Quality and Safety
In the early days of the latest incarnation of the patient-centered medical home, William Warning II, MD, the program director of a family medicine residency program, recognized an opportunity, and he wasn’t going to sit back and let it pass him – or his program – by.
With a growing focus on continuity of care across settings, the Hospital Corporation of America North Texas Division (HCA) and First Choice Emergency Room, a freestanding emergency room system, have formed a partnership to increase access in Dallas-Ft. Worth region.
The demand for in-home care is growing by leaps and bounds, putting pressure on the home care industry to produce enough workers to meet the demand and provide high-quality care. A webinar on Tuesday addressed some of the ways the industry can ensure it meets the needs of an aging population.
According to a study published last month in Health Affairs, wellness programs linked to health plan enrollment don't seem to lower overall healthcare costs, however, they have been shown to reduce hospitalizations.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) announced that it will evaluate a new, more sensitive measurement tool that is intended to improve the care and the outcomes of patients with heart disease and diabetes.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) on Friday debated how to change the payment method for chronically critically ill patients in acute care and long-term care hospitals so they are more accurate and based on patient needs.
The U.S. healthcare system is going to have to gain control over unnecessary spending said Don Berwick and Rosemary Gibson during their respective keynotes at a conference last week for healthcare stakeholders in Maine.
For several years now Truman Medical Centers (TMC), a two-hospital system based in Kansas City, Mo., has been finding ways to encourage healthy living for its high proportion of patients in the community with chronic health problems like diabetes, hypertension, congestive heart failure and obesity. TMC's latest effort? A healthy foods grocery store.
With recent studies indicating that music reduces agitation and depression in people with dementia and Alzheimer's disease, long-term care operators have begun adding music therapy programs to the services they offer residents. One operator is finding that using music therapy is benefitting the business as well as the residents.
A Maine-based initiative of a national campaign to rein in unnecessary care began to take shape Wednesday at a daylong conference focused on making the state the first in the nation to achieve the Triple Aim.