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A multidrug-resistant variant of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria is emerging in cities on both coasts of the United States, according to data from a new California-led study.
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Federal and state funding for family planning client services reached $1.85 billion in FY 2006, a 63% increase over 12 years, adjusting for inflation.
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One of the resources being made available to the newly designated Chartered Value Exchanges, or CVEs, will be technical assistance provided by the Sacramento, CA-based Center for Health Improvement (CHI).
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Mortality rates and hospital costs at facilities participating in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pay-for-performance demonstration project continue to decline, according to analysis by the Premier health care alliance.
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The Joint Commission has released its proposed 2009 National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs), and as one quality expert has opined, "It probably contained no surprises."
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After a year of reviewing applications from multi-stakeholder organizations across the country, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has selected the first 14 communities to be designated Chartered Value Exchanges (CVEs).
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A relatively small percentage of hospitals in the United States have a strategic approach to preventing urinary tract infections (UTIs), according to a study recently published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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While hand washing is strongly emphasized as a patient safety strategy, a new study published in the January 2008 issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology1 indicates that hand washing alone may not be enough to ensure lower infection rates.
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PA hospitals address preventable errors; Two insurers to stop paying for hospital errors; Study says low use of outpatient rehab after MI
