Students enrolling in the combined DNP/PhD in nursing program will complete coursework in a side-by-side fashion, whereby courses in both program will be taken concurrently. An overlap of 11 credits ...

To reduce episode spending for twenty-nine predefined clinical conditions, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented the voluntary Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) ...

Value-based programs such as accountable care organizations appear to encourage the adoption and spread of care coordination activities by hospitals. Objectives: To examine the relationship between ...

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program penalizes hospitals that have high 30-day readmission rates across specific conditions. There is support for changing to a hospital-wide readmission measure ...

Patients with intellectual disabilities who were cared for in hospitals without programs tailored to intellectual disabilities had 6% higher costs, and those with extreme admission severity had 42% ...