John Hopkins researchers looked at three years and 4,500 acute-care facilities worth of readmission and mortality data, finding that hospitals with high readmission rates tended to have lower mortalit...

Initiative saved $60 million and avoided 2,500 serious events in the last three years ...

Early reports of first-quarter survey experiences are starting to trickle in, and, according to some sources and organizations already surveyed by The Joint Commission this year, things are a little...

There was once a time when physicians played an authoritarian role. It was thought that the best medical outcomes were achieved when patients were left almost entirely in the dark, submitting to th...

HFAP this week released its prepublication manual for critical access hospital (CAH), and ambulatory surgical center (ASC) surveys....

When the Partnership for Patients (PfP) program was announced in April 2011, it was billed by CMS Administrator Don Berwick as "the largest national effort on patient safety that we've ever see...

We have seen some enormous numbers arising in the current Ebola outbreak in Africa, with information, both factual and fear-inspired, bubbling up as patients are brought stateside for care. So what ...

The CMS last week released revised hospital guidance for pharmaceutical services and expanded guidance related to compounding medications. ...

Join us for the 7th Annual Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals (AHAP) Conference on June 6-7 in Las Vegas! Previous attendees can attest – The AHAP conference provides inval...

True or False: The plan of care should be considered a living document that needs to be continually reviewed and revised as the patients’ care needs change....