The National Association for Healthcare Quality has set national standards for quality and safety. The National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) has published a new report that includes ways ...

Continuous electronic monitoring with telemetry is an important hospital practice for monitoring patients who are at high risk of serious cardiac events. Unfortunately, it is often overutilized. When ...

An independent evaluation shows that small medical practices serving Los Angeles' most underserved communities achieved 7 to 13 percent improvement in blood pressure control, cancer screening and ...

CNO-turned-executive director Kerri Scanlon remains passionate about healthcare excellence. As a nurse leader at Northwell Health in New York for more than 25 years, including chief nursing officer ...

Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) report disproportionally worse cancer mortality. Current global cancer control efforts focus predominantly on expanding access to multimodality treatment for ...

Quality Improvement (QI) projects require a series of distinct steps and timely data collection that will allow clinics to see if changes are yielding results, a consultant told attendees at a ...

Improve healthcare operations and leverage cutting-edge technology to enhance processes. The online Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Quality Improvement will help you hone your analytical skills to ...

Today’s skilled nursing facilities face many challenges in the delivery of high-quality and safe care for vulnerable patient populations. Significantly, the very limited resources available in ...

Improving health equity is part of the core of quality improvement and requires data collection and community engagement strategies for underserved populations, said Shawn Griffin, MD, president and ...

Background Prehospital delays remain critical barriers to timely acute coronary syndrome (ACS) care, particularly for ...

The Optimizing Obstetric Care Quality Initiative was launched to address persistently elevated obstetric length of stay (LOS), which had drifted two standard deviations above peer benchmarks. Early ...