Protecting workers from exposure to all types of respiratory hazards is an important issue for ho...

May 15th, 2015
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This issue brief continues the program’s examination of state-level community benefit oversight b...

June 10th, 2014
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This brief focuses on updating significant points concerning community health needs assessment an...

October 1st, 2013
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This primer discusses community benefit laws across the United States, noting differences in fede...

March 1st, 2013
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Assisted living facilities allow residents to "age in place" by adjusting their level of care and...

November 13th, 2012
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Acute care hospitals have been establishing palliative programs at a rapid pace; the United States n...

November 1st, 2012
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Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

November 1st, 2012
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For the  last 15 years, public hospitals have pursued multiple strategies to help maintain financ...

November 1st, 2012
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Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...

October 10th, 2012
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Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...

September 9th, 2012
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The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...

September 1st, 2012
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The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...

January 1st, 2012
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About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...

December 1st, 2011
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Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...

November 16th, 2011
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Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

October 1st, 2011
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n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...

October 1st, 2011
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While many hospital and health systems have already implemented evidence-based medicine and proce...

September 22nd, 2011
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Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitiviti...

July 27th, 2011
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W hat is patient- and family-centered care? Why does it matter? How does it fit with a hospital's...

September 9th, 2008
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