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Policy Management Supports Risk and Compliance Oversight

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

The costs of violence

Violence Report examines cost of community violence Community violence cost U.S.

Combes to Retire as CHG President in Fall

John Combes, M.D., president of the American Hospital Association’s Center for Healthcare Governance and the AHA’s chief medical officer and senior vice president, will retire in Octo

AHA seeks to strengthen services for trustees

Governance AHA seeks to strengthen services for trustees The American Hospital Association board of trustees in July approved a plan to strengthen the AHA’s role in s

HRET Effort Reduces Infections

Patient safety

How trustees can improve alignment by overseeing physician compensation

Relationships between health systems and physicians have undergone significant change in recent years as the health care field transforms into a value-based system of quality, patient satisfaction

Rural hospital takes advanced payment path

A rural Oregon hospital, Sky Lakes Medical Center, is jumping into the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Advanced Alternative Payment Models, which are the elite track o

5 ways to improve care for older patients

Last year marked the 50th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid. These two programs (including state funding) represent 37 cents of every dollar spent on health care in the United States.

Reimbursement reform: Educating physicians

It was standing room only at a January physician education event in South Carolina as 140-plus providers in the Palmetto Health Quality Collaborative gathered from around the state’s Midlands regio

Eight Survival Strategies for Nonprofit Boards

SNAPSHOT Stand-alone, nonprofit hospitals seem to bear the brunt of an unfavorable financial climate.