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Nation Unprepared for Disease Outbreak

The Ebola outbreak exposed major gaps in the nation’s ability to manage serious infectious disease threats, according to a report from Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Joh

National Patient Safety Foundation Issues New Root Cause Analysis Guidelines

The National Patient Safety Foundation recently released guidelines to help health professionals standardize their use of root cause analysis and renamed the process “RCA2” t

Navigating health care change

A huge transformation of the health care sector is underway, and it’s having a big impact on hospitals and health systems.

Navigating successful health system integration

The decision to align with another health care organization is among the most important, if not the most important, undertakings for a hospital board.

Navigating the health care waters

Over the past few years, and especially this year, many health care trustees are feeling like they are on a whitewater rafting trip.

New AHA chairs calling for health care has deep roots

A chance moment kick-started Eugene Woods’ career as a health care leader more than 25 years ago, and a simple health care–related accident that took his aunt Carmen’s life ye

New board members: Orientation 101

Few things are more satisfying to new board members than the realization that they have not only made a smart decision to join a board but that they can immediately begin to make meaningful co

New members of the AHAs Committee on Governance

The American Hospital Association announced appointments to the 2016 Committee on Governance, a specialty committee of the board that provides input for the AHA’s policy development, leads in

New payment models coming thick and fast

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last year set the ambitious goal of tying 30 percent of Medicare fee-for-service payments to quality or value through alternative payment models by

New payment models: Are you ready?

When describing how care delivery differs under value-based payment versus traditional fee for service, Douglas Pogue, M.D., points to the way physicians’ mindsets are changing in the BJC Acc