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Creating a High-Reliability Organization
Ascension Health has some lofty goals: cut serious safety events by 40 percent by 2014. This comes after preventable deaths dropped by more than 1,500 patients annually.
Impact of Bundled Payments—Opportunities and Threats to Nurses
While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behaviors, bundled payments—single, all-inclusive payments for multiple services across an epis
Nurses at the Forefront of Change
As the largest segment of the health care workforce, with more than 3 million professionals, nurses touch every facet of care � and their impact has been mighty.
Is Your IT Staff Getting Fried
Hospital IT departments are facing what one executive calls a 'tsunami of activities, expectations and challenges' and many CIOs are concerned about staff burnout.
A Promising New Approach to Creating Change
Success in strategic organizational initiatives depends on changing the way people work together.
The X Questions: Strategy for the Next Health Care
Ten existential questions will make the difference between limping into the future and soaring to new heights.
Hospital Readmission--Not Just a Measure of Quality
The current understanding of what drives readmission focuses on the quality of the inpatient discharge process and on patients' health status.
Engaging Physicians in Predictive Care Paths
Health care executives have to ensure that new care models are implemented effectively and improved continuously.
Hospitals4Health
Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient care to all the patients that access their services.
Innovative Medicaid Initiatives to Improve Service Delivery and Quality of Care: A Look at Five State Initiatives
This brief, based on site visits from Nov. 2009 through March 2010, highlights care coordination and related efforts in five states: Alabama, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington State.