A new CMS report reveals disparities in care quality and patient safety within U.S. hospitals before and during the pandemic, finding “a large proportion of measures had worse than expected ...

Safety-net definitional ambiguity undermines targeted funding, limiting the ability to sustain staffing, infrastructure, and quality improvement needed for optimal stroke care across diverse ...

Telemedicine in safety-net primary care faces particular challenges. Consistent, team-based workflows can support video visit implementation and health care maintenance in telemedicine visits.

Kimberly Roberts, 54, listens to what she needs to purchase for Brenda Moore's grandchild's baby shower. "Without HUSKY C, I can't afford that," Moore said of having Roberts as a personal care aide at ...

Safety-net hospitals provided $11 billion in uncompensated care and another $11.4 billion in under-reimbursed care in 2023, according to a Nov. 6 report from America’s Essential Hospitals. Four things ...

The following article is written by Michael DiPietro, vice president of marketing and product management at HealthcareSource, a provider of talent management software for the healthcare industry based ...

State Directed Payments (SDPs) are an emerging tool that give states the authority to direct how managed care plans pay providers (such as by mandating managed care plans pay Medicaid providers a ...

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in America published “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” — an investigation into the prevalence of medical errors ...

'Most organizations focus on protecting the patient and less on protecting the home care worker,' a Johns Hopkins professor says. Private duty and home health administrators must tackle many industry ...