These days, healthcare organizations are under tremendous pressure to improve every facet of care delivery. The need to improve is often a consequence of the Medicare Conditions of Participation, ...

Process improvement leaders from Geisinger Health System, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Henry Ford Health System, Freemont Rideout Health Group, and Covenant Health System share Lean, Six ...

Each year many hospitals lose millions of dollars due to denied or rejected claims, with especially significant lost opportunity from outpatient infusion claims. These denials and rejections are often ...

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New York’s Bellevue Hospital performs thousands of the lucrative surgeries a year, even on Rikers Island prisoners and other inappropriate patients. By Jessica Silver-Greenberg Sarah Kliff and Aimee ...

Objective. To evaluate whether the use of standard admission orders for patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is associated with better hospital quality of care. Design. Secondary ...

The positive intention of health professionals is to make any hospital stay as pleasant and comfortable as possible for the patient. There is a major – and seldom discussed – difficulty in achieving ...

Nearly every patient who enters a hospital comes in contact with its linens: towels, sheets, patient gowns and more. And while a number of organizations have guidelines about how such linens should be ...