Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This second report in this series expands and explains all three strategies and focuses on patien...

This articles argues that now is the time to integrate public health and primary care in a way th...

A central goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to significantly reduce the n...

Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

Patient-reported experiences of care are an important focus in health disparities research. This ...

The Affordable Care Act and state Medicaid reform efforts present opportunities to reengineer hea...

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

While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...

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

Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

In an era of team-based care, nurses are increasingly taking on new leadership roles. Beatrice Ka...

As the patient-centered medical home model gains momentum, providers must strike a balance betwee...

"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

Efforts to improve U.S. health care must include payment reforms that encourage greater efficienc...

"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

For the last century, the major causes of disease and death among Americans have changed, shiftin...

The Association of American Medical Colleges is pleased to present Diversity in Medical Education...

Bundled payments are becoming more attractive to the health care industry as providers learn that...

In 1996, as the growth in managed care increased the role for general internists and primary care...

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

Medicaid is the nation's health coverage program for the low-income population, covering , more t...

Hospital trustees considering a merger or other affiliation should ask themselves if they are tre...

Cigna’s Collaborative Accountable Care initiative provides financial incentives to physician grou...

Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...

Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...

Northwestern Memorial Hospital developed a comprehensive toolkit focused on the prevalence and im...

Sandy Hausman reports on the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, a Commonwealth Fund-supported de...

The Evaluation and Research on Antimicrobial Stewardship's Effect on Clostridium difficile (ERASE...

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

Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...

Diabetes is among the ten leading causes of death in both white and African American patients, bu...

There has been a growing interest over the past several years in the concept of payment bundling,...

By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...

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

A loading dose is an initial dose of medication administered to rapidly achieve therapeutic level...

Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...

There is widespread agreement that the current fee-for-service approach to paying for health care...

Seasonal influenza remains a serious public health concern. According to the CDC, seasonal influe...

The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...

This fact sheet summarizes the finding from the 2012 Most Wired survey results. The Most Wired s...

“End of life care,” “serious illness” or “advanced illness” are some of the terms used to categor...

PLF hosted a session on achieving team-based health care delivery. David Nash, MD, founding dean ...

This multi-year NACHRI effort is focused on reducing CLABSI in the pediatric hematology/oncology ...

Patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure are more likely...

This commentary was written by  Daren R. Anderson, MD, vice president and chief quality officer, ...

This is a collection of resources around computerized physician order entry to assist in implemen...

This toolkit presents Muskegon County's Community Health Needs Assessment  process and results, a...

Studies suggest that the presence of multiple chronic conditions (MCC) adds a layer of complexity...

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

America’s hospitals are committed to protecting the health and well-being of all patients, especi...

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

Pennsylvania facilities submitted 879 medication error reports from July 1, 2004, through January...

Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...

A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...

After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...

Roseland Community Hospital joined the Illinois Foundation for Quality Healthcare, the quality im...

Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...

A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...

Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...

Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...

At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...

Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...

Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative asses...

Using Plan-Do-Study-Act, this initiative prioritized utilization of spirometry as the standard di...

The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...

The reduction of HAPU has been a focus for 10 years at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center. Over tha...

Quarterly surveys revealed elevated hospital-acquired pressure ulcer rates unchanged by previous ...

A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...

The aim of this project was to reduce the number of Venous Thromboembolisms acquired during hospi...

A multidisciplinary team was formed to increase the rate of risk assessment and appropriate thera...

This guide provides hospital leaders with a snapshot of hospitals' current readiness to participa...

The rural community of Ellenville, New York (population 4,000), and the New York borough of Brook...

With nearly half of all emergency departments operating at or above capacity and the majority of ...