Kelsey Brimmer
For several years now Truman Medical Centers (TMC), a two-hospital system based in Kansas City, Mo., has been finding ways to encourage healthy living for its high proportion of patients in the community with chronic health problems like diabetes, hypertension, congestive heart failure and obesity. TMC's latest effort? A healthy foods grocery store.
Two recent studies on nurse understaffing and nurse fatigue have revealed that these two prominent issues negatively impact the quality of care delivery, patient and employee satisfaction and operational costs in hospitals.
Participation in a national hospital project has shown one small Maine hospital the importance of business intelligence tools as it adapts to a value-based business model.
In the last few years, it's become increasingly important for healthcare organizations to create some sort of strategy that is focused on becoming a successful social business, according to Andrew Dixon, senior vice president of marketing and operations at Igloo Software.
According to a recent study published in the American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC), researchers from America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) found that from 2008 to 2010 inpatient hospital prices increased by 8.2 percent each year with a wide variation in price levels and growth rates from state to state.
In a study published online Wednesday in JAMA Surgery, researchers calculated that during 2009, six technologically advanced and minimally-invasive surgical procedures contributed a cost savings and workplace value of more than $11 billion.
Even though 2 percent reductions are scheduled to hit Medicare payments due to sequestration cuts beginning on April 1, a recent Standard & Poor's (S&P) report said the futures outlook for for-profit hospitals is stable.
Premier Research Institute Vice President and Chief Scientist Eugene A. Kroch and two hospital executives shared what they believe to be the top characteristics associated with a healthcare organization's readiness to form an accountable care organization (ACO) during a webinar on Thursday.
While nursing students who receive a bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) and those students who receive an associate degree in nursing (ADN) are both fulfilling the educational requirements to become registered nurses (RNs), a BSN may offer nurses a greater opportunity for career advancement.
According to a recent Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) report, there has been little progress at reducing hospital readmissions for Medicare patients. That report was the focus of a moderated discussion with national healthcare leaders on Feb. 13.