The Health Care Leadership Institute Executive Series presented by BestPractices, an affiliate of EmCare, recently held a day-long educational event for hospital executives in Chicago. Presenters included Chuck Lauer, former publisher of Modern Healthcare; Thom Mayer, MD, founder and CEO…

Hospital leaders in Washington, D.C., oppose a proposed bill that would require certain nurse-to-patient ratios, pointing to increased costs of hiring that could allegedly force some hospitals to close, according to a Kaiser Health News report.

The National Patient Safety Foundation announced the theme of this year's Patient Safety Awareness Week March 3-9 is "Patient Safety 7/365: 7 days of recognition, 365 days of commitment to safe care."

Higher staff satisfaction is weakly associated with lower mortality rates in hospitals in England, according to a study in BMJ Quality and Safety.

Physicians are not effective at patient-centered care, according to a survey by WiserTogether, a company that offers platforms for patient-centered care.

Prescribing medication electronically reduced the risk of an error on the order by nearly half, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

The federal government and individual states have made improvements to the Medicaid program and Children's Health Insurance Program, according to an HHS report.

The National Health Care Workforce Commission, a 15-person independent nonpartisan panel created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, has yet to meet because it has not been awarded a budget, according to a report by The New York…

Hospitals are increasingly looking to partner with physicians on surgery center projects, hoping to build relationships with providers in the community and strengthen their market share. Here are 10 hospitals that planned or opened surgery center joint ventures in the…

This article is written by Jason Wandersee, CEO of MEDISISS, a Medline-owned reprocessing company. MEDISISS is the leader in reprocessing to surgery centers throughout the United States since 1997.By now, most ambulatory surgery centers have heard of, or have even…