Category: Quality

Becker’s has compiled a list of the hospitals with a CMS 5-star rating for cleanliness.

Amanda Caldwell, BSN, RN, did not intend to step into leadership, but her desire to make things better for patients and serve staff eventually drove her toward such roles.

At some of the nation’s top hospitals, patient safety and quality leaders are exploring strategies to reduce hospital-acquired infections while testing AI capabilities in healthcare.

Legislators have done good work enforcing hospital price transparency, but quality comparison tools are still lacking, Alex Friswold, a medical student at Boston-based Harvard Medical School, and David Bernstein, MD, a resident at four Boston hospitals…

In South Central Pennsylvania, WellSpan Health treats a large population of Plain People, or Amish and Conservative Mennonites. To provide the best care for these communities, the York, Pa.-based system had to get creative. 

National rankings offer patients valuable insights into a health system’s care quality, outcomes and performance, helping them make informed choices. But to what extent do these ratings influence health systems’ strategies and conversations surrounding…

CMS has released a final rule for new patient safety structural measures to be included in the hospital inpatient quality reporting program.

Starting in 2025, a new CMS measure will require public reporting on a hospital’s capability to provide age-appropriate care for older adults, the agency announced Aug. 1.

WellSpan Health, a York, Pa.-based system with nine hospitals and more than 250 care locations, saved seven patients $600,000 in healthcare costs by allocating an extra $3,600. 

In healthcare, there is no shortage of calls to make patient safety and quality improvement efforts more strategic and proactive.