Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The Association of American Medical Colleges is pleased to present Diversity in Medical Education...

Bundled payments are becoming more attractive to the health care industry as providers learn that...

Health plans and Medicare are using cost profiles to identify which physicians account for more h...

Acute care hospitals have been establishing palliative programs at a rapid pace; the United States n...

In 1996, as the growth in managed care increased the role for general internists and primary care...

Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

Medicaid is the nation's health coverage program for the low-income population, covering , more t...

For the  last 15 years, public hospitals have pursued multiple strategies to help maintain financ...

Hospital trustees considering a merger or other affiliation should ask themselves if they are tre...

Cigna’s Collaborative Accountable Care initiative provides financial incentives to physician grou...

Health care reform presents academic health centers with an opportunity to test new systems of ca...

The implementation of accountable care organizations, a new health care payment and delivery mode...

This cross-site comparison of the early experience of four provider organizations participating i...

Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...

HRET has been awarded a contract by CMS to support their Partnership for Patients campaign. PfP i...

This report is part of a new effort to provide medical students with information about the patter...

The Florida Hospital Association is proud to recognize the 2012 Celebration of Achievement in Qua...

At the 2012 American Public Health Association annual meeting, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation spo...

When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...

Annual analysis of the health care of a record number of Americans by the National Committee for ...

AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

One of the most vital strategies in the current health care environment is physician-hospital ali...

Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...

It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...

Beginning in 2014, the reporting of clinical quality measures will change for all providers. Elec...

In an Oct. 17 webinar presented by Becker's Hospital Review, Scott Becker, a partner at McGuireWo...

Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...

Northwestern Memorial Hospital developed a comprehensive toolkit focused on the prevalence and im...

Sandy Hausman reports on the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, a Commonwealth Fund-supported de...

The Evaluation and Research on Antimicrobial Stewardship's Effect on Clostridium difficile (ERASE...

The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...

A just culture. A culture of transparency. A patient-first culture. Culture transformation at Uni...

AHRMM is the premier membership group for health care supply chain and materials management profe...

AHVRP, a professional membership group of the AHA,  is the premier professional membership societ...

With more than 11,000 members, ASHE is the largest association devoted to optimizing the health c...

ASHHRA of the AHA, is the leading membership organization exclusively dedicated to meeting the pr...

Established in 1980, ASHRM is a personal membership group of the AHA with nearly 6,000 members re...

At-large members are individuals in health care with an interest in the activities of the AHA and...

SHCA is a not-for-profit health care organization dedicated to serving those who advocate in the ...

SHSMD is the premier organization for 4,000 health care professionals responsible for strategy de...

Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...

The American Organization of Nurse Executives is the national organization of nurses who design, ...

Health Forum provides communications, information, education and research products and services t...

Today's hospital leaders are in need of products and services to help them meet growing efficienc...

Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...

Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...

An Alliance for Health Reform toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

Standardization of blood utilization practices could provide opportunity for improved outcomes, r...

This journal article sought to determine the effects of EHRs on ambulatory quality in a community...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...