The move from volume- to value-based care has profound implications for those who design, build a...

December 1st, 2012
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One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...

November 26th, 2012
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A key objective of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's new reimbursement and payment...

November 19th, 2012
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Palliative care specializes in taking care of patients with serious illness and focuses on provid...

November 15th, 2012
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At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients the...

November 12th, 2012
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For the  last 15 years, public hospitals have pursued multiple strategies to help maintain financ...

November 1st, 2012
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Health care reform presents academic health centers with an opportunity to test new systems of ca...

November 1st, 2012
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At the 2012 American Public Health Association annual meeting, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation spo...

October 30th, 2012
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AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

October 30th, 2012
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Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...

October 25th, 2012
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Accelerating Care Integration Lack of care coordination and integration was identified as a majo...

October 1st, 2012
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On April 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services  released a final regulation for the ne...

September 12th, 2012
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This commentary was written by  Daren R. Anderson, MD, vice president and chief quality officer, ...

August 1st, 2012
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Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...

July 1st, 2012
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This article discusses divergent concepts of population health between care delivery systems and ...

June 1st, 2012
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A multidisciplinary team was developed with objectives to provide clear, easy to understand educa...

June 1st, 2012
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Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...

June 1st, 2012
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This paper explores the current landscape of patient-centered medical home services for patients ...

March 1st, 2012
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The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

February 1st, 2012
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Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...

February 1st, 2012
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South Nassau Communities Hospital's goal for this initiative was to ensure rapid identification o...

February 1st, 2012
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St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester, division of Saint Joseph's Medical Center began this initiati...

February 1st, 2012
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Market forces are driving renewed interest in integration that may result in changes in the owner...

January 1st, 2012
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