Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...

Palliative care specializes in taking care of patients with serious illness and focuses on provid...

Assisted living facilities allow residents to "age in place" by adjusting their level of care and...

At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients the...

Kaiser Permanente developed a home-based model of palliative care that uses an interdisciplinary ...

Acute care hospitals have been establishing palliative programs at a rapid pace; the United States n...

Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

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

AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

At-large members are individuals in health care with an interest in the activities of the AHA and...

The American Organization of Nurse Executives is the national organization of nurses who design, ...

Secondary analysis of data from two studies examining palliative care in rural areas was conducte...

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

The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...

How to solve the problem? Many practices have found the answer in the creation of high-functionin...

An article on the SF Gate website profiles the new wave of medical school graduates, millennial a...

Between March and June 2012, Jackson Healthcare conducted a series of online physician surveys th...

Mayo Clinic has four operating unites to create new tools, processes and businesses. The Division...

As part of Franciscan St. James Health's commitment to improve the surgery processes, the hospita...

This list features five recommendations for family medicine. The goal is to identify items: commo...

This list was created by the AAAAI executive committee. The goal is to identify items: common in ...

The American College of Cardiology asked its standing clinical councils to recommend between thre...

The group collaboratively identified and narrowed down screening or diagnostic tests commonly use...

An initial list of topics was narrowed down based on the highest potential for improvement, repre...

This paper examines successful approaches to delivering mental health treatment in primary care a...

This decision-maker brief offers programmatic and policy changes that can help practices, especia...

This guide describes how HCAHPS data should be used in context with other information about organ...

This report utilizes Dartmouth Atlas data to show differences in resource utilization among the 2...

The Joint Academy is a multidisciplinary team approach that begins in the community with orthoped...

South Nassau Communities Hospital initiated the "Knot So Fast" project to promote a safe and effi...

Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...

Traditionally, primary care physicians maintain chief responsibility for treating their criticall...

Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...

The goal of this initiative was to improve patient flow, outcomes, and experience, as well as com...

AIM focuses care on people with advanced illness, which often involves more than one chronic diag...

The Respecting Choices' advance care planning program, developed in La Crosse, Wisconsin, is a mu...

In 2006, Ascension Health, the nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit health care system, chose ...

AtlantiCareAtlantic City, NJ538 Beds The Problem The Special Care Center is a primary care cente...

Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

Summa Health SystemAkron, OH461 Beds The Problem Summa Health System serves a five county region...

This report provides a guide to conducting health impact assessments. It stresses the importance ...