Nexus Newsletter
Current issues
- President's healthcare agenda should advance hospitals? efforts to improve the health of communities (1/28/08)
- Healthcare leaders serve as advisors for comprehensive program to improve hospital quality, reduce costs (1/15/08)
- Medicare value-based purchasing provides opportunity to improve patient care (12.5.07)
- Hospitals achieve breakthroughs in clinical supply savings to help counter rising healthcare costs (11/15/07)
- Four of the scariest things in healthcare: Hospitals successfully confront these chilling challenges (10/31/07)
- Hospitals have stepped up efforts to protect healthcare workers from needlestick injuries (10/23/07)
- SCHIP agreement is vital to the health of our nation’s children (10/16/07)
- Congress passes unique device identification language to advance patient safety (10/2/07)
- Best practices healthcare Web site is focused on improving lives in communities nationwide (9/20/07)
- New comprehensive project seeks to improve hospital quality, reduce costs (7/27/07)
- House votes overwhelmingly to block unwarranted Medicare cut to hospitals (7/25/07)
- House acts to improve patient safety through unique identification of medical devices (7/11/07)
- Better information on comparative effectiveness of healthcare will lead to improved care (7/10/07)
- Increased transparency of healthcare quality and cost improves care and empowers patients (6/27/07)
- Studies provide valuable insight into hospital pay for performance (6/14/07
- Hospitals are making “greener” choices for the safety and health of patients, workers and the environment (6/12/07)
- Hospitals focus on eliminating infections and associated costs - 5/23/2007
- Health professionals say mandatory unique device identification system would improve patient safety - 5/8/2007
- Perinatal project reduces birth risk, improves safety and outcomes in obstetric care - 5/2/2007
- Hospitals fuel rapid improvement in patient care through nationwide benchmarking and best practice sharing - 4/23/2007
- Hospitals’ emphasis on quality improvement is reflected in the Baldrige process - 3/27/2007
- Premature infants face dire consequences from makeshift feeding devices: Hospitals and suppliers collaborate to develop safe alternative - 3/14/2007
- Groundbreaking Medicare, Premier pay-for-performance project extended - 3/6/2007
- Hospitals' improvements in care for heart patients merits recognition during "American Heart Month" -2/13/2007
- Patient lives saved as performance continues to improve in groundbreaking CMS/Premier pay-for-performance project - 1/31/2007
- IHI Names Premier Inc. partner in 5 Million Lives campaign to reduce medical harm throughout the nation - 1/23/2007
- Premier’s hope for State of the Union address: Priorities that help hospitals improve the health of their communities - 1/16/2007
- Using nationwide knowledge to improve local healthcare - 1/3/2007
- National Baldrige Award recognizes commitment to quality improvement - 11/28/2006
- Unique identification of medical devices is paramount to improving patient safety and reducing medical errors - 11/14/2006