Although hospital service volumes decreased significantly in 2020, health system leaders expect most service volumes to rebound by 2022, a new survey found.
Particularly during the early phase of the coronavirus pandemic, healthcare providers experienced sharp declines in service...
I guess this week’s entry (as it appears that Spring is actually going to spring) falls into the “a little bit of this, a little bit of that” category;...
By the end of the study, Truman reported that its patient outcomes had improved, low-harm errors were being reported more often, and that quality improvement education had become self-sustaining within the facility.
What does it take to turn an already well-performing hospital into a high reliability organization (HRO)? In 2016, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) decided to undertake a three-year project to find out.
For the project, they used the high reliability hospital (HRH) model developed...
If your healthcare system accreditation is tied to a long-term care facility or nursing home, be aware that the Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) is still going state by state to audit select facilities on-site for adherence to life safety and emergency...
NCSA executive director Kelvin Coleman recently spoke with HealthLeaders about the continuing threat posed by criminals who see healthcare continuing to be one of the biggest, most lucrative targets for their ever-increasing cyber-intrusion capabilities.
We knew it was going to happen eventually, but our friends in Chicago have made it official (just in time for the implementation of Daylight Savings Time—...
If there is one lesson to be taken from 2020, it’s that waiting until a problem evolves into a crisis is an exceedingly bad idea. While the world still deals with the effect of COVID-19, there are many other problems that require our attention now lest they spiral out of control—from ...
