Premier healthcare alliance announced that hospitals participating in the QUEST initiative, which involves benchmarking data and sharing best practices, have a mortality rate 10 percent lower than the national average.

Beginning this year, CMS is paying hospitals a bonus or extracting a penalty depending on the quality of care they deliver. Hospitals administrators know that the difference between getting more and getting less from CMS will depend on how well…

Patients who are discharged from the emergency department with "primary care treatable" diagnoses may actually need emergency care, according to an American College of Emergency Physicians report on a study to be published in the Journal of the American Medical…

Dreaming big — reaching for something that initially seems impossible — coupled with a strong plan can drive higher performance. Oak Brook, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care has a big goal around patient safety, according to Rishi Sikka, MD, vice president…

Symbios Medical Products issued a Class 1 recall of its GOPump Elastomeric Infusion PumpKit, a self-contained infusion system for postoperative pain management, according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

Premier health alliance announced that hospitals participating in its nationwide quality improvement initiative have avoided 92,000 deaths and saved $9.1 billion in costs since 2008.

The Association of Health Care Journalists launched hospitalinspections.org, a database of federal inspection reports on U.S. hospitals since January 2011.

Pittsburgh-based health insurer Highmark has partnered with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and other providers in the area to train paramedics to care for people at their homes, according to a Pittsburgh Business Review report.

Understanding the risk factors of reoperation and readmission after surgical resection of the liver can help improve patient outcomes, according to a study in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Chicago-based Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and its physician group, Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation plan to integrate with Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and its physician group, Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group. Their integrated clinical operations will form a new organization, Northwestern…