Richard Pizzi

The “patient experience” is a vital quality metric for hospitals, and healthcare executives are quickly learning that it also affects an institution’s bottom line.

In testimony before the New Jersey Senate's Health and Human Services Committee last month, New Jersey Hospital Association president Betsy Ryan said imposing rigid nurse-to-patient staffing ratios is not a proven way to accomplish quality goals.

Give or take a few meager months, employment in the U.S. healthcare sector has grown throughout the recession.

Many Americans with health insurance aren't embracing evidence-based healthcare because of misconceptions and a lack of knowledge, according to a new study in Health Affairs.

Online advertised vacancies for healthcare practitioners, technical occupations and support personnel fell in May, though they remained above pre-recession levels, according to a report released this week.

As many as 13,000 registered nurses from hospitals throughout California issued a one-day strike notice Friday over patient care shortcomings at their facilities.

AHA Solutions, a subsidiary of the American Hospital Association, has launched the 2010 version of its Patient Flow Challenges Assessment, a survey for hospitals that offers insights into patient throughput and capacity management issues.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has instructed its contractors to hold claims containing services paid under the Medicare physician fee schedule for the first 10 business days of June.

Pediatric hospitals can employ several techniques to alleviate crowding, but often fail to implement ways to better manage patient flow, according to research by The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

The expansion of Medicaid under healthcare reform will significantly increase the number of people covered by the program, with the federal government picking up the overwhelming majority of the cost, according to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation.