Quality and Safety

A MedPage Today post by what appears to be an informed consumer (and not a health care professional) provides a little peek into the factors that affect health care quality and cost.

Kaiser Permanente has selected three finalists in its Small Hospital, Big Idea hospital design competition. They are Aditazz; Gresham, Smith and Partners; and Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch.

An adversarial relationship between providers and payers is counterproductive to the purpose of healthcare - with patients being caught in the middle.

– A new partnership will seek to market Internet-based personal health records to health insurers for their customers.

Nurse-on-nurse, doctor-on-doctor, doctor-on-nurse - workplace bullying takes many different forms, all of them serious. The effects of workplace bullying are far-reaching and have bottom-line implications for the institutions that overlook or allow such behavior.

Two suburban Chicago healthcare providers are developing what they call a “ground-breaking” joint venture to improve quality care in the region.

There are some who argue that human beings are violent by nature.

The Department of Health and Human Services has launched an initiative to reward hospitals for the quality of care they provide to Medicare beneficiaries.

When Jennifer Searfoss realized she had a urinary tract infection, she made a decision more and more Americans are making: She went to a retail health clinic for care.

Studies have shown that therapy gardens help patients and residents of long-term care facilities experience less stress, lowered blood pressure and improvements in mood and socialization and have a more balanced circadian rhythm. Alzheimer’s patients, meanwhile, experience a decrease in aggressive behavior.