There is a critical need to elevate the discussion around workforce planning and development to e...

February 22nd, 2017
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This guide is a synopsis of a conversation held at the Association for Healthcare Resource & Mate...

December 17th, 2013
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Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...

March 31st, 2013
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Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...

March 12th, 2013
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Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...

March 6th, 2013
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A key objective of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's new reimbursement and payment...

November 19th, 2012
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Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...

October 25th, 2012
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On April 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services  released a final regulation for the ne...

September 12th, 2012
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Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...

July 1st, 2012
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Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...

June 1st, 2012
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The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

February 1st, 2012
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Market forces are driving renewed interest in integration that may result in changes in the owner...

January 1st, 2012
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Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...

December 1st, 2011
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Success in strategic organizational initiatives depends on changing the way people work together.

November 10th, 2011
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CMS issued a final rule with comment period that updates payment policies and rates for physician...

November 1st, 2011
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In an effort to provide hospitals and health systems nationwide with guidance, Premier developed ...

September 30th, 2011
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Labor and delivery departments are busy places. At New York-Presbyterian, providing appropriate b...

May 9th, 2011
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ED bottlenecks are common problems in hospitals causing excessive wait times, decreasing patient ...

May 17th, 2010
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The Problem More than one million serious medication errors occur each year in U.S. hospitals. T...

October 8th, 2009
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The Problem The women and infants department's lean journey began in early 2006 when a local hos...

July 31st, 2009
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