Quality and Safety
HealthGrades, a provider of consumer healthcare information, named America's best 50 and 100 hospitals for 2012.
On Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new initiative aimed at avoiding expensive patient readmissions.
Pacific Gateway, a regional workforce development agency in Long Beach, Calif., was awarded $2,816,000 from the U.S. Department of Labor to upgrade skills, certifications and training needs in the healthcare sector on Tuesday.
As part of The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services effort to dramatically reduce hospital readmissions by 2013, the agency has announced 23 new organizations that will participate in its Community-based Care Transitions Program (CCTP).
According to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System, there are stark differences between communities state and nationwide when it comes to healthcare access, cost and quality.
Aetna and the Connecticut State Medical Society Independent Practice Association have announced a collaborative care model that will incorporate more than 500 CSMS-IPA physicians.
A new report prepared for the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System offers a series of recommendations to help shore up the finances of safety-net hospitals and promote their ability to provide high-quality care to low-income, vulnerable patients once the health reform law is fully implemented.
The trend of MRI and ultrasound being used together for more effective diagnosis is cited as a major reason for growth in sales of both modalities, according to a recent report from healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information.
As the United States and Canada emerged from the Great Recession, charitable pledges to nonprofit healthcare organizations slowed in fiscal year 2010, jeopardizing the ability of healthcare systems in both countries to generate philanthropic funding necessary to meet their long-term, construction, equipment and patient needs.
A new whitepaper from the Center for Progressive Reform says medical tort reform won't provide significant savings, since the costs of malpractice insurance and paying injured patients amounts to only 0.3 percent of total healthcare costs each year.