In an effort to improve surgical quality and reduce clinical variability, the Military Health System (MHS) expanded its participation in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program to all ...

Although regional health improvement collaboratives have been adopted nationwide to improve primary care quality, their effects on avoidable hospitalizations and costs remain unclear. We quantified ...

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has selected 15 hospitals to participate in two new quality improvement programs as part of its Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative. Foundation officials ...

Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are one of the most deadly and costly hospital-associated infections in the U.S. Each year, thousands of patients die and it costs billions to ...

Implementation of surgeon-led Musculoskeletal Quality Collaborative protocols reduced high-cost consumable utilization without compromising patient safety. Systemwide collaboratives can reduce ...

Twenty-eight Oklahoma hospitals, including Northeastern Health System, recently received awards for excellence in perinatal ...

Quality collaboratives are comprised of multiple teams working together from different domains within the healthcare industry. Payors and providers have shown success in working together as a ...

A national Return-to-Screening effort initiated and led by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) helped restore cancer screenings to pre-pandemic levels and contributed to a significant number of ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Memorial Healthcare System of Hollywood, Fla., has joined a pair of collaborative projects addressing the strategic implications of healthcare reform to improve the ...