Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio, OpenNotes is being tested by...

The objective of this study was to describe health plan efforts to collect language data from its...

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 ...

During this 90 minute session, speakers discussed how to effectively engage patients and their fa...

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

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...

The IPAL Project, an initiative of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, is designed to provide ...

Success in strategic organizational initiatives depends on changing the way people work together.

In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...

Reducing postoperative complications could reduce costs associated with readmissions by millions ...

CAPC Campus Online is an e-learning space covering the structural, operational and financial ess...

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

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

This paper explores the current limits of primary care in the US, looks at illustrative models th...

The federal Affordable Care Act will transform how Californians obtain health insurance. CHCF exa...

As the use of palliative care grows, so does the diversity of patients who opt for it. A free cur...

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

Implementing a sustainability program requires significant cultural change and time. A good place...

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

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...

The SUNY Downsstate Medical Center kidney transplant team identified an increase in the differenc...

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, ...

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

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

The study concludes that more widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in amb...

This white paper introduces an overall approach and tools designed to support two processes: the ...

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

A video on how to care for blind or sight-impaired individuals in a hospital

The new Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide released by WHO Patient Safety in Octo...

In a recent study, the non-profit Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. ranks 16th out of 16 nati...

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

Could changing the staffing model in the intensive care unit reduce patients' risk of dying?Accor...

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

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

This webpage gives consumers resources and tools to be actively engaged in the quality of the car...

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

The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...

Changing demographics continue to fuel the growth of cultural diversity in Northeast Ohio. In tur...

The guide is a resource for those interested or already engaged in quality improvement initiative...

This site, sponsored by the Office of Minority Health, offers the latest resources and tools to p...

A trip to the emergency department too often conjures up images of crowded waiting rooms and exte...

Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitiviti...

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

The Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals.

This guide serves to explore the concept of cultural competency and build the case for the enhanc...

The patient population of Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass., seemed to lack diversity. But by ac...

To expertly execute a dribble handoff in basketball, communication between teammates is key. How ...

March 6-12 is designated as National Patient Safety Awareness Week...and we know that America's h...

The guide is based on the learning that emerged from a multi-year pilot project that aimed to red...

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

This report discussses the Center for Disease Control's involvement with Prevention Research Cent...