Quality & Patient Safety
Record Number of Transplants
33,606: Number of organ transplants performed in the U.S. in 2016
8.5%: Increase over 2015
19.8%: Increase since 2012
Source: United Network for Organ Sharing, January 2017
For a long time, behavioral health patients have been marginalized in the nation’s health care system. This has been due in part to lack of insurance coverage and the low priority placed on caring for these patients. Closure of many inpatient psychiatric units, reduction in…
Amid increasing security risks and growing pressure from regulatory agencies — including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration — a vast majority of hospitals have adopted training programs on managing aggressive…
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Story by Beth Burmahl with data by Jamie Morgan and Suzanna Hoppszallern
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Amid increasing security risks and growing pressure from regulatory agencies — including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration…
America’s hospitals are committed to sharing meaningful, accurate hospital quality information with the patients they serve. Hospitals also support well-designed pay-for-performance programs that can help move the health care delivery system from volume to value.
At the same time, however,…
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Three percent of patients admitted to children’s hospitals are at least 18 years old, and trends indicate that their numbers will only grow.
As these children with once-fatal diagnoses such as congenital heart disease survive well into adulthood, a treatment…
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An ever-increasing amount of data is available for health care leaders to use in making decisions about drugs, devices and procedures.
The flood of data can lead to poor results if it's not interpreted correctly.
Board members need to be alert to randomness…
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 October after almost 12 years leading the association’s governance and physician leadership efforts.