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BRIEF FOR THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ET AL. AS AMICI CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF FEDERAL PETITIONERS
The AHA, AAMC, CHA, FAH, NACH and NAPH favor enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). And it is why this Court should promptly grant the Governments petition for certiorari and hold that the ACA is a constitutional exercise of Congresss Commerce Clause power.
The current understanding of what drives readmission focuses on the quality of the inpatient discharge process and on patients' health status. Health care administrators have relied on this narrow framework to conclude that the best approach to reduce readmission rates is to improve the…
Steve Riney, Chief Information Officer at Methodist Medical Center of Illinois in Peoria, talks to H&HN Senior Editor Suzanna Hoppszallern about how his system's ACO partnership with Caterpillar aims to improve health outcomes for thousands of the manufacturer's employees while…
John Combes, M.D., president of the Center for Healthcare Governance, talks to H&HN Senior Online Editor Haydn Bush about the 'On the CUSP: Stop BSI' program to eliminate central line-associated bloodstream infections in all U.S. hospitals by addressing cultural and technical issues and keeping…
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Member Conference Call: CMS Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative, October 18, 2011
The eighth biennial survey of ACPE members identifies key trends and factors driving today's physician executive compensation and serves as a reference resource for physician executives and health care organizations developing leadership roles for physicians. There is a cost to view this…
Ascension Health has some lofty goals: cut serious safety events by 40 percent by 2014. This comes after preventable deaths dropped by more than 1,500 patients annually. Jane Jeffries, editor of Trustee, spoke with Ciro Sumaya, M.D., chair of Ascension's board quality committee about the drive…
Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than caring for veterans with other medical conditions, costing more than $12 billion in 2007, according to a new RAND Corporation study. The study found that while the proportion of veterans who received the…