In August, Mountain States Healthcare Alliance, a 13-hospital integrated healthcare delivery system based in Johnson City, Tenn., received the 2012 National Quality Healthcare Award from the National ...

The American Hospital Association Committee on Research offers 20 examples of patient and family engagement strategies in its report, “Engaging Health Care Users: A Framework for Healthy Individuals ...

Application reviews are based on demonstrated clinical excellence and expertise, including local, regional or national reputation, consistently high quality of patient care, professionalism and ...

Last year, we introduced the concept of Better Care Plans (BCPs) as an important piece of the Biden administration’s proposed public option—although the BCPs are not limited to being only a solution ...

Adverse events during hospitalization are a major cause of patient harm, as documented in the 1991 Harvard Medical Practice Study. Patient safety has changed substantially in the decades since that ...

In intensive care units, some patients who appear unconscious occupy a gray zone in their relationship to the world. To ...