Community Benefit
A recent study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) suggests that rural hospitals may be able to ensure more high-quality care to their patients if they are able to maintain a lower nurse turnover rate and better practice environments.
A new report examining the state of the skilled nursing industry finds that there have been steady quality improvements since 2003 but more can be done.
There is plenty of disagreement regarding the ROI of workplace wellness programs, but some evidence suggests the savings are there in the long run.
As hospital construction has held steady during the downturn, more administrators and healthcare leaders are weighing the benefits of patient-centered design.
A recent policy analysis from the National Institute for Health Care Reform (NIHCR), written by Carrier and other researchers from the center, reviews the various types of quality measurements and discusses ways in which payers can help make quality information more available, reliable and usable.
Conventional wisdom is that cutting Medicare rates shifts the burden to the private sector, but an intriguing article in Health Affairs reaches a counterintuitive conclusion.
Last fall, St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth, Minn., became the first hospital in the state to make the decision to eliminate the sale of sugar-sweetened beverages from all of its properties.
The healthcare industry is on notice: Fraud recoveries in the healthcare sector are on the rise and whistle-blowers are the biggest weapon in the fight against fraud.
In a session Monday at the American Telemedicine Association's 18th Annual International Meeting & Trade Show titled "The Telemedicine Value Proposition: ROI & Sustainability," Watson laid out the numbers, so far, for UPMC's forays into virtual care since 2009.
A panel of telemedicine industry executives took on the topic of user-friendly design Monday afternoon at the American Telemedicine Association's18th Annual International Meeting & Trade Show. Their conclusion: Healthcare needs to design new methods of care delivery that appeal to the consumer.