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Rethinking the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

Reducing readmissions is an important way to improve quality and lower health care spending, and hospitals are making significant progress.

Patient, and Patience, Lost

This was a classic case of staff-centered care.

Policy Management Supports Risk and Compliance Oversight

Hospitals and other health care facilities create and maintain thousands of policy documents.

Hospitals work to intervene, break the cycle of violence

He was a healthy 15-year-old boy living in St. Louis, wasn’t in a gang, got good grades and stayed out of trouble.

The healing arts

Imagine a care setting in which psychiatric patients can move to music with guidance from a principal dancer in a ballet company; in which a cellist plays in outpatient waiting rooms, distracting t

Hospitals and food insecurity

As health care moves toward a population health paradigm that focuses on keeping people healthy, hospitals and health systems are recognizing the significance of the social determinants of health.

Turning to nurses for design

In her book Notes on Nursing, originally published in 1859, Florence Nightingale stressed the importance of a number of environmental factors that are now understood to be critical to