To drive performance improvements within its trauma program and the state designation process, Tacoma, Wash.-based Mary Bridge Children's Hospital enlisted the help of Philips healthcare ...

The following is excerpted from Performance Improvement for Healthcare: Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management by Bahadir Inozu, Dan Chauncey, Vickie Kamataris, and Charles ...

Some hospitals were able to outperform others in a commercial insurer episode-based incentive program, but there was little evidence of global reductions in episode spending. Objectives: To evaluate ...

Performance improvement processes are an integral part of an ambulatory surgery center’s long-term financial, operational and clinical success. ASCs must maintain a sound and robust performance ...

Medicare’s value-based programs are penalizing inpatient hospitals for community-level health equity factors that impact outcomes but are largely out of hospitals’ control, according to a recent ...

Many ambulatory surgery centers assign a single staff member or just a few employees to oversee performance improvement programs. Lakes Surgery Center in West Bloomfield, Mich., went to the opposite ...

Report projects 300,000 Americans hospitalized between April 2024 and March 2025 survived episodes of care that they wouldn’t have in 2019 Patient safety throughout hospitals and health systems across ...

Improve healthcare operations and leverage cutting-edge technology to enhance processes. The online Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Quality Improvement will help you hone your analytical skills to ...