Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

BackgroundHenry Ford Health System is a not-for-profit corporation composed of hospitals, medical...

Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...

Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Physician’s Organization implem...

New England Quality Care Alliance, a physician network, implemented a medication prior authorizat...

Boston Children’s Hospital and its associated pediatric primary care physicians organization coll...

The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...

The Department of Veterans Affairs home-based primary care  began in 1972.  Home-based primary ca...

After identifying inequities with affordable access to primary care services and an uncoordinated...

There is a growing need to improve health care, especially at the interface between general medic...

Chambers County was designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration as one of the ...

There is often a lack of coordination among the various health and social systems that provide in...

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...

This brief describes how decisionmakers can encourage a model of care that truly reflects the nee...

As the new operations manager of Delaware Valley Hospital's primary care centers began her assess...

This paper explores the current limits of primary care in the US, looks at illustrative models th...

The study concludes that more widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in amb...

This article addresses health care innovations that can help improve population and meet future h...