Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This primer discusses community benefit laws across the United States, noting differences in fede...

Infants born to mothers electively at a gestational age of 37-39 weeks are more likely to develop...

Does your hospital huddle? Staff in the medical-surgical unit at Fairbanks (AK) Memorial Hospital...

Central line-associated bloodstream infections cause serious illness and death. Front-line caregi...

Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...

Southcentral FoundationAnchorage, AK150 beds A nonprofit health care organization owned by the A...

Methodist Le Bonheur HealthcareMemphis, TN1,321 Beds The Congregational Health Network is a part...

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH577 Beds Cincinnati Children’s Hospit...

Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...

Informed Medical Decisions FoundationBoston, MAThe Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, founded...

Emory HealthcareAtlanta, GA Emory Healthcare, a large academic teaching system, deployed a patie...

Atlantic Health SystemNew Jersey1,308 Beds Atlantic Health System owns and operates Morristown M...

Ryhov HospitalJönköping, Sweden Ryhov Hospital is a county hospital in Jönköping, Sweden, with a...

In 2012 the AHA Committee on Research focused on actively engaging health care users to improve o...

43,750: That’s the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates wo...

In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...

Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...

Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

Among California's African American, Native American, Latino and Hmong populations, a diagnosis o...

Patient-reported experiences of care are an important focus in health disparities research. This ...

Palliative care specializes in taking care of patients with serious illness and focuses on provid...

While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...

Assisted living facilities allow residents to "age in place" by adjusting their level of care and...

Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients the...

Kaiser Permanente developed a home-based model of palliative care that uses an interdisciplinary ...

The Association of American Medical Colleges is pleased to present Diversity in Medical Education...

Acute care hospitals have been establishing palliative programs at a rapid pace; the United States n...

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

This report is part of a new effort to provide medical students with information about the patter...

AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...

Sandy Hausman reports on the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, a Commonwealth Fund-supported de...

A just culture. A culture of transparency. A patient-first culture. Culture transformation at Uni...

AHVRP, a professional membership group of the AHA,  is the premier professional membership societ...

At-large members are individuals in health care with an interest in the activities of the AHA and...

SHCA is a not-for-profit health care organization dedicated to serving those who advocate in the ...

The American Organization of Nurse Executives is the national organization of nurses who design, ...

Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...

Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...

Standardization of blood utilization practices could provide opportunity for improved outcomes, r...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...