A pilot program at Parkland Health uses “courtesy and respect” stickers on hand sanitizer dispensers to make respectful ...

NYU Langone Health’s Patient Experience Book Club demonstrates how simple, low-cost initiatives can foster meaningful connections among health care workers while improving professional well-being ...

Commentary from quality and safety leaders on the persistence of adverse events in care delivery — and where health care organizations should go from here.

For the past 25 years in Michigan, the Collaborative Quality Initiatives (CQIs) have taken a cooperative bottom-up approach to health care quality improvement. Made up of physician organizations and ...

After treating more than 21,000 low-risk patients in low-risk surgeries across multiple specialties over a 41-month period, no increased unplanned returns to the operating room or hospital admissions ...

As communities develop targeted programs to improve access to and administration of vaccines in underserved populations, the Vaccine Equity Index (VEI) can be applied as a simple and objective method ...

Massachusetts’ Public Health Commissioner discusses the need to break down barriers within organizations and between public- and private-sector health organizations to achieve better care and health ...

By developing and deploying specialized technology and teams of community health workers, care coordinators, social workers, and pharmacists, Waymark, a public-benefit company, was able to reduce E ...

An analysis of the systems in Massachusetts (USA), the Netherlands, Norway, and England (UK) reveals structural differences and variation in emphasis on programs used to effect value in care delivery.

Integrated pain management programs are key to fighting opioid abuse, but they face significant challenges in financing, access, and public understanding.

Racism, cultural mistrust, miscommunication, chronic illness bred by limited food and living choices, and lived experience bind together communities of color as disparate as the Navajo Nation and ...

The President and CEO of The Joint Commission delves into the history of the organization and its various branches, which are all focused on inspiration, improvement, and accountability; its ...