In a presentation titled "5 Basic PR Tactics That Every Hospital System Should Remember," President of Crawford Strategy Marion Crawford discussed how hospitals can connect with the media during times of prosper and crisis. She also discussed internal communication in…
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In a presentation titled "Turning Today's PHO into Tomorrow's ACO," at Becker's Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago, Elizabeth Simpkin, vice president of consulting services, and Carole Black, MD, chief medical officer of Valence Health discussed physician-owned hospitals, accountable care…
The healthcare industry added 32,800 jobs last month, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released results from the Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture, which is an expansion of AHRQ's Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture.
The National Quality Forum has expanded settings in which nursing home quality measures are applicable.
Here is a list of 10 cardiovascular facility expansions at hospitals from the past two months, beginning with the most recent announcement.
A study conducted by researchers from the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium suggests multidimensional infection control programs are vital to reducing healthcare-associated infections in developing countries, according to two studies published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
The Healthcare Technology Safety Institute — part of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation Foundation — has been awarded a $328,660 grant by the CareFusion Foundation to fund a three-year national study on key issues surrounding the administration…
The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety encourages the adoption of newly released guidelines by the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation to improve the safety of patients following surgery.
Exeter (N.H.) Hospital and the state Division of Public Health Services has launched a joint investigation to determine how four patients with common elements in their clinical history were recently diagnosed with hepatitis C.