Quality & Patient Safety
Hospitals continue to improve patient care, according to results from the second round of the AHA/Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) Hospital Engagement Network (HEN), part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Partnership for Patients initiative.
Hospitals continue to improve patient care, according to results from the second round of the AHA/Health Research & Educational Trust Hospital Engagement Network, part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Partnership for Patients initiative.
Hospitals continue to make great progress in their journey to improve patient care, according to new results released today by the ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association (AHA)/Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET).
This webinar explains the holistic people-process-place approach to satisfaction and shows health care leaders how to use the health care physical environment—an often overlooked resource—to improve the patient experience.
Medicare 30-day readmission rates declined in 49 states between 2010 and 2015, resulting in an estimated 565,000 fewer hospital readmissions, according to data released yesterday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Rates fell by more than 5% in 43 states and by more than 10%…
Hospital leaders yesterday urged their federal legislators to support certain provisions critical to patients and hospitals before adjourning this legislative session.
They urged federal legislators to continue to encourage the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide…
Hospital leaders today urged their federal legislators to support certain provisions critical to patients and hospitals before adjourning this legislative session. Specifically, they urged federal legislators to continue to encourage the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide…
Today, hundreds of hospital leaders are reaching out to their members of Congress to talk about the challenges facing their patients and communities.What are the issues facing hospitals and health systems today? Recent developments regarding the so-called site-neutral payment provisions included in…
AHA letter to the CMS and FDA clarify our position regarding the business requirements for capturing a unique device identifier on health care claims.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is conducting through Sept. 30 a second review and corrections period for the fiscal year 2017 Hospital Acquired Condition Reduction Program due to an error in calculating Clostridium difficile infection performance during the first two quarters of…