Today’s skilled nursing facilities face many challenges in the delivery of high-quality and safe care for vulnerable patient populations. Significantly, the very limited resources available in ...

When paired with Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) and leadership training focused on communication, deeply involved coaches were able to support staff to move the needle on quality ...

MSU Health Care CMO Mark Smith identifies clinician burnout as the biggest barrier to sustained quality improvement and patient safety.

A study released Thursday by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) shows that hospital quality improvement programs increase strain on nurses, aggravating an already difficult nursing ...

CNO-turned-executive director Kerri Scanlon remains passionate about healthcare excellence. As a nurse leader at Northwell Health in New York for more than 25 years, including chief nursing officer ...

The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement program was associated with improved quality of skilled nursing facilities in hospital referral networks for patients undergoing surgery for joint replacement ...

Quality measurement is an important tool for incentivizing improvement in the quality of health care. Most quality measurement efforts do not explicitly target health equity. Although some measurement ...

Rachel M. Werner ( [email protected]) is a staff physician at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center and an assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, University of ...

HRSA Quality Improvement Awards exceed $700,000 in recognition of high quality and improvements MONTPELIER, VT – Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in Vermont were recognized with Quality ...

The desire to improve the quality of care and patient outcomes is both an aspiration and a necessity for the NHS, while pressure ulcers have long been considered a preventable harm. However, despite ...

Eight hospitals have received the Vermont Oxford Network Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement for their work caring for infants. The award is given to VON member teams who demonstrate ...