Market forces are driving renewed interest in integration that may result in changes in the owner...

January 1st, 2012
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Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

January 1st, 2012
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Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient ca...

November 1st, 2011
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Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed a...

October 9th, 2011
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This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support...

October 1st, 2011
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Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

October 1st, 2011
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While many hospital and health systems have already implemented evidence-based medicine and proce...

September 22nd, 2011
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The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...

September 1st, 2011
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Throughout the United States, allied hospital associations—state, regional and metropolitan—are w...

July 1st, 2011
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This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a...

April 1st, 2011
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Given economic and industry trends related to the worldwide financial markets, the nation's econo...

December 1st, 2010
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This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

November 1st, 2010
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This guide communicates the idea that workforce and human resource practices can positively impac...

June 1st, 2010
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Due to the size and breadth of their organizations, multi-hospital health system leaders have a s...

March 1st, 2010
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The Problem Inefficiencies in the fast track at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have long b...

October 8th, 2009
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The Problem Like many hospitals, Westmoreland struggled with significant ED crowding and patient...

October 8th, 2009
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Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine shocked the health care field and the general public wit...

October 1st, 2009
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The Problem Emergency departments across the nation are being stretched as more Americans rely o...

September 1st, 2009
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The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...

August 1st, 2009
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The Problem St. Francis struggled getting non-emergent patients from the door to an ED bed in a ...

August 1st, 2009
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