Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The closed-door discussion focused on the best practices of organizations that have won or were f...

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 ...

Clinical IT systems create great opportunities and challenges, especially for rural hospitals. St...

To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...

Frequently Asked Questions regarding implementation of the market reform provisions of the Affor...

Representatives from Catholic Health Initiatives in Denver, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in...

Hospital IT departments are facing what one executive calls a "tsunami of activities, expectation...

Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...

The National Committee for Quality Assurance starts an accountable care organization accreditati...

Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...

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...

Careful planning and multidisciplinary teamwork were keys for Bethesda Hospital, a 140-bed long-t...

While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behavi...

A Pittsburgh-based wellness program enlists entire communities to promote wellness for children.

This certified CME/CE activity focuses on caring for patients with chronic pain in the hospital ...

This certified CME/CE activity is designed to heighten the awareness of and adherence to evidence...

This certified CME/CE activity addresses professional practice gaps in the optimal care of chroni...

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

The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...

Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient ca...

This annual webinar highlights thhe 2011 AHA-McKesson  Quest forQuality winners and finalists. 20...

Providing high-quality care to every child has always been the objective at Children's Mercy Hosp...

HHS final standards for data collection on race, ethnicity, sex, primary language and disability ...

Steve Riney, Chief Information Officer at Methodist Medical Center of Illinois in Peoria, talks t...

The current understanding of what drives readmission focuses on the quality of the inpatient disc...

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

Ascension Health has some lofty goals: cut serious safety events by 40 percent by 2014. This come...

How do you measure success in creating a culture of health? Mountain View Hospital, a 25-bed crit...

How do you measure success in creating a culture of health? Mountain View Hospital, a 25-bed crit...

Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed a...

Falls prevention monitoring led to a closer look at Mercy Medical Center's acute inpatient rehabi...

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

According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...

In 2003 the Institute of Medicine called on health plans to collect data on their members  race a...

This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support...

The October issue focuses on disparities in health care, including an article on high-cost, low-q...

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

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Steering Committee for the Prevention of H...

HAP launches a health care worker universal influenza vaccination campaign. The campaign provides...

The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...

n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...

In this article, the author argues that health equity is best achieved by securing access to high...

This article proposes an examination of health disparities through the lens of public health to p...

A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

This brief, based on site visits from Nov. 2009 through March 2010, highlights care coordination ...

A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...