What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...

December 3rd, 2012
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The November issue of Trustee magazine delves into hospital mergers with a cover article featurin...

November 20th, 2012
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Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

November 20th, 2012
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Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

November 19th, 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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Physicians' steady interest in hospital employment — a trend that has accelerated in recent years...

November 16th, 2012
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The AMA Principles for Physician Employment are intended to help physicians, those who employ phy...

November 13th, 2012
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In an era of team-based care, nurses are increasingly taking on new leadership roles. Beatrice Ka...

November 12th, 2012
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Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...

November 8th, 2012
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Joint ventures between investor-owned and nonprofit health care organizations are not new; in fac...

November 8th, 2012
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Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems...

November 8th, 2012
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Three hazards involve health IT system-related technologies While today's health technology adva...

November 7th, 2012
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This article explores eight of the most challenging and interesting issues that hospital leaders ...

November 7th, 2012
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"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

November 5th, 2012
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Bundled payments are becoming more attractive to the health care industry as providers learn that...

November 1st, 2012
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Health plans and Medicare are using cost profiles to identify which physicians account for more h...

November 1st, 2012
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Hospital trustees considering a merger or other affiliation should ask themselves if they are tre...

November 1st, 2012
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Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...

November 1st, 2012
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When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...

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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Beginning in 2014, the reporting of clinical quality measures will change for all providers. Elec...

October 25th, 2012
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Northwestern Memorial Hospital developed a comprehensive toolkit focused on the prevalence and im...

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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AHRMM is the premier membership group for health care supply chain and materials management profe...

October 12th, 2012
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With more than 11,000 members, ASHE is the largest association devoted to optimizing the health c...

October 12th, 2012
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ASHHRA of the AHA, is the leading membership organization exclusively dedicated to meeting the pr...

October 12th, 2012
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Established in 1980, ASHRM is a personal membership group of the AHA with nearly 6,000 members re...

October 12th, 2012
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SHSMD is the premier organization for 4,000 health care professionals responsible for strategy de...

October 12th, 2012
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Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...

October 11th, 2012
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Health Forum provides communications, information, education and research products and services t...

October 11th, 2012
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Today's hospital leaders are in need of products and services to help them meet growing efficienc...

October 10th, 2012
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An Alliance for Health Reform toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

October 10th, 2012
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This journal article sought to determine the effects of EHRs on ambulatory quality in a community...

October 8th, 2012
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Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

October 2nd, 2012
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Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...

October 1st, 2012
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There has been a growing interest over the past several years in the concept of payment bundling,...

October 1st, 2012
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An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit, produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundat...

October 1st, 2012
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Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...

October 1st, 2012
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The Association for the Healthcare Environment represents directors, managers, supervisors, suppl...

September 28th, 2012
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The IHI Improvement Capability Self‐Assessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...

September 26th, 2012
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Clinical integration is needed to facilitate the coordination of patient care across conditions, ...

September 12th, 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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Implementing clinical practice guidelines can improve the quality of patient care and positively ...

September 12th, 2012
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Authored by Kaufman Hall executives, this guide describes the groundwork and prerequisites requir...

September 1st, 2012
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This fact sheet summarizes the finding from the 2012 Most Wired survey results. The Most Wired s...

September 1st, 2012
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The American Hospital Association's Physician Leadership Forum helps physicians and hospitals adv...

August 30th, 2012
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An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

August 27th, 2012
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An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

August 20th, 2012
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A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...

August 1st, 2012
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Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...

August 1st, 2012
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This is a collection of resources around computerized physician order entry to assist in implemen...

August 1st, 2012
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A strong collaboration among senior leadership, governance and the medical staff at Meriter Hospi...

July 19th, 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 study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...

June 1st, 2012
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This discussion paper analyzes factors that attribute to  better outcomes at lower costs. The aut...

June 1st, 2012
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After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

June 1st, 2012
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A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...

June 1st, 2012
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Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...

June 1st, 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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Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...

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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The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...

June 1st, 2012
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A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...

June 1st, 2012
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With nearly half of all emergency departments operating at or above capacity and the majority of ...

April 27th, 2012
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An annual list of the top 100 hospitals in the United States.

April 17th, 2012
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As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

April 5th, 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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An Evidence-informed Case Rate is a budget for a comprehensive episode of medical care within a d...

March 1st, 2012
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This online executive dialogue explores CPOE implementation. Expert CIOs and CMIOs share their ex...

March 1st, 2012
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Transitioning to the new coding system is a mammoth undertaking, one that requires not just signi...

March 1st, 2012
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As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

March 1st, 2012
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According to a recent Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society survey, 41 percent of...

February 1st, 2012
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Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...

February 1st, 2012
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The Brooklyn Hospital Center formed a multidisciplinary rapid response team in 2009 to respond to...

February 1st, 2012
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Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

February 1st, 2012
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Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...

February 1st, 2012
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With unique culture trends and stringent regulatory obligations, patient care units are often cha...

February 1st, 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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The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

February 1st, 2012
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Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...

February 1st, 2012
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For 18 months, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center implemented several interve...

February 1st, 2012
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Although electronic reporting systems for near misses and adverse events have been implemented na...

February 1st, 2012
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For the past three years, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center has been develop...

February 1st, 2012
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As part of a larger process redesign focused on Northern Westchester Hospital's inpatient medical...

February 1st, 2012
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For more than ten years, St. Elizabeth Medical Center has focused on length of stay and resource ...

February 1st, 2012
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This project was initiated by David Lyons, Director of Respiratory Therapy at St. Francis Hospita...

February 1st, 2012
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Strong Memorial Hospital adopted barcode medication administration technology to reduce the incid...

February 1st, 2012
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Performing well with the core measures has become increasingly important and challenging for heal...

February 1st, 2012
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In November 2009, a group of 12 representatives from various areas within Rochester General Healt...

February 1st, 2012
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In response to an increase in fall-related injuries in its skilled nursing facility, Champlain Va...

February 1st, 2012
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Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center created the hospital point of dispensing (HPOD) t...

February 1st, 2012
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NuHealth Nassau University Medical Center identified central line-associated blood stream infecti...

February 1st, 2012
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Rochester General Hospital formed a multidisciplinary team to develop and implement actions that ...

February 1st, 2012
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St. Joseph's Hospital of Elmira implemented a comprehensive antibiotic usage program beginning Ma...

February 1st, 2012
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Improving patient flow throughout the Bon Secours Charity Health System is critical to patient sa...

February 1st, 2012
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Overcrowding and bottlenecks with patient flow plague hospitals and emergency rooms across the co...

February 1st, 2012
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In 2008, a project was underway to renovate Southampton Hospital's emergency department (upgradin...

February 1st, 2012
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In 2010, Southampton Hospital discovered that its process for checking and maintaining equipment/...

February 1st, 2012
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In March 2009, after assessing staff's knowledge about fire prevention and safety, St. Mary's Hos...

February 1st, 2012
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