Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, ...

Now, more than ever, hospitals and health system CEOs cannot sit on their hands as new care deliv...

Joint ventures between investor-owned and nonprofit health care organizations are not new; in fac...

This article explores eight of the most challenging and interesting issues that hospital leaders ...

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

One of the most vital strategies in the current health care environment is physician-hospital ali...

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

Using key metrics, MaineHealth gauges its impact on population health The board's challenge--wha...

A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...

Quality is the first word that comes to mind when we talk about the American Hospital Association...

Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...

This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.

Saving lives and promoting community health certainly are commendable undertakings. To fully real...

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

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

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

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

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