Quality and Safety
Unfortunately, thousands of people in need of mental health treatment are often being dropped at the emergency departments of their local hospitals, where under federal law doctors must evaluate these patients despite the limitations on ER-based mental health treatment.
California Hospital Association is staunchly opposed to Assembly bill, saying that finding the right placement for a patient is much more complex than identifying an empty bed, and a registry could actually hinder efforts to get patients appropriate treatment.
Executives at University of Rochester Medical Center are so pleased with how the federal government's bundled payment joint replacement program is working that they want to expand it beyond Medicare, James Garnham, who heads bundled payments for the system, said Monday at a hearing on Capitol Hill.
A husband has started a Care2 petition calling for the removal of the leaders of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital after his wife allegedly contracted stage 4 cancer as a result of a procedure she underwent there.
Medical errors are estimated to be the third-highest cause of death in the country. Experts and patient safety advocates are trying to change that. But at least one of the tools that's been considered a fix isn't yet working as well as it should, suggests a report released Thursday.
These hospitals rank in the top 10 percent of all hospitals evaluated for their excellent performance in safeguarding patients from serious, potentially preventable complications.
Healthgrades has named 448 hospitals with its 2016 Outstanding Patient Experience Award based on patient survey responses to the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems surveys.
Reviews of healthcare providers on social media sites like Yelp are filling gaps in traditional ratings programs driven by the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey, a new study in Health Affairs claims.
Despite recent attention to rising pharmaceutical prices, a new study claims the total costs of treating patients with cancer in the United States have risen no faster than overall costs for Medicare and commercial insurance in the past decade.
As patient-centered medical care has taken hold in recent years, there's been a growing interest in finding ways to use outcomes reported by individuals to help guide care.