Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The conclusion of H&HN's yearlong series on hospital, community and national efforts to identify ...

What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...

In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...

What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...

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

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

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

The November issue of Trustee magazine delves into hospital mergers with a cover article featurin...

Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

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

Physicians' steady interest in hospital employment — a trend that has accelerated in recent years...

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

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

 For baby boomers, the peak interest in health issues comes at about age 51, with a second peak c...

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

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

A monograph from the Association of American Medical Colleges, in partnership with the Institute ...

This how-to guide describes the essentials elements of preventing obstetrical adverse events, inc...

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

Bernard J. Tyson, a Kaiser Permanente employee and leader for 28 years and its chief operating of...

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

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

Health plans and Medicare are using cost profiles to identify which physicians account for more h...

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

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

Health care reform presents academic health centers with an opportunity to test new systems of ca...

The implementation of accountable care organizations, a new health care payment and delivery mode...

This cross-site comparison of the early experience of four provider organizations participating i...

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

The Florida Hospital Association is proud to recognize the 2012 Celebration of Achievement in Qua...

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

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

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

Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...

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

AHRMM is the premier membership group for health care supply chain and materials management profe...

AHVRP, a professional membership group of the AHA,  is the premier professional membership societ...

With more than 11,000 members, ASHE is the largest association devoted to optimizing the health c...

ASHHRA of the AHA, is the leading membership organization exclusively dedicated to meeting the pr...

Established in 1980, ASHRM is a personal membership group of the AHA with nearly 6,000 members re...

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

SHCA is a not-for-profit health care organization dedicated to serving those who advocate in the ...

Today's hospital leaders are in need of products and services to help them meet growing efficienc...

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

An Alliance for Health Reform toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...

Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

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

Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...

Accelerating Care Integration Lack of care coordination and integration was identified as a majo...

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

Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...

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

This audio program features current news and information from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Rese...

The AHA is dedicated to highlighting the good work that America's hospitals are doing to care and...

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

Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...

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...

America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, say...

The American Hospital Association's Physician Leadership Forum helps physicians and hospitals adv...

This web seminar provided participants with information about diversity management, cultural comp...

Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...

Objective: Rates of venous thromboembolism as high as 58 percent have been reported after trauma,...

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

The Standardized Care to Improve Outcomes in Pediatric ESRD (SCOPE) Quality Collaborative helps d...

The Health Disparities Cancer Collaborative implemented six components of the chronic care model ...

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

Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...

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

This article discusses how clinically at-risk and socially disadvantaged populations may not be f...

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

University Hospitals Case Medical Center has undergone a decade-long cultural transformation to a...

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