Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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The objective of this study was to describe health plan efforts to collect language data from its...

Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...

About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...

Health care executives have to ensure that new care models are implemented effectively and improv...

Clinical IT systems create great opportunities and challenges, especially for rural hospitals. St...

Hospital IT departments are facing what one executive calls a "tsunami of activities, expectation...

The National Committee for Quality Assurance starts an accountable care organization accreditati...

Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...

This webpage gives tips for safely disposing (getting rid of) needles and other sharp devices tha...

An international survey of adults living with health problems and complex care needs found that p...

While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behavi...

This certified CME/CE activity focuses on caring for patients with chronic pain in the hospital ...

This certified CME/CE series is designed to heighten the awareness of and adherence to evidence-b...

This certified CME/CE activity addresses professional practice gaps in the optimal care of chroni...

CMS issued a final rule with comment period that updates payment policies and rates for physician...

This policy paper examines the latest developments in accountable care organizations (ACOs), incl...

Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements ...

One of the leading alternative payment models proposed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is bund...

HHS final standards for data collection on race, ethnicity, sex, primary language and disability ...

Restructuring care has reduced readmissions at St. Mary?s Duluth (MN) Clinic Heart and Vascular ...

According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...

Vermont begins building a single-payer health system that will move many state residents into a p...

Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

Could changing the staffing model in the intensive care unit reduce patients' risk of dying?Accor...

This article describes the development of the regional health collaborative, a population-based h...

In an effort to provide hospitals and health systems nationwide with guidance, Premier developed ...

This brief, based on site visits from Nov. 2009 through March 2010, highlights care coordination ...

While many hospital and health systems have already implemented evidence-based medicine and proce...

This report summarizes the results of that survey, which indicated that overall influenza vaccina...

Statistics fans, check out these numbers: Staff at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) has...

A trip to the emergency department too often conjures up images of crowded waiting rooms and exte...

Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...

Throughout the United States, allied hospital associations—state, regional and metropolitan—are w...

An integrated approach to project design drove breakthrough improvement in operating results at S...

Results from the 2010 survey about readmission activities are presented

The report provides a scientific base and practical guidance fo rengaging public health professio...

Front-line nurses led the way in a medication safety initiative at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, S...

Rethinking a registration process kept its meds system in compliance. St. James Hospital and Heal...

Timely access to health care is important for everyone, particularly our nation's veterans. From ...

Why Is Focusing On Preventable Mortality Important?Hospital leaders work hard every day to provid...

2011 Guidelines

The guide is based on the learning that emerged from a multi-year pilot project that aimed to red...

This paper discusses how new technologies can be applied to improve the health of populations and...

Rarely does an orthopedic physician discuss information workflow with an ER doc, but at Regions H...

The Urgency of Health System Reforms to Ensure Respect for Patients'  Wishes and Accou...

Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...

Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...

After defining patient-centered medical homes, this report discusses particular opportunities and...

The federal health reform legislation includes several demonstration projects that will be held i...