Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed a...

Falls prevention monitoring led to a closer look at Mercy Medical Center's acute inpatient rehabi...

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

This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Steering Committee for the Prevention of H...

HAP launches a health care worker universal influenza vaccination campaign. The campaign provides...

The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...

This report outlines promising provisions in the Affordable Care Act to achieve improved health a...

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

The Rand Health Insurance Experiment found that patients had little or no control over their hea...

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

Reining in health care costs has become a central policy challenge for government and a pressing ...

The U.S. is facing an epidemic of chronic disease at the same time as it's facing tough decisions...

Just three years ago, Mississippi Baptist Medical Center faced falling quality indicators, staff ...

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

This sponsored supplement explores the challenges of investing for lower-cost devices, services a...

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

Health care professionals and patients all agree that wrong site surgery is a serious and prevent...

Through HFMA's Value Project, health care finance leaders are joining their clinical partners to ...

Results from the 2010 survey about readmission activities are presented