Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence program, an effort to transform patient care nationwide through shared innovations.

Aiming for perfection.

Hospitals are under enormous pressure from the public, policymakers, payers and their own sense of duty to eliminate errors and waste. While it may never be possible to reach perfection on those twin goals, the American Hospital Association and the AHA Quality Center have launched Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence, which offers real-world examples to help hospitals identify defects in their work systems and improve quality.

As a superbug spreads, so does misinformation.

Health care experts have been working overtime to separate fact from fiction when it comes to the antibiotic-resistant bacteria called MRSA. Just how deadly is it? And what can hospitals do about it?