Quality and Safety
The problems were traced to the compounding pharmacy lab at Paradise Valley Hospital in National City, California, where inspectors found "dust, stains and foreign material" in a supposedly sterile environment in which thousands of intravenous medications were prepared over eight months -- from Jan. 1 to Aug. 18.
The Senate on Tuesday approved $1.1 billion to fund the fight against the Zika virus, a figure short of the $1.9 billion requested by President Barack Obama.
Despite an overall drop in doctor's visits, emergency visits and hospital care, children's healthcare spending rose in 2014, according to a new report by the Health Care Cost Institute that claims rising prices bridged the gap in utilization.
Pamela Peele knows that people who subscribe to cooking magazines have a much higher risk of going to the emergency room. But how she knows that is a whole other story.
Instead of slashing jobs to cut costs and increase profits, hospitals should focus on delivering high-quality customer experiences to widen their margins. That's the word from a new study released by Accenture, which shows that hospitals who delivered superior customer experiences increased their net margins by 50 percent over average-performing facilities.
While public rankings from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and industry ones from groups like Leapfrog and Healthgrades, have raised awareness of hospital shortcomings in patient safety, and new report claims these programs fail themselves to stand up to scientific scrutiny.
An extra $73 billion was spent between 2010 and 2012 on brand name medications, according to a new study by JAMA Internal Medicine, and the practice of therapeutic substitution could help to drive down those costs, a new study suggests.
iVantage Health Analytics on Monday named its top 100 critical access hospitals and the top 100 rural and community hospitals in the nation for their high scores in terms of patient satisfaction and financial stability.
In addition to faring well in terms of patient satisfaction, the hospitals are also operating on firm financial ground.
While may rural hospitals are closing, some facilities are excelling at care and finances alike.