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HealthLeaders Media · 8d

UnityPoint Health CMO Says Simplicity Drives High Quality Care

Gregory Johnson, MD, became UnityPoint’s CMO in July 2024. Prior to joining UnityPoint, he held several clinical leadership positions, including CEO of hospital medicine and chief health equity and diversity officer at Sound Physicians, a physician-founded multispecialty group based in Tacoma, Washington.
Icon for drexel.eduDrexel University · Jul 28, 2022

Certificate in Quality, Safety and Risk Management

Safety and Risk Management is designed to prepare health professionals who can lead organizational efforts to improve and monitor quality metrics, improve safety for both patients and staff, and manage risks in a dynamic healthcare environment. Upon ...
Icon for www.uab.eduKaleido Scope · Dec 22, 2023

Patient Safety and Performance Measures

We provide measures of our performance in six major areas related to patient safety in the Women and Infants Center: Patients in the hospital often need a way to receive medication through a vein. This is performed through an intravenous (IV) catheter in ...
Icon for www.uab.eduKaleido Scope · Dec 22, 2023

Ambulatory Clinic Quality Improvement (QI) Metrics

In the Women and Infants Center at UAB, ambulatory clinic quality is critically important ... We are proud to report positive metrics and feedback in the following key areas: Hand cleansing with soap and water or by using an alcohol-based hand sanitizer ...
Icon for www.beckershospitalreview.comBecker's Hospital Review · 16d

CMS weighs dropping some quality measures: What to know

CMS is proposing to modify several hospital quality measures and remove four others, including those focused on health equity and social drivers of health. The agency outlined the changes April 11 ...
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The Best US Airlines Based on Cost, Comfort and Safety

Wallethub compared metrics such as baggage handling reliability, on-time departures, in-flight comfort, cost, incidents with animals, and overall safety. The survey found that the best overall airline in the US is Spirit, with an overall score of 69.12 ...
Devdiscourse · 6d

Food safety breakthrough: AI tool flags risky suppliers using global data metrics

The framework begins by establishing a standardized process to score suppliers based on seven risk indicators: hazard risk, commodity vulnerability, incident category, audit performance, logistic performance index (LPI),
Icon for www.hbs.eduHarvard Business School · Jul 10, 2015

Hospital Board and Management Practices Are Strongly Related to Hospital Performance on Clinical Quality Metrics

Ashish K. Jha, Atul A. Gawande, Robert S. Huckman, Nicholas Bloom, and Raffaella Sadun. "Hospital Board and Management Practices Are Strongly Related to Hospital Performance on Clinical Quality Metrics." Health Affairs 34, no. 8 (August 2015): 1304–1311.