What should the hospital formulary include in addition to the medication names? ...

Healthcare has come a long way in identifying safety issues-even the possibility of safety issues-but as many quality directors and frontline staff know, identifying is not solving....

Hospitals in Connecticut—from Bridgeport to Greenwich and beyond—have looked toward the aviation industry and other high-risk professions to help them operate more smoothly and safely, a...

Health insurance providers have spent less than 1% of the premium dollars they collected from policy holders on quality initiatives, a Commonwealth Fund study said. Source: HealthLeaders Media ...

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

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

Hawaii Pacific Health has proved that high levels of quality improvement coupled with financial savings can change the way care is provided, after achieving an annual return on investment of nine per...

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

An organization's culture, despite what's written on its mission statement, is the collective body of its staff's behavior. Patients' ongoing interactions with hospital staff create hundreds of opp...

The threat of penalties as high as 3% of a hospital's Medicare reimbursement has prompted encouraging reductions in costly readmissions, a top representative of the Obama administration told the Se...