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At the 2012 American Public Health Association annual meeting, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation spo...
AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...
Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...
Accelerating Care Integration Lack of care coordination and integration was identified as a majo...
On April 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a final regulation for the ne...
This commentary was written by Daren R. Anderson, MD, vice president and chief quality officer, ...
Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...
This article discusses divergent concepts of population health between care delivery systems and ...
A multidisciplinary team was developed with objectives to provide clear, easy to understand educa...
Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...
This paper explores the current landscape of patient-centered medical home services for patients ...
The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...
Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...
South Nassau Communities Hospital's goal for this initiative was to ensure rapid identification o...
St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester, division of Saint Joseph's Medical Center began this initiati...
Market forces are driving renewed interest in integration that may result in changes in the owner...
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 ...
In many contexts, cesarean delivery has come to be regarded as the safer option, when in fact it ...
As the largest segment of the health care workforce, with more than 3 million professionals, nurs...
Success in strategic organizational initiatives depends on changing the way people work together.
CMS issued a final rule with comment period that updates payment policies and rates for physician...
In an effort to provide hospitals and health systems nationwide with guidance, Premier developed ...
Labor and delivery departments are busy places. At New York-Presbyterian, providing appropriate b...
Salt and a jar of pickles: That's what one HealthEast (St. Paul, Minn.) transition coach found in...
For many hospitals, the road to improved quality often begins with transparency, where unexpected...
ED bottlenecks are common problems in hospitals causing excessive wait times, decreasing patient ...
Presented by Eric A. Coleman, MD, this webinar addressed proposed changes in how hospitals are r...
At Columbia St. Mary's Hospital, Milwaukee, discharge planning truly begins at admission. Care te...
The Problem More than one million serious medication errors occur each year in U.S. hospitals. T...
The Problem Almost 20 percent of Medicare beneficiaries are readmitted to the hospital within 30...
The Problem The women and infants department's lean journey began in early 2006 when a local hos...
From October 2009 to February 2011, MR CHAMMP sponsored 67 programs which were provided to the co...
