As hospitals and health systems face growing financial pressures to maintain a certain level of clinical quality, executives are leaning on internal quality improvement programs to keep their care in ...

How can pediatric hospitalists improve critical-care billing and documentation for hospitalized pediatric patients?

The old adage of learning from your mistakes isn’t just good advice for people; it applies to healthcare organizations as well. When hospitals make mistakes in the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused quality leaders to seek innovative solutions to not only maintain but reinvigorate quality efforts, with renewed attention on maintaining measures as hospitalizations ...

In 2013 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that it would begin levying penalties against hospitals with the highest rates of hospital-acquired conditions through the ...

Background Prehospital delays remain critical barriers to timely acute coronary syndrome (ACS) care, particularly for ...

ORLANDO, Fla.—Like many Americans, Don Berwick, M.D., says his head is still spinning from the results of last month’s presidential election and what the fallout will mean for the healthcare industry.

Tommy Ferrari, a Master of Public Health (MPH) student in the department of Health Management and Policy at the Dornsife School of Public Health (DSPH), began his graduate program in 2020 when the ...

Medicare’s seven-year public reporting initiative for hospitals, Hospital Compare, had no impact on reducing death rates for two key health conditions and just a modest effect on a third. That’s the ...

Editor’s note: Alice Brewer is the senior director of clinical affairs at PDI Healthcare. The latest list of hospitals facing federal penalties for poor quality has been released. Through hospital ...

WILLMAR — CentraCare emergency departments at three hospitals, including Rice Memorial Hospital in Willmar, were recognized by the Minnesota Hospital Association with the Quality and Patient Safety ...

Maternity services at a North Yorkshire hospital have improved, according to the care watchdog. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) previously gave Harrogate District Hospital a "requires improvement" ...