Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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...

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

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

PLF hosted a session on achieving team-based health care delivery. David Nash, MD, founding dean ...

A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...

Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...

This is a collection of resources around computerized physician order entry to assist in implemen...

UNC Hospitals is committed to providing a patient-centered care environment. A team of leaders is...

A strong collaboration among senior leadership, governance and the medical staff at Meriter Hospi...

A collection of 10 short essays by the industry luminaries who have received HRET's TRUST Award s...

E-mail, e-books, e-commerce. And now for patients, eVisits. At the University of Pittsburgh Medic...

Mayo Clinic has four operating unites to create new tools, processes and businesses. The Division...

Partner's created the Center for Connected Health to promote technology-enabled innovations in te...

Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...

The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...

Quality is the first word that comes to mind when we talk about the American Hospital Association...

This study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...

This discussion paper analyzes factors that attribute to  better outcomes at lower costs. The aut...

After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...

Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...

A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...

This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...

Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...

The OSF cardiac service line implemented a STEMI Improvement project to identify obstacles that c...

Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...

The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...

A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...

The rural community of Ellenville, New York (population 4,000), and the New York borough of Brook...

With nearly half of all emergency departments operating at or above capacity and the majority of ...