Higher-ups within HCA Healthcare place pressure on staff in hospitals to persuade patients’ families to initiate end-of-life care, which can limit treatments for patients but curb in-hospital mortality rates and length of stay for the hospital operator…
A quality initiative at NYC Health + Hospitals reduced unnecessary medication use in patients with severely high blood pressure, The Joint Commission said June 15.
When The Joint Commission arrives on-site — surprise! — at your hospital for your next triennial survey, will you be ready?
Twenty years ago, chief quality officers weren’t a core part of a hospital’s C-suite team. But today, it’s hard to imagine how an executive team could function without one, especially in a healthcare landscape where reimbursement is increasingly tied t…
Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Hospital spent more than $5.6 million on quality metric reporting in 2018, according to a study published June 6 in JAMA Network.
Racial disparities in rates of adverse events persist even at the top-rated hospitals for safety, a new report from The Leapfrog Group shows.
Rural obstetrics, labor and delivery care is at risk as hospitals increasingly close obstetrics services.
Ultrasound is one of the most common procedures in the United States, with more than 140 million ultrasound procedures performed every year.1 These procedures are highly variable, spanning many areas of medicine and involving different techniques, clin…
Washington state recently passed a bill focused on ensuring hospital staffing standards, but nurses and unions say an issue remains unsolved: the backlog of staffing complaints, according to a May 29 report from The Columbian and Crosscut.
Think of all the once-worrisome ailments that are now afterthoughts thanks to clinical trials.
