The following is excerpted from Performance Improvement for Healthcare: Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management by Bahadir Inozu, Dan Chauncey, Vickie Kamataris, and Charles ...

Schneider Regional Medical Center announced Friday that it has earned full accreditation from the Joint Commission, a milestone the hospital says confirms that its clinical services, patient safety ...

Vizient, a healthcare performance improvement company, honored 25 hospitals with its 2018 Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Award. The award is given each year to academic medical centers, ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Press Ganey today announced the acquisition of Healthcare Performance Improvement (HPI), a leading patient safety and reliability consulting and coaching firm. HPI’s ...

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Force Ten Partners LLC, a leading advisory firm specializing in financial and operational corporate restructuring, has formalized and expanded its healthcare practice ...

The importance of refining healthcare processes has never been more pronounced. In the Physician MBA Program at the Kelley School of Business Indianapolis, I learned process improvement—among other ...

Hospitals across the U.S. are seeing steady financial performance, driven by increased patient volumes, even as high expenses remain a persistent challenge, according to Kaufman Hall's January 2025 ...

As healthcare organizations prioritize financial recovery, understanding how your hospital stacks up against peers is key to developing an actionable healthcare performance improvement plan.

Report projects 300,000 Americans hospitalized between April 2024 and March 2025 survived episodes of care that they wouldn’t have in 2019 Patient safety throughout hospitals and health systems across ...

Some hospitals were able to outperform others in a commercial insurer episode-based incentive program, but there was little evidence of global reductions in episode spending. Objectives: To evaluate ...

Rising volumes aren't resulting in stronger margins as many organizations are finding little to no relief, Kaufman Hall's latest report shows. Hospitals are seeing higher patient volumes but little ...