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Cuts in funding for Medicaid and SCHIP programs that reduce eligibility and enrollment are likely to achieve cost savings largely by reducing access and shifting costs away from the two programs, ...
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New Hampshire residents will have more tools to guide them in defining the type of medical care they receive at the end of their lives; and every year for the past decade, about 100 Oregonians ages 65 and older have committed suicide.
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Researchers and policy-makers are finding that efforts to address racial and ethnic disparities in health care run into difficulty because of a very basic problem.
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Government data confirm a significant gap exists in the amount of health care accessed by people who do and do not have health care coverage.
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The top 10% of the 445 participants in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP®) were recognized in October for hitting the mark on a variety of data points deemed important to surgical outcomes.
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Theres nothing new in The Joint Commissions first chapter of the 2015 Comprehensive Accreditation Manual Hospitals, and yet, everything about it is new. The chapter includes more than two dozen standards, all of which appear in other chapters, all having to do with patient safety systems, creating a learning organization, and fostering a culture of quality.
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If you are an accredited hospital, you already know what to do if Ebola comes to your door. At least thats the theory. But what we think we know how to do, and what actually happens may not always coincide.
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If you ask someone familiar with Lean management systems to name one of the things that makes those systems different from more traditional healthcare management, he or she may very well mention that leadership makes it a point to head to the front lines regularly.
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Even though hes an advisor for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Richard Scoville, PhD, is quick to tell you that Lean management or its related iterations in healthcare, Virginia Masons management system and Sutter Healths adaptation of it are really quite good.
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You can see the quote from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality on almost any Web page devoted to quality improvement: Quality health care means doing the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right person and having the best possible results.
