Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

SSM Saint Mary’s Medical CenterSaint Louis, MO 374 Beds The Problem Better Outcomes for Older Ad...

The Minnesota Hospital Association's SAFE SKIN program provides hospital leaders with resources o...

This report provides a detailed discussion of baseline health spending by state of residence (per...

Health care executives have to ensure that new care models are implemented effectively and improv...

To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...

Frequently Asked Questions regarding implementation of the market reform provisions of the Affor...

Hospital IT departments are facing what one executive calls a "tsunami of activities, expectation...

RWJF video details three perspectives on the need for cost information

This webpage gives tips for safely disposing (getting rid of) needles and other sharp devices tha...

While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behavi...

This certified CME/CE activity is designed to heighten the awareness of and adherence to evidence...

This certified CME/CE activity addresses professional practice gaps in the optimal care of chroni...

CMS issued a final rule with comment period that updates payment policies and rates for physician...

Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements ...

One of the leading alternative payment models proposed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is bund...

Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient ca...

Among the health promotion and cost-control strategies included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ...

The current understanding of what drives readmission focuses on the quality of the inpatient disc...

John Combes, M.D., president of the Center for Healthcare Governance, talks to H&HN Senior Online...

Ascension Health has some lofty goals: cut serious safety events by 40 percent by 2014. This come...

The eighth biennial survey of ACPE members identifies key trends and factors driving today's phys...

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed a...

Falls prevention monitoring led to a closer look at Mercy Medical Center's acute inpatient rehabi...

Vermont begins building a single-payer health system that will move many state residents into a p...

This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Steering Committee for the Prevention of H...

HAP launches a health care worker universal influenza vaccination campaign. The campaign provides...

The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...

This report outlines promising provisions in the Affordable Care Act to achieve improved health a...

In an effort to provide hospitals and health systems nationwide with guidance, Premier developed ...

The Rand Health Insurance Experiment found that patients had little or no control over their hea...

While many hospital and health systems have already implemented evidence-based medicine and proce...

Reining in health care costs has become a central policy challenge for government and a pressing ...

The U.S. is facing an epidemic of chronic disease at the same time as it's facing tough decisions...

Just three years ago, Mississippi Baptist Medical Center faced falling quality indicators, staff ...

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...

Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...

Health care professionals and patients all agree that wrong site surgery is a serious and prevent...

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

Results from the 2010 survey about readmission activities are presented

In late 2010, NAPH administered an online survey to quality directors (or their designee) at 101 ...

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

This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a...

An analysis of the current market

Why Is Focusing On Preventable Mortality Important?Hospital leaders work hard every day to provid...

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

2011 Guidelines

This study examined SSDI applications between 2005 and 2006, focusing on a "natural experiment" t...

An NQF endorsement reflects rigorous scientific and evidence-based review, input from patients an...

This paper discusses how new technologies can be applied to improve the health of populations and...

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

Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...

The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...

The medical standard for timely angioplasty was 90 minutes door to balloon.  The average for Lehi...

Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, wanted to transform its organization and in turn, transformed ...

Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from th...

The federal health reform legislation includes several demonstration projects that will be held i...

The Problem Administrative burdens and inefficient processes left nurses spending just one-third...

Reducing preventable harm by half is a lofty goal for any hospital, let alone a large, integrated...

Presented by Eric A. Coleman, MD,  this webinar addressed proposed changes in how hospitals are r...

An AHA research synthesis report presents an overview of bundled payment, including evidence of i...

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

When change proves challenging, involving everyone in the process can be key. Advocate Good Sheph...

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 Severe sepsis is one of the most significant challenges in critical care. Although S...

The Problem The average ED length of stay was 413 minutes (6 hours, 53 minutes). Fourteen percen...

The Problem ThedaCare selected its radiation oncology (rad-onc) department to kick off a systemw...

The Problem Inefficiencies in the fast track at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have long b...

The Problem Vanderbilt's project didn't address a problem so much as it focused on a goal: to be...

The Problem Like many hospitals, Westmoreland struggled with significant ED crowding and patient...

The Problem More than one million serious medication errors occur each year in U.S. hospitals. T...

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