Quality and Safety

Mayo Clinic announced on Thursday the launch of the Mayo Clinic Care Network, a provider network that will benefit from having access to Mayo Clinic doctors and other resources aimed at improving patient care for network members.

In its 2011 annual report on quality and safety released Wednesday, The Joint Commission named the 405 best performing hospitals in the United States.

We have a unique opportunity in this country to reduce healthcare costs and improve care at the same time.

Former Justice lawyer and prosecutor Leon Rodriguez is appointed director of the Office of Civil Rights.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with several key initial partners launched Million Hearts, an initiative announced Tuesday that aims to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes over the next five years.

In the 10 years since 9/11, hospitals and healthcare facilities have made major strides in their disaster preparedness efforts.

Increasingly, questions are being raised about the overtesting of older patients, part of a growing skepticism about the widespread practice of routine screening for cancer and other ailments of people in their 70s, 80s and even 90s.

One of the country's largest Medicaid insurers, AmeriHealth Mercy, has announced plans to equip more than 150 primary care physicians in Pennsylvania with mobile devices that will have access to their patients' health plan-based information, enabling them to keep track of prescriptions and receive important clinical alerts at the point of care.

Aetna and post-acute care provider Genesis HealthCare have announced an incentive-based contract aimed at rewarding Genesis for creating a coordinated care approach that reduces hospital readmissions for Aetna members.

There has been much heated national discussion surrounding credit rating agencies since Standard & Poor’s downgraded the sovereign credit rating of the United States.