Legislation to create a Medicare value-based purchasing program for post-acute care “is too narrowly focused on cutting provider payment rather than promoting ‘value’,” AHA said in a letter today t
The American Organization of Nurse Executives has chosen as its next president-elect Joan Clark, senior vice president and system chief nurse executive at Texas Health Resources in Arlington.
Hospitals’ performance on most quality measures was improving before the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program began in October 2012 and did not noticeably change during the first two years of th
Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg and PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at Riverbend in Springfield, OR, treated victims in yesterday’s shooting at a community college campus in Roseburg
Efforts to improve quality of care for patients in minority-serving and racially integrated hospitals should focus on the lowest performers, according to a new
The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee still plans to propose legislation this year to advance the interoperability of electronic health records, one of many reasons the admin