Jeff Lagasse
All types of hospitals made the list, from small community facilities to major teaching hospitals, delivering satisfaction and operational efficiency.
More older adults in the ED is a bad sign for patients but also for providers, who often struggle with costs and utilization.
End-of-shift handoffs pose a substantial patient safety risk, and have been linked with delays in diagnosis, medication errors and longer stays.
Just 35 percent of hospitals acquired from 2012 to 2014 switched to the acquiring systems' EHR vendor following consolidation.
Supply chain management is a medium or high priority yet just 13 percent say it's a top investment priority.
Investing in social determinants of health holds the potential to provide ROI in the form of fewer readmissions-based penalties.
The move is designed to help the facilities struggling with a declining number of patients and a shifting payer mix.
These providers have created diverse models of care that incorporate use of patient-centered technologies with measurable outcomes.
Paying employees between $25 and $500 for using a transparency tool can result in modest savings of about 2.1 percent.
A DBT-inclusive bundled price was associated with significantly reduced recall rates, 13 percent versus 9.4 percent.