Category: Quality

New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System has opened a new center to care for patients with complex chronic conditions, such as long COVID-19 and Lyme disease. 

A researcher at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor at Worcester-based University of Massachusetts Medical School have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine recently named Nadia Hansel, MD, physician-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. At the same time, she was appointed director of the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In …

Beginning Dec. 1, hospitals will be eligible to apply for a new credential offered by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. 

In February, leaders of Cleveland-based University Hospitals realized two intensive care units at one of the system’s 21 hospitals were not achieving zero harm. After encouraging front-line workers to find their own solution, the units reported “breath…

In recent years, debates over scopes of practice and titles have intensified among associations representing physicians, advanced practice providers and other healthcare professionals.

For Pooja Vyas, DO, the big question for hospitalists, case managers, social workers, dietitians, pharmacists and nurses is, “What is the reason the patient cannot go home today?”

In the healthcare quality space, clinicians must track a plethora of metrics and measures, creating an environment where it can be easy to lose focus of ongoing priorities.

Similar to 2023, hospitals are most frequently cited for deficiencies in patient rights, according to CMS data obtained by Becker’s. 

Hospitals are faring better on key quality and safety measures than they were before the pandemic, according to a new report from The American Hospital Association and Vizient.