Leadership commitment is an important component of CE sustainability. Leadership support is facilitated by alignment and integration. This support starts with executive leadership but is necessary at ...

Alignment involves identifying common interests and shared goals between an organization’s internal and external components, such as aligning a CE to the healthcare system within which it operates. 12 ...

Windows of opportunity occur when the impetus for change has grown to a tipping point where new actions, such as investment into a CE’s work, are possible. The impetus for change refers to a health ...

Integration is carrying out alignment by sharing resources (capital, information, and people) and using common workflows to achieve shared goals. Integration occurs across clinical care, ...

Centers of Excellence (CEs) have been set up within and adjacent to healthcare delivery organizations for multiple purposes, including delivery of specialty clinical care, support for research ...

CEs focused on researching and improving quality and safety in healthcare must operate on a foundation of sound organizational principles and practices to remain sustainable. This section highlights ...

The Patient Safety Structural Measure is an attestation-based measure to assess whether hospitals demonstrate having a structure and culture that prioritizes patient safety. The Patient Safety ...

Health services research (HSR) is the field of study that examines the quality, safety, and affordability of healthcare delivery from the perspectives of patients, caregivers, and clinical ...

The rate of MRSA diagnoses on admission among expected self-pay hospitalizations decreased from 130.1 per 10,000 stays in 2019 to 114.1 per 10,000 stays in 2021, and the rate among hospitalizations ...

When wheezing episodes are no longer present and, in RA, taper and discontinue. Usually can discontinue between 34 and 35 weeks postmenstrual age, or after 5-7 days free of apnea. Home ...

Patient experience encompasses the range of interactions that patients have with the healthcare system, including their care from health plans, and from doctors, nurses, and staff in hospitals, ...

In rural areas, adult inpatient hospital stays with MRSA diagnoses on admission dropped from a rate of 106 per 10,000 stays in 2019 to 97 per 10,000 stays in 2021. In large metropolitan areas during ...