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There is a need for greater understanding of the factors that lead to improved process quality and patient safety outcomes in hospitals. This research models shows how transformational leadership, safety climate and continuous quality improvement initiatives are related to objective quality and…
The health care industry is shifting from volume- to value-based payment and care delivery models. Reducing cost of care while implementing changes that makes sense for patients and communities during this time presents many challenges for health leaders.
The “second curve” of population health involves an integrated approach to improving patient and community health. Three Dignity Health hospitals in Bakersfield, California—Mercy Hospital Downtown, Mercy Hospital Southwest and Memorial Hospital—have expanded population…
This article found that county characteristics are independently associated with higher hospital readmission rates, the strongest being measures of access to care. HSR reports that after accounting for patient-risk factors and community socioeconomic factors, as well as accounting for hospital…
The health care field leaves a large environmental footprint, but hospitals and health care systems like Memorial Hermann Health System in southeast Texas are working to change that. In 2006, when the health care system began tracking energy use at its facilities, it discovered its newest buildings…