Greater Lafayette and similar communities are seeing more investment in what leaders often call “world-class care.” That matters deeply for patients, families and the future of regional health care.

Before the pandemic, hospitals in the U.S. were making notable progress in the effort to address flagging patient safety and care quality metrics. And that effort paid off — adverse events and safety ...

The Defense Health Agency’s award-winning safety, high-quality care, and external transparency in all processes and improvements lead to “ready, reliable care” that meets or exceeds the nationally ...

Trese Biagini, NP, left, and Kathleen Kinda, NP, nurse practitioners in the UCSF Neurovascular Service, take care of a patient in the Emergency department at UCSF Medical Center at the Parnassus ...

Increasing access to and utilization of health care services is not sufficient for improving maternal health outcomes. The quality of care a woman receives during pregnancy, delivery and postpartum ...

Becker’s asked 14 healthcare leaders what steps they’re taking to align quality, safety and financial performance in 2026. The leaders featured below are speaking at Becker’s Perioperative Summit, ...

This Forefront article synthesizes lessons from widely adopted health care quality metrics to inform future quality metric design and development. The evolution of health care quality metrics over the ...

UCSF Health’s hospitals at Parnassus Heights, Mission Bay, and Oakland received the 2025 Top Hospital award from The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing health ...

Adverse events during hospitalization are a major cause of patient harm, as documented in the 1991 Harvard Medical Practice Study. Patient safety has changed substantially in the decades since that ...

BRENTWOOD, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ardent Health (NYSE: ARDT), a leading provider of healthcare in growing midsize urban communities across the U.S., today announced that seven of its facilities were ...

This Forefront article summarizes the current state of policy issues relevant to advancing accountable care in the safety net and recent changes introduced by CMS in their 2024 Medicaid Managed Care ...

Atlanta — More than 3 out of 5 health care workers who responded to a recent survey say their employer doesn’t demonstrate a strong concern for their security and that safety training is lax. For its ...