Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

Diabetes is among the ten leading causes of death in both white and African American patients, bu...

Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...

Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...

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

There has been a growing interest over the past several years in the concept of payment bundling,...

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit, produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundat...

Accelerating Care Integration Lack of care coordination and integration was identified as a majo...

Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...

Secondary analysis of data from two studies examining palliative care in rural areas was conducte...

Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...

This webinar introduces strategies to increase physical activity through community design.

Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...

The Association for the Healthcare Environment represents directors, managers, supervisors, suppl...

The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...

This audio program features current news and information from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Rese...

The IHI Improvement Capability Self‐Assessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...

The AHA is dedicated to highlighting the good work that America's hospitals are doing to care and...

By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...

Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...

Continuous. Quality. Improvement. To achieve that goal, Meriter Hospital, a 448-bed facility in M...

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

Clinical integration is needed to facilitate the coordination of patient care across conditions, ...

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

On April 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services  released a final regulation for the ne...

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

How to solve the problem? Many practices have found the answer in the creation of high-functionin...

On the CUSP: Stop BSI and Stop CAUTI aim to eliminate central line associated bloodstream infecti...

The following information is a guide of infection prevention recommendations for outpatient (ambu...

This online education program has been developed by infection control experts from Joint Commissi...

A loading dose is an initial dose of medication administered to rapidly achieve therapeutic level...

Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...

As health care facilities continually look to strengthen their falls prevention programs and resp...

There is widespread agreement that the current fee-for-service approach to paying for health care...

America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, say...

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...

Authored by Kaufman Hall executives, this guide describes the groundwork and prerequisites requir...

Seasonal influenza remains a serious public health concern. According to the CDC, seasonal influe...

The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...

This fact sheet summarizes the finding from the 2012 Most Wired survey results. The Most Wired s...

The American Hospital Association's Physician Leadership Forum helps physicians and hospitals adv...

This web seminar provided participants with information about diversity management, cultural comp...

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

Compassionate and cost effective is how Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Fla., des...

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

Every four years, the Olympic Games recognize athletes on a quest to be the best in their chosen ...

Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...

Between March and June 2012, Jackson Healthcare conducted a series of online physician surveys th...

“End of life care,” “serious illness” or “advanced illness” are some of the terms used to categor...