Water is used in many processes within a hospital’s sterile processing department, ranging from the initial cleaning of devices to final rinses. If water quality does not meet appropriate standards, ...

Total quality management is, in part, a philosophy saying that achieving excellence involves a constant forward effort from all of an organization's employees. TQM works by measurement: finding the ...

With quality and safety underpinning nearly every aspect of healthcare work, one might assume hospitals and health systems have well-established ways of finding out what their total investments in ...

Editor's Note: "Rebalancing Quality Priorities" is a three-part series describing a new approach to quality management from a customer and risk management perspective that involves the entire ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Absolute Total Care, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Centene Corporation, today announced it has received the prestigious New Health Plan accreditation from the ...

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Medicare's Quality Improvement Organizations had a banner year, according to a 2015 progress report that shows the organizations exceeded recruitment targets for six initiatives, prevented thousands ...