Category: Quality

Saint Luke’s Health System in Kansas City, Mo., recently recruited two Moxi robots to deliver medications and hospital supplies to patients, CBS affiliate KCTV5 reported Sept. 14. 

Over a 6-year period 25 percent of U.S. health visits were conducted by a non-physician, according to Harvard Medical School researchers. 

Financial stress, labor issues and employee burnout are challenging chief medical officers at hospitals and health systems. Bill Bornstein, MD, PhD, told Becker’s these crises can lead to revolutionary change. 

With quality and safety underpinning nearly every aspect of healthcare work, one might assume hospitals and health systems have well-established ways of finding out what their total investments in quality and safety look like. Not so, leaders told Beck…

Since opening in December 2021, there has not been a single hospital-acquired infection at Mon Health Marion Neighborhood Hospital in White Hall, W. Va.. 

The rollout of Mass General Brigham’s new quality strategy comes with a subtle culture change — one where those working at the organization should always assume that there is room for improvement. 

The Leapfrog Group, known for its annual hospital grade rankings, has announced the launch of a new hospital recognition program specifically for facilities and systems that exhibit a commitment to the care and safety of inpatients with diabetes.

Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center has become the first hospital in the U.S. to earn The Joint Commission’s new Health Care Equity Certification, which recognizes facilities that make health equity a strategic priority, leading to more equitab…

The Joint Commission has acquired the National Quality Forum with the goal of consolidating quality measures.

Monitors beeping, equipment shuffling, and patients, nurses and physicians coordinating care can make hospitals uncomfortably loud places for individuals both with or without hearing disorders — heightening anxiety and causing headaches, irritability a…