The 50 best hospitals in the U.S.: Is one near you?
Filed under: Hospital Management, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views
Health Grades has released this year’s list of the top 50 hospitals in the country. Read more
Report: Hospital quality on the rise
Filed under: Health care/Treatment trends, Hospital Management, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views
Good news from the Joint Commission’s latest report on hospital quality: Significant gains were made across the board on key indicators of care quality. Read more
Quality measures show improvement
Filed under: Health care/Treatment trends, Hospital Management, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Practice Management
A new report from the Joint Commission shows that hospitals’ efforts to improve key quality scores are definitely working. Read more
Hospital’s quality report cards fail to force improvements
Filed under: Health care/Treatment trends, Hospital Management, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Practice Management
Publicly airing data showing how well — or poorly — hospitals perform seems like it would spur even the high performing organizations to improve scores. But it doesn’t. Read more
Why are uninsured twice as likely to die in ER?
Filed under: Ethics, Health care/Treatment trends, In this week's e-newsletter, Insurance, Latest News & Views
Health care providers may appear to be giving the same standard of care to insured and uninsured patients. But new research shows patient outcomes are quite different. Read more
Improved quality of care also boosts staff morale
Filed under: Hospital Management, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Practice Management
Initiatives to improve the quality of care can have many more benefits than “just” better patient outcomes. Read more
Major hospital, insurers combine forces to cut costs
Filed under: Health care/Treatment trends, Healthcare Finance, Hospital Management, In this week's e-newsletter, Insurance, Latest News & Views
A pediatric hospital and four major insurers are co-operating in a unique new initiative to stem the increases in children’s health care costs while improving the quality of care. Read more
Health reform jumps first hurdle, but has anything changed?
Filed under: Ethics, Healthcare Finance, Healthcare Reform News, In this week's e-newsletter, Insurance, Latest News & Views
While politicians continue to make noise over the recent passage of a health reform bill in the House, the situation health care providers face in the trenches seems unlikely to change much. Read more
