Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This brief, based on site visits from Nov. 2009 through March 2010, highlights care coordination ...

The rate of "mortality amenable to health care" that is--deaths that are considered preventable w...

A report released jointly by AARP's Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN F...

This report summarizes the results of that survey, which indicated that overall influenza vaccina...

This sponsored supplement explores the challenges of investing for lower-cost devices, services a...

Drug prescriptions need to accurately identify the medications that prescribers intend for pharma...

Through HFMA's Value Project, health care finance leaders are joining their clinical partners to ...

The report defines the meaning of value in health care, provides an overview of the current state...

 The purpose of this guide is to provide hospitals with a resource to help reduce inappropriate v...

2011 Guidelines

ED bottlenecks are common problems in hospitals causing excessive wait times, decreasing patient ...

In 2005, the neonatal intensive care unit at Women and Children's Hospital of West Virginia exper...

The Problem Pneumonia accounts for approximately 15 percent of all hospital-acquired infections ...

The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...

The Problem While all facitilites aspire to limit the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumon...

The Problem Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a leading cause of death among all hospitalacquir...

The Problem With mechanical ventilation being a large part of care for critical patients, teh ne...

The Problem The infection rate in the NICU at Charleston Area Medical Center was 18 percent in 2...

The Problem Ventilator associated pneumonia are infections that occur in ventilator tubes and ac...

The report recommends improved ways in which primary care practices should be paid for delivering...