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By Jennifer Towne Patient safety and quality initiatives in a hospital unit are one thing. Developing a system-wide approach to improving patient safety is a whole other thing. Leaders at Cherry Hill, N.J.-based Kennedy Health set about to do just that – decrease hospital-…
About half of U.S. residents without health insurance are eligible for Medicaid or subsidized coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplace, according to a study released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The share of uninsured residents eligible for those two forms of assistance…
Prescription opioid disorders related to non-medical use increased by 0.3 percentage points among U.S. adults between 2003 and 2013, while related deaths increased by 3.3 per 100,000, according to a study in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association. However, the share of…
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute and University of Kentucky are looking for 300 more hospitals to complete their survey on hospital efforts to improve care transitions, part of Project ACHIEVE.
The Illinois Hospital Association and Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council have agreed to merge in January, the organizations announced yesterday.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services expects in March to make an early partial payment to eligible health plans under the transitional reinsurance program for the 2015 benefit year, in part due to surplus 2014 funds.
The Obama administration last week launched a public-private campaign to equip the public with knowledge and tools to stop life-threatening bleeding in emergency situations.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response and National Library of Medicine have redesigned their website on Radiation Emergency Medical Management. The new site adds behavioral health resources and material for first…
The AHA’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative will offer a free webinar Wednesday at 12 p.m. ET on “Innovations for Eliminating Health Care Disparities.” The webinar will feature representatives from the 2015 AHA Equity of Care Award winners, Henry Ford Health…
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission today discussed policy options to preserve access to emergency care in rural areas in the wake of recent rural hospital closures. Staff presented two potential models that would allow rural prospective payment system and critical access hospitals to convert…