Quality and Safety
Ana Pujols McKee, MD, has long promoted the importance of patient safety and healthcare quality improvement. Today, she takes those causes to the national level in her role as executive vice president and chief medical officer of the Joint Commission.
The Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI) and its founding health systems announced a set of six challenges for hospitals nationwide aimed at improving the healthcare sector's environmental footprint during a media briefing Tuesday.
Chemotherapy treatments for privately insured patients delivered in an outpatient hospital setting cost 24 percent more than when the treatments are provided in a doctor's office, according to a new study by Avelere Health.
From Twitter accounts to Google Places, social media has become a mainstay in marketing for physician practices. John Lynn, founder of Healthcare Scene blog network and co-founder of Influential Networks, offers seven tips for marketing a physician practice to patients.
Lancaster Pollard closed on a $25 million financing deal with Mahaska Health Partnership in Oskaloosa, Iowa, for a 52,000-square-foot expansion of the healthcare facility, the financial services firm announced Monday.
Mary Naylor has a national reputation for her work as a geriatric scholar and for her examination of the contributions of nurses to the healthcare system.
A report released Thursday by the Missouri Hospital Association (MHA) along with the Missouri Primary Care Association details both the many challenges and opportunities for collaborations between the state's hospitals and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs).
According to research presented last week at the American College of Cardiology's 61st Annual Scientific Session, the likelihood of heart failure patient readmission can be drastically lowered when using a simple checklist before patients leave the hospital.
With patent expirations looming and already passing for some of the nation's bestselling name brand drugs, Big Pharma is facing major revenue challenges in 2012. Here are five blockbuster name brand drugs facing patent expiration.
Teri Fontenot is one of the few women who head a hospital and the one she leads is considered one of the largest freestanding women's hospitals in the country.