The U.S. Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee earlier this week approved the Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act (S. 1557), legislation that would reauthorize the Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) program through fiscal year 2018. The...
Thirty-three percent of Joint Commission-accredited hospitals reporting accountability measure data for 2012 are Top Performer hospitals, delivering evidence-based care processes in the right way and at the right time, according to The Joint Commission’s latest Annual Report on Quality and...
A program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in Nashville is making significant inroads in helping physicians improve the way they practice medicine or change behaviors after patients complain about them, either because of their actions or their clinical work. If they are having trouble...
From advanced practice professionals to telemedicine providers, The Medical Staff’s Guide to Overcoming Competence Assessment Challenges will walk you through every step of collecting adequate performance data to assess practitioner competence. This book addresses many of the common...
With the temporary federal budget deal ending the 16-day government shutdown, state and federal officials have some catching up to do to make up for time lost. At the state level, some health departments will be dealing with a backlog of federal inspections postponed during the shutdown. Some...
The Leapfrog Group’s fourth safety report card for general acute care hospitals, released Wednesday, shows little overall improvement in how well providers are preventing patient harm. A total of 2,539 hospitals were graded on 15 structural measures, such as whether the hospital has a full-time...