Quality & Regulatory

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Acute care hospitals reduced c. diff infections by 13%, CLABSIs by 9%, and CAUTIs by 5% in 2017, according to...Read More »

by Denise Wilson, RN, MS, RRT, and Karla Hiravi, RN, BSN

Facility appeal writers must craft piles of appeals, with virtually no...Read More »

By Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCDS
Over the years, Congress passed numerous pieces of legislation to limit health­care...Read More »

Surgical outcomes at hospitals on...Read More »

The estimated annual cost of sepsis readmissions is more than half the annual cost of all Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP...Read More »

Though CMS required hospitals to publish their list of retail charges for individual services and DRGs in online spreadsheets starting January 1...Read More »

by Denise Wilson, RN, MS, RRT, and Karla Hiravi, RN, BSN

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a sudden and temporary loss of kidney...Read More »