This study demonstrates that the implementation of a discharge navigation program led to earlier writing of discharge orders and patient release from the hospital. Objectives: The aim of this study ...

Due to changing conditions in the healthcare environment, many hospitals believe it is time that they move away from independence and toward some form of a transaction. A transaction has the potential ...

Improving efficiency is complex and requires a multimodal approach. Health information systems, patient feedback, and multidisciplinary teams are components that can improve clinical processes.

Process improvement leaders from Geisinger Health System, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Henry Ford Health System, Freemont Rideout Health Group, and Covenant Health System share Lean, Six ...

These days, healthcare organizations are under tremendous pressure to improve every facet of care delivery. The need to improve is often a consequence of the Medicare Conditions of Participation, ...

While hospitals do not appeal many denials from recovery audit contractors, those denials that are appealed often lead to successful results. Across the nation, hospitals are appealing roughly ...

Even as health reform changes the way providers are paid and deliver care, most still base their annual budgets on the traditional, fee-for-service model. But that could be changing, as some are ...

Sublette County opened its first hospital in September, a $73.8 million complex, in September and has been “burning” through ...

State health officials adopted new rules last week that loosen the review criteria for health care construction projects, aiming to reform what providers say is an arduous process to get the state’s ...

The process of appealing hospital administrative penalties issued by the California Department of Public Health sometimes can take years, Payers & Providers reports. DPH levies the penalties for ...

Dr. Henry Lewis, former dean of FAMU's College of Pharmacy, a past interim FAMU president and former county commissioner, also spoke out at the gathering.