Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typic...

Data suggests that the hospital has a three year (2006-2009) CHF readmission average of 24.2 perc...

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

Griffin HospitalDerby, CT160 Beds Griffin Hospital is the flagship hospital for Planetree, Inc.,...

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

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

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

Patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure are more likely...

A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress highlighted the financial enormity of t...

Ellis Medicine started this project in April 2010 to reduce readmissions, as readmissions are cli...

Stern Family Center for Extended Care and Rehabilitation tracked hospital readmissions and found ...

St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester, division of Saint Joseph's Medical Center began this initiati...

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

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

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

The current understanding of what drives readmission focuses on the quality of the inpatient disc...

Restructuring care has reduced readmissions at St. Mary?s Duluth (MN) Clinic Heart and Vascular ...

Results from the 2010 survey about readmission activities are presented

In late 2010, NAPH administered an online survey to quality directors (or their designee) at 101 ...

The guide is based on the learning that emerged from a multi-year pilot project that aimed to red...