Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

In many contexts, cesarean delivery has come to be regarded as the safer option, when in fact it ...

To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...

Representatives from Catholic Health Initiatives in Denver, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in...

Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...

This webpage gives tips for safely disposing (getting rid of) needles and other sharp devices tha...

In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...

Reducing postoperative complications could reduce costs associated with readmissions by millions ...

This certified CME/CE activity focuses on caring for patients with chronic pain in the hospital ...

This certified CME/CE activity is designed to heighten the awareness of and adherence to evidence...

This certified CME/CE series is designed to heighten the awareness of and adherence to evidence-b...

The IOM's Roundtable on Health Literacy brings together leaders from the federal government, foun...

This paper explores the current limits of primary care in the US, looks at illustrative models th...

As the use of palliative care grows, so does the diversity of patients who opt for it. A free cur...

Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements ...

One of the leading alternative payment models proposed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is bund...

Steve Riney, Chief Information Officer at Methodist Medical Center of Illinois in Peoria, talks t...

Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions designed to encourage greater coordination an...

In the United States, there has been a growing health care divide between vulnerable populations ...

A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...

According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...

Vermont begins building a single-payer health system that will move many state residents into a p...

This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support...

This white paper introduces an overall approach and tools designed to support two processes: the ...

Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Steering Committee for the Prevention of H...

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

The business adage "what gets measured gets managed" applies in health care. Two projects focus o...

The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...

Could changing the staffing model in the intensive care unit reduce patients' risk of dying?Accor...

n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...

This article proposes an examination of health disparities through the lens of public health to p...

This article describes the development of the regional health collaborative, a population-based h...

The Rand Health Insurance Experiment found that patients had little or no control over their hea...

A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

This brief, based on site visits from Nov. 2009 through March 2010, highlights care coordination ...

A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

This website gives history and information to patients, providers, payers of western New York sta...

A report released jointly by AARP's Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN F...

Changing demographics continue to fuel the growth of cultural diversity in Northeast Ohio. In tur...

Changing demographics continue to fuel the growth of cultural diversity in Northeast Ohio. In tur...

This report summarizes the results of that survey, which indicated that overall influenza vaccina...

Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...

Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitiviti...

Throughout the United States, allied hospital associations—state, regional and metropolitan—are w...

Health care professionals and patients all agree that wrong site surgery is a serious and prevent...

Results from the 2010 survey about readmission activities are presented

The patient population of Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass., seemed to lack diversity. But by ac...

The patient population of Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass., seemed to lack diversity. But by ac...

Salt and a jar of pickles: That's what one HealthEast (St. Paul, Minn.) transition coach found in...

Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii, used "a novel approach" to ...

An analysis of the current market

Racial and socioeconomic inequity persists in health care quality. An exploratory interview with ...

At the 7th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium in Chicago, Nancy Donaldson, R.N., dir...

Why Is Focusing On Preventable Mortality Important?Hospital leaders work hard every day to provid...

 The purpose of this guide is to provide hospitals with a resource to help reduce inappropriate v...

2011 Guidelines

This report discussses the Center for Disease Control's involvement with Prevention Research Cent...

This article presents four case studies of effective community and academic partnership that impr...

Given economic and industry trends related to the worldwide financial markets, the nation's econo...

This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

The Urgency of Health System Reforms to Ensure Respect for Patients'  Wishes and Accou...

After reading many success stories about hospitals streamlining and improving patient flow in the...

After defining patient-centered medical homes, this report discusses particular opportunities and...

The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...

A wrong-site surgery on a toe was the catalyst for a comprehensive new surgical time-out initiati...

A key ingredient for success under health care reform will be the ability to utilize health infor...

The Problem Administrative burdens and inefficient processes left nurses spending just one-third...

Reducing patient readmissions is both a critical patient safety need and a growing financial conc...

Even best practices need fine-tuning. When the critical care team at Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta, ...

Due to the size and breadth of their organizations, multi-hospital health system leaders have a s...

When change proves challenging, involving everyone in the process can be key. Advocate Good Sheph...

When change proves challenging, involving everyone in the process can be key. Advocate Good Sheph...

The guide is designed to serve as a quick, simple resource by outlining four steps: Examine yo...