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Collaborative Leader Takes Home Shirley Ann Munroe Award

The American Hospital Association last month awarded its 2015 Shirley Ann Munroe Leadership Award to Vince Oliver, CEO and superint

How and Why to Increase Board Diversity

Board diversity has lagged behind the growth of increasingly diverse communities. This article looks at the advantage of having a diverse board and how to begin having discussions around building one and doing the work to create a diverse board.

Rural ACO Builds on Quality Programs

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After years of preparation, nine rural hospitals and physician groups form an accountable care organization to focus on prevention.

5 inconsistent terminologies that hurt health care

Hospitals and health systems throughout the country face many of the same challenges.

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

Eliminating Patient Harm

SNAPSHOT Hospitals that strive for high reliability aim to drive out the possibility of error and reject incremental improvements.

The Power of Rural Alliances

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IOM Proposes Priority Health Measures

Widespread application of a limited set of standardized measures could reduce the burden of unnecessary measurement of health and health care, and align the incentives and actions of se

Charleston Area Medical Center Creates Culture of Quality in Winning Baldrige Award

This year’s winner of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in the health care category, Charleston (W.Va.) Area Medical Center