In this study, the research team sought to compare the performance of provider-sponsored health p...

December 4th, 2015
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After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...

June 10th, 2015
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The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

May 27th, 2015
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Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...

March 31st, 2015
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The foundation of all efforts to identify disparities, improve quality, achieve equity and delive...

October 14th, 2014
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St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Conn. 396 licensed beds Full-service teaching hospi...

August 30th, 2013
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The Affordable Care Act and state Medicaid reform efforts present opportunities to reengineer hea...

November 16th, 2012
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The implementation of accountable care organizations, a new health care payment and delivery mode...

November 1st, 2012
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Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...

October 22nd, 2012
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The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...

October 16th, 2012
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A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...

June 1st, 2012
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This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...

June 1st, 2012
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The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...

June 1st, 2012
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The authors found little evidence that participation in the Premier HQID program led to lower 30-...

March 28th, 2012
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Continuum Health Partners'  pay-for performance program (P4P) is designed to partner with physici...

February 1st, 2012
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This article assesses the potential impact of P4P on national hospital disparities using a two-me...

January 1st, 2012
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The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

October 18th, 2011
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In the United States, there has been a growing health care divide between vulnerable populations ...

October 7th, 2011
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Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

October 1st, 2011
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The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

October 1st, 2011
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A report released jointly by AARP's Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN F...

September 8th, 2011
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Due to the size and breadth of their organizations, multi-hospital health system leaders have a s...

March 1st, 2010
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Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine shocked the health care field and the general public wit...

October 1st, 2009
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