Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

A trip to the emergency department too often conjures up images of crowded waiting rooms and exte...

The latest Alliance issue brief reports on how collaboratives are working at the local level to i...

This article discusses the evidence base behind population health management and explores the fut...

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...

Responding to an explosive growth in patient population, Yale-New Haven Hospital implemented a su...

"We will open the doors." This was no magic incantation. Instead, the critical care unit at Virgi...

Poor planning. High costs. These issues helped prompt Saint Joseph-London in London, Ky., to impr...

Drug prescriptions need to accurately identify the medications that prescribers intend for pharma...

The Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals.

As America's hospitals and health systems are transforming care, hospitals are facing challenges ...

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...

The mission: to eliminate all preventable harm by January 1, 2012. The team leaders: board of dir...

Electronic health records may create less paperwork, but documentation can still be time-consumin...

An integrated approach to project design drove breakthrough improvement in operating results at S...

Transplant recipients are fragile patients, at high risk for infections and fluid and electrolyte...

Through HFMA's Value Project, health care finance leaders are joining their clinical partners to ...

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 ...