Quality & Patient Safety
Cases involving mental disorders and their associated expenditures increased more than those of heart disease, cancer or any of the other top five costliest conditions, according to an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality report. The number of patients treated for mental disorders…
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.
Florida's Lee Memorial Health System is using several strategies to connect emergency department patients with mental health and/or substance abuse problems to the outpatient care they need.
Snapshot
Years of deep cuts to mental health care services have left ill-equipped hospital emergency departments struggling to care for untreated patients. Three organizations confronted the problem head-on by integrating behavioral health into primary and specialty care, screening and supporting…
As the health care field continues to shift its focus from volume to value, leaders from three major academic health systems are asking surgeons hospitals to minimize the number of patients who undergo certain surgeries to prevent complications linked to insufficient practice.
Participants in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid’s Independence at Home demonstration saved more than $25 million in the payment model’s first performance year while delivering high-quality patient care in the home, CMS recently announced.
The National Patient Safety Foundation recently released guidelines to help health professionals standardize their use of root cause analysis and renamed the process “RCA2” to emphasize the fact that preventing harm requires both analysis and action to be taken. The guidelines offer…
The first step on the high-reliability journey is a commitment to transparency within the organization and with patients and family members.
Health care transformation calls for engaging hospitals, trustees and communities to ensure that all patients receive high-quality care. Hospital leaders need to consider a variety of issues as they meet future challenges, and several key issues link to equity of care. Providing…
Every day, it seems that a new hospital quality scorecard is released, sparking news stories about how hospitals compare with one another and against nationwide benchmarks. For years, U.S. News & World Report has ranked “Best Hospitals” in the country by state and…