Ten hospitals have been awarded the Premier Partnership for Patients Award for success in patient safety initiatives.

A majority of healthcare quality professionals believe that reducing readmissions is extremely important for cost reduction at healthcare organizations, according to a new survey of healthcare quality improvement professionals in the United States conducted by ASQ, a global network of…

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has signed into law legislation that establishes patient limits for registered nurses who work in all the state's hospital intensive care units.

Medicare patients who received navigation services had a 30-day readmission rate 4 percent lower than those who did not receive navigation services, according to the results of The Center for Health Affairs' patient navigation pilot program implemented at Lakewood (Ohio)…

More than one-third of total knee replacements in the United States were classified as "inappropriate" using a patient classification system developed and validated in Spain, according to a study published Arthritis & Rheumatology.

Recent analysis of evidence by the American College of Physicians shows that the harms caused by healthy women getting pelvic examinations outweigh demonstrated benefits and recommends against performing screening examination in asymptomatic, non-pregnant women.

Worldwide, acute gastroenteritis causes the second greatest burden of all infectious diseases — and norovirus is the cause for many of those cases, according to research published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

UnitedHealthcare has announced a second round of physicians will be removed from the company's Medicare Advantage plan on Sept. 1, according to an article in St. Louis Today.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston's School of Public Health, has been recognized for its role in the city of Brownsville's receipt of the RWJF Culture of Health Prize from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

According to the Merritt Hawkins' 2014 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives, hospital-employed settings account for 64 percent of physician and advanced practitioner searches.