Regular culture checks help leaders align strategy with real work, prevent drift, and improve both safety performance and business results through disciplined assessment and execution.

To succeed in rural health, hospitals should capitalize on their close connection with the rural communities they serve, ...

Three of Lutheran Health Network’s hospitals received top marks, showing improvement at two facilities on the latest report cards issued Thursday by a national nonprofit. Dupont Hospital, Lutheran ...

Bryn Mawr — Lankenau Medical Center, Bryn Mawr Hospital and Riddle Hospital, all part of Main Line Health, earned a Hospital Safety Grade of A from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national ...

With the Institute of Medicine’s report, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services applied safety lessons gleaned from the aviation industry’s efforts ...

UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay (left), the UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights (top right), and UCSF Health St. Mary’s Hospital (bottom right). Three UCSF Health hospitals ...

Safety culture refers to the ways that safety issues are addressed in a workplace. It often reflects “the attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and values that employees share in relation to safety.” 1 The ...

Achieving high-quality patient care is at the forefront of every hospital’s mission. This is a tall task — one that requires collaboration across disciplines, a culture of frontline staff empowerment ...

The top hospitals in the U.S. are focused on utilizing technology to identify safety risks early and fostering a culture where patient safety is a shared responsibility. Among more than 4,000 U.S.

UnitedHealth Group’s biggest public controversy in Minnesota a year ago was its fight with health systems threatening to leave the insurer’s Medicare network as contract negotiations stalled. Now — ...

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Tye is an author based on Cape Cod, Mass., and runs a health journalism fellowship based at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The first things I noticed when I woke up after my recent ...