The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released a toolkit designed to help hospitals understand and use quality indicators and improve patient safety within their organizations.
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St. Joseph's Hospital in Elmira, N.Y., has abruptly closed its cancer clinic following the sudden departure of Sydney Welt, MD, the oncologist who ran the clinic, according to a Star-Gazette report.
Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and Children's Hospital Boston found patients and their families often have a poor understanding of discharge instructions after leaving the hospital emergency room.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has released its fifth annual health facility-acquired infections report, which showed a 44 percent overall decrease in infections since 2008.
North Carolina legislators are considering revising the certificate of need process healthcare organizations must face when looking to expand or renovate, according to a Daily Tar Heel report.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has published a new white paper that recommends ways to improve evidence and evaluations in support of patient-centered medical homes.
An intermediate rate design between fee-for-service pricing of medical services and capitated, or global, payments is the concept of bundled payments. Under this scheme, the health care organization gets a fixed fee for a given medical condition. A recent article…
Heart Hospital of Austin (Texas) has opened a new heart valve clinic, according to a hospital news release.
Take a moment to reflect on clinical documentation practice over the past decade. A tremendous amount of progress has been made advancing the capture, analysis and distribution of information, and while room exists for improvement, we've come a long way…
Integris Canadian Valley Hospital in Yukon, Okla., has been ordered to pay $1 million to country singer Garth Brooks after a jury ruled the hospital breached its contract with the singer regarding a donation, according to a Houston Chronicle report.