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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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Understanding state initiatives developed under the Bush administration's Health Insurance Flexibility and Accountability (HIFA) waiver policy can be important.
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The community benefit provided by hospitals may be underestimated because of the challenges hospital face in determining who is eligible for charity care.
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More than three-fifths of Americans surveyed by the Health Coalition on Liability and Access (HCLA) support passage of comprehensive medical liability reform legislation.
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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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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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At a time when Ebola and other emerging infections may first present at an emergency department (ED), researchers are finding a wide range of compliance or lack thereof with infection control measures.
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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.
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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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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.
