In the Leapfrog Group's third release of hospital safety grades, overall scores rose minutely, but more hospitals got worse than got better. "So far, these numbers aren't really moving," s...

Patient satisfaction and quality of care matter to most frontline staff and other hospital employees, and they certainly matter in terms of reimbursement. The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcar...

By now, many in healthcare have learned from other industries that getting frontline staff input is essential to quality improvement. However, the task of obtaining that input has been a bit more chal...

Healthcare Finance News reports that according to research done by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Magnet hospitals have lower patient mortality rates and better patient outcomes, ...

Wrong site surgeries and medication mishaps get all the gory malpractice headlines, but diagnostic errors are a larger, deadlier, and costlier problem, according to a study released Monday by Johns ...

They come into the emergency department as if it's their second home; indeed, they often are on a first-name basis with the medical personnel who are there to greet and treat them. On this particula...

The ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® (MRP) requires hospitals to have evidence-based practice embedded in the culture of the organization. The ANCC also expects nurses to conduct research projec...

Q: What is the basic model for a risk assessment? ...

Columbus Regional Hospital has been recognized by the Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium as the first community-based independent hospital to achieve Heart Failure Center re-accreditation in 2013. ...

A team from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, collaborating with a team in Bern, Switzerland, is closer to a formula that accurately predicts which patients with medical illnesses (but not sur...