Establishing high reliability at a hospital requires leadership discipline and cultural commitment, according to the new CMO of Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California.

A new national study shows that while many emergency medical services (EMS) agencies across the United States are well-equipped to care for children, important gaps remain in training, quality ...

Payers are increasingly issuing policies that push patients outside of hospital settings, according to Laren Tan, MD, chair of Loma Linda (Calif.) University Health’s department of medicine. Dr. Tan ...

Factors from COVID-19 to consumer preferences are driving healthcare out of traditional physicians’ offices and hospital settings and into alternate sites of care, including outpatient, virtual and ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved waivers for six health systems to provide acute care at home. The hospitals include Brigham and Women's Hospital in Massachusetts; Huntsman ...

CMS’ 2026 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System rule moves Medicare further toward site-neutral payment, as part of an effort to narrow long-standing payment gaps between hospital outpatient ...

Using Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles, the studied intervention reduced hospital inpatient telemetry time by 51.25% while increasing American Heart Association (AHA) guideline–based usage. Objectives: ...

Baptist Health is offering eligible patients the option to receive hospital-level care at home through a new program launched at Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville. The program, called Baptist ...

A study showed that more than 28% of patients who exhibited violent behavior continued exhibiting that violence in subsequent healthcare settings, often beginning out-of-hospital and continuing in the ...