Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Now, more than ever, hospitals and health system CEOs cannot sit on their hands as new care deliv...

At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients the...

Joint ventures between investor-owned and nonprofit health care organizations are not new; in fac...

This article explores eight of the most challenging and interesting issues that hospital leaders ...

Kaiser Permanente developed a home-based model of palliative care that uses an interdisciplinary ...

Bernard J. Tyson, a Kaiser Permanente employee and leader for 28 years and its chief operating of...

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

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

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, ...

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...

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

Using key metrics, MaineHealth gauges its impact on population health The board's challenge--wha...

A recent article from the Los Angeles Times looks at how the traditional doctor-patient relations...

Although primary care is expected to be  safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, an...

Implementing clinical practice guidelines can improve the quality of patient care and positively ...

Rob Olson, MD, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Bellingham, Wash., sold his solo practice when he ...

An article on the SF Gate website profiles the new wave of medical school graduates, millennial a...