Quality and Safety
On Wednesday the acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank announced the four recipients of the 2012 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which includes one healthcare network.
With the intention of forming a collaborative network of 20 non-competing, not-for-profit health systems in the Southeast, WellStar Health System announced yesterday that it had acquired the trade name, trademark and other assets of the bankrupt Center for Health Transformation (CHT), a for-profit think-tank founded by Newt Gingrich.
There are significant benefits to creating a cross-functional workforce governance model that both promotes trusted employee relationships and enables a collaborative approach, said Kathye Habig Nippert, vice president of workforce management at Catholic Health Partners in Cincinnati.
Optimizing candidate flow is essential to successfully staffing frontline positions said an executive of a human and workforce services company during a session at the KronosWorks 2012 annual conference in Las Vegas Tuesday.
During the keynote address at the KronosWorks 2012 conference in Las Vegas on Monday, Billy Beane, general manager of Major League Baseball's Oakland Athletics, explained to an audience of workforce management professionals how using analytics for hiring new employees is key for business.
Litigation or threatened litigation in the senior care space is an ever-present facet of running a senior care business. An online panel discussion on Nov. 8 addressed ways in which boards of senior care businesses can avoid, or at least manage, legal trouble.
The Everett Clinic and member-owned healthcare co-op Group Health Cooperative announced this week they would strengthen their existing relationship through an alliance that will create an accountable care organization to serve seniors in Group Health's Medicare Advantage plan.
Short-term, contract nurses could be the key to alleviating the projected nationwide nursing shortage, according to a study published in the November issue of Health Affairs. Despite the promising study results, not all industry experts agree that contract nurses are the answer.
Taking care of the elderly is never an easy job, but doing so in a crisis situation such as the double whammy of super storm Sandy and Wednesday's nor'easter is particularly challenging.
Following the devastation of post-tropical storm Sandy last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued blanket waivers of particular requirements that include all hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, hospice and end-stage renal disease facilities in the areas of New York and New Jersey that were strongly affected by the storm.