Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Care coordination is challenging for complex and vulnerable patient populations. Montefiore Medic...

The closed-door discussion focused on the best practices of organizations that have won or were f...

Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...

In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conduc...

About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...

In many contexts, cesarean delivery has come to be regarded as the safer option, when in fact it ...

To promote healthy communities, hospitals must lead the way and serve as role models. A recent AH...

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have the promise to transform how health care is delivered ...

Ten existential questions will make the difference between limping into the future and soaring to...

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

As the largest segment of the health care workforce, with more than 3 million professionals, nurs...

Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...

An international survey of adults living with health problems and complex care needs found that p...

In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...

Careful planning and multidisciplinary teamwork were keys for Bethesda Hospital, a 140-bed long-t...

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

This certified CME/CE activity focuses on caring for patients with chronic pain in the hospital ...

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

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

The IOM's Roundtable on Health Literacy brings together leaders from the federal government, foun...

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

This policy paper examines the latest developments in accountable care organizations (ACOs), incl...

The federal Affordable Care Act will transform how Californians obtain health insurance. CHCF exa...

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

Implementing a sustainability program requires significant cultural change and time. A good place...

This annual webinar highlights thhe 2011 AHA-McKesson  Quest forQuality winners and finalists. 20...

Providing high-quality care to every child has always been the objective at Children's Mercy Hosp...

HHS final standards for data collection on race, ethnicity, sex, primary language and disability ...

Steve Riney, Chief Information Officer at Methodist Medical Center of Illinois in Peoria, talks t...

"App" and "austerity" were among the 2010 "words of the year" named by a dialect society and dict...

Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...

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

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

The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions designed to encourage greater coordination an...

Restructuring care has reduced readmissions at St. Mary?s Duluth (MN) Clinic Heart and Vascular ...

In the United States, there has been a growing health care divide between vulnerable populations ...

A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...

According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...

In 2003 the Institute of Medicine called on health plans to collect data on their members  race a...

The October issue focuses on disparities in health care, including an article on high-cost, low-q...

Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

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

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

This article describes the development of the regional health collaborative, a population-based h...

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...

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

The answer is: attracting, retaining and developing the best workforce. The question: What is one...

This website gives history and information to patients, providers, payers of western New York sta...

Overcoming transition challenges requires tenacity and teamwork. During a time of transition befo...