Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Since September 2015, the American Hospital Association (AHA)/Health Research & Educational Trust...

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

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

Protecting workers from exposure to all types of respiratory hazards is an important issue for ho...

This issue brief continues the program’s examination of state-level community benefit oversight b...

The 2014 AHA Chair-elect Jonathan  Perlin, MD, co-authored this paper and companion financial mod...

This article discusses how using health adjusted life expectacy could bridge the gap between clin...

This report discusses the importance of health in all policies, an approach to improving health b...

In California, about 16 percent of the adult population, more than 4 million people, have mental ...

This report from the Department of Health and Human Services describes a plan to bolster implemen...

This report indentifies and explains guiding principles to inform the implementation ofCommunity ...

This report details the Institute of Medicine's roundtable on population health improvement and d...

This report discusses strategies to help health care leaders prioritize three foundational elemen...

Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

The Affordable Care Act and state Medicaid reform efforts present opportunities to reengineer hea...

Three hazards involve health IT system-related technologies While today's health technology adva...

Efforts to improve U.S. health care must include payment reforms that encourage greater efficienc...

For the last century, the major causes of disease and death among Americans have changed, shiftin...

Medicaid is the nation's health coverage program for the low-income population, covering , more t...

This report is part of a new effort to provide medical students with information about the patter...

Annual analysis of the health care of a record number of Americans by the National Committee for ...

Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...

Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...

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

Accelerating Care Integration Lack of care coordination and integration was identified as a majo...

Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...

There is widespread agreement that the current fee-for-service approach to paying for health care...

The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...

This discussion paper analyzes factors that attribute to  better outcomes at lower costs. The aut...

The results from a 32-month long national collaborative, Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac...

This guide provides techniques, case studies and guiding principles from various fields of expert...

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...

This report discusses the necessity of health information technology to effectively and systemati...

This report discusses the strenghts of community disease prevention offers and presents a framewo...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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, ...

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

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

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...

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

Drug prescriptions need to accurately identify the medications that prescribers intend for pharma...

This study examined SSDI applications between 2005 and 2006, focusing on a "natural experiment" t...

This 46-page document reviews the history of Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives and consi...

This paper discusses how new technologies can be applied to improve the health of populations and...

The Urgency of Health System Reforms to Ensure Respect for Patients'  Wishes and Accou...

The report recommends improved ways in which primary care practices should be paid for delivering...