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Medical City Dallas Hospital is taking a proactive approach to Medicares prepayment review process.
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A key to the success of Monmouth Medical Centers readmission program is ensuring that patients get the care they need after discharge and understand their treatment plan and medication regimen.
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By 2020, all accredited hospitals are supposed to achieve a 90% success rate for flu vaccinations among staff.
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No one would argue that ventilators are lifesaving tools for many critically ill patients. But like so much in healthcare, too much of a good thing can be bad.
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What do you do when something you desperately want to fix just won't be fixed?
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When you talk to officials at The Joint Commission (TJC) about the annual sentinel event reports released in July, they are quick to tell you that the data represent just a portion of sentinel events in the country, because reporting them to the organization is voluntary.
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Maybe in today's jaded world, $75,000 doesn't seem like a lot of money to win. But along with that little financial windfall won by University Hospital Case Medical Center in Cleveland in July, came a prestigious title: Winner of the American Hospital Association McKesson Quest for Quality award.
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Butler County Health Care Center (BCHCC) in David City, NE, is small it has 25 beds serving a rural community of 2,500 but the administrators think big.
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Before Kootenai Medical Center in Coeur d'Alene, ID, began its pain care management program, emergency department physicians were spending 36% of their work day seeing patients whose primary complaint was pain, excluding orthopedic patients and those experiencing chest pain.