Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Implementing a sustainability program requires significant cultural change and time. A good place...

This annual webinar highlights thhe 2011 AHA-McKesson  Quest forQuality winners and finalists. 20...

Providing high-quality care to every child has always been the objective at Children's Mercy Hosp...

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

Among the health promotion and cost-control strategies included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ...

Steve Riney, Chief Information Officer at Methodist Medical Center of Illinois in Peoria, talks t...

The current understanding of what drives readmission focuses on the quality of the inpatient disc...

"App" and "austerity" were among the 2010 "words of the year" named by a dialect society and dict...

John Combes, M.D., president of the Center for Healthcare Governance, talks to H&HN Senior Online...

Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...

Ascension Health has some lofty goals: cut serious safety events by 40 percent by 2014. This come...

The eighth biennial survey of ACPE members identifies key trends and factors driving today's phys...

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

How do you measure success in creating a culture of health? Mountain View Hospital, a 25-bed crit...

How do you measure success in creating a culture of health? Mountain View Hospital, a 25-bed crit...

The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions designed to encourage greater coordination an...

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

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...

The SUNY Downsstate Medical Center kidney transplant team identified an increase in the differenc...

In the United States, there has been a growing health care divide between vulnerable populations ...

A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...

Educating staff. Connecting patients to primary care physicians upon discharge. Identifying patie...

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...

In 2003 the Institute of Medicine called on health plans to collect data on their members  race a...

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

The October issue focuses on disparities in health care, including an article on high-cost, low-q...

The study concludes that more widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in amb...

This white paper introduces an overall approach and tools designed to support two processes: the ...

The Leapfrog Group, a consortium of public and private employers who purchase health care for mor...

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

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

A video on how to care for blind or sight-impaired individuals in a hospital

The new Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide released by WHO Patient Safety in Octo...

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

In a recent study, the non-profit Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. ranks 16th out of 16 nati...

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

The business adage "what gets measured gets managed" applies in health care. Two projects focus o...

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

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

n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...

In this article, the author argues that health equity is best achieved by securing access to high...

This article proposes an examination of health disparities through the lens of public health to p...

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

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...

A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

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