Under new legislation passed by New Jersey's legislature, physicians would fill out a survey every two years which could allow the state to access the federal student loan-forgiveness program, according to a NJ Spotlight report.

A free checklist developed by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology to guide implementation of a healthcare worker influenza immunization program is available from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Pardee Hospital in Hendersonville, N.C., and Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health announced a collaboration with YMCA of Western North Carolina to improve community health.

Five variables used in a scoring system can accurately predict Clostridium difficile-infected patients' response to therapy, according to a study in BMC Infectious Diseases.

While a quality improvement tool helped hospitals respond to external incentive programs, several challenges impeded optimal use of the tool, according to a study in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.

CMS announced a new Medicare Chronic Conditions Dashboard to provide researchers, physicians, public health professionals and policymakers data on the geographic spread, required services and costs for beneficiaries with multiple chronic conditions.

Post-discharge communication between inpatient and outpatient providers may not in itself improve 30-day hospital readmission rates, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The number of hospital stays for acute and unspecified renal failure was the most rapidly growing condition between 1997 and 2010, according to a statistical brief from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research…

Maintaining relationships with physicians is an integral component leading to a hospital's current and future financial success. "The only ones who admit patients and provide mainstream revenue to hospitals is the medical staff," says Joseph DeSilva, FACHE, partner at The…

Healthcare needs a new framework of patient experience to understand experience as a complex concept that goes beyond just satisfaction, according to a Press Ganey report.