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...

The 2012 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality award winners and finalists are highlighted in this webin...

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

A key objective of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's new reimbursement and payment...

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

The AMA Principles for Physician Employment are intended to help physicians, those who employ phy...

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

Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

SHSMD is the premier organization for 4,000 health care professionals responsible for strategy de...

Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...

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

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

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

Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...

The Association for the Healthcare Environment represents directors, managers, supervisors, suppl...

The IHI Improvement Capability Self‐Assessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...

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

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

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

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

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

Health care professionals at Henry Ford Health System know how to connect with teenagers. About 1...

The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in American men, after skin cancer. According to...

This study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...

Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...

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

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

A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...

This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...

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

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

Obstructive sleep apnea is an often unrecognized contributing cause for respiratory failure in ho...

The OSF cardiac service line implemented a STEMI Improvement project to identify obstacles that c...

Resurrection Medical Center had a percutaneous coronary intervention within 90 minutes compliance...

The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...

Shortcomings in the treatment for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock were observed. An ...

The results from a 32-month long national collaborative, Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac...

This statistic may surprise you: Mental health conditions and mood disorders including depression...

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

Transitioning to the new coding system is a mammoth undertaking, one that requires not just signi...

In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

This guide provides techniques, case studies and guiding principles from various fields of expert...

Achieving health care equity and eliminating health care disparities are a top goal of hospitals ...

At the end of the second quarter of 2010, The Brooklyn Hospital Center identified that only four ...

Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...

The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...

Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...

Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...

In the winter of 2010, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital initiated its first Comprehensive Unit-Bas...

As part of a larger process redesign focused on Northern Westchester Hospital's inpatient medical...

For more than ten years, St. Elizabeth Medical Center has focused on length of stay and resource ...

Performing well with the core measures has become increasingly important and challenging for heal...

In November 2009, a group of 12 representatives from various areas within Rochester General Healt...

Falls increased in Thompson Health's inpatient areas in 2009 and 2010, and the number of falls wa...

In 2005, Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center's leadership directed implementation of ...

South Nassau Communities Hospital's goal for this initiative was to ensure rapid identification o...

Anticoagulants have been identified as one of the top five medication classes associated with pat...

Improving patient flow throughout the Bon Secours Charity Health System is critical to patient sa...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' inpatient quality reporting program includes appr...