Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Nurses have always been on the front lines at hospitals providing quality, compassionate care for...

The problem faced by the health system was the lack of a coordinated approach for the review and ...

The CK-MB Test is a traditional blood test of a cardiac marker used to assist in the diagnosis of...

Studies show lipase to be as sensitive as and more specific than amylase in diagnosing pancreatit...

State and regional hospital associations across the United States are recognizing hospitals and h...

Addressing the complex needs of older patients and their caregivers is the focus of the Bridge Mo...

During the 2013-14 influenza season, an emergency preparedness mass influenza vaccination drill w...

This blog post is from H&HN, the journal of the American Hospital Association and was written by ...

Sylvia Getman, president and CEO of the Aroostook Medical Center and senior vice president of Eas...

The nation’s health care delivery system is in the midst of a transition from a fee-for-service a...

Hospitals pursuing environmental sustainability are not only contributing to healthier communitie...

Building off the 2013 HPOE guide on value-based contracting this guide provides additional financ...

This guide explains why hospital leaders should explore sustainability strategies for their organ...

Today’s hospital and care system leaders are addressing challenges while maximizing opportunities...

This guide is a synopsis of a conversation held at the Association for Healthcare Resource & Mate...

Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...

Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...

The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...

The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...

Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...

Early and safe mobility of critically ill patients in a cardiovascular surgical intensive care un...

A nurse-driven protocol was implemented to increase the staff’s awareness on the appropriate indi...

The Red Box strategy was created to help reduce cost and health care worker time associated with ...

The critical care unit identified VAP as an area for improvement, with three VAPs from May-July 2...

In late January 2012, pharmacists began reviewing potential pneumonia patients using a screening ...

An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...

The 2012 AHA Committee on Performance Improvement focused on advanced illness management. Well-de...

The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...

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

Compassionate and cost effective is how Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Fla., des...

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

Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and the Health Care Improvement Foundation (HCIF) partn...

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

As a small community hospital, ventilator-associated pneumonia incidence was low. However, the lo...

In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...

In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...

This commentary presents a model developed to explore how health information technology affects c...

Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements ...

This report summarizes the results of that survey, which indicated that overall influenza vaccina...

This sponsored supplement explores the challenges of investing for lower-cost devices, services a...

Through HFMA's Value Project, health care finance leaders are joining their clinical partners to ...

The report defines the meaning of value in health care, provides an overview of the current state...

 The purpose of this guide is to provide hospitals with a resource to help reduce inappropriate v...

2011 Guidelines

In 2005, the neonatal intensive care unit at Women and Children's Hospital of West Virginia exper...

The Problem Pneumonia accounts for approximately 15 percent of all hospital-acquired infections ...

The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...

The Problem While all facitilites aspire to limit the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumon...