Quality and Safety
Company has become the second-largest urgent care provider in the country with facilities across Arizona, North Carolina and Texas.
Rules strengthen patients' rights considerably and call for caregivers to be informed and engaged in plans for patients' care.
The law, passed in 2008, stipulates that emergency rooms give information about "morning-after" pills to sexual assault victims.
Project will help more than 750 hospitals implement enhanced recovery after surgery protocols.
Vizient survey finds 89.5 percent of hospital executives said protection of patients with pre-existing conditions must be kept.
Group says it wants to improve timely access to care and reduce administrative burden.
As health care costs continue to rise, hospitals and doctors are trying to figure out how to find these patients and get to the root of their problems.
Hospitals are among the top 5 percent in the nation that deliver high quality care.
In 2010, avoidable hospitalizations for dually-eligible beneficiaries in long-term care was 227 per 1,000 beneficiaries; 2015 rate was 157 per 1,000.
Agency intends to modify 2017 requirements for reporting eCQM data under the Inpatient Quality Reporting and EHR incentive programs for hospitals.