CNO-turned-executive director Kerri Scanlon remains passionate about healthcare excellence. As a nurse leader at Northwell Health in New York for more than 25 years, including chief nursing officer ...

With the introduction of Partnership for Patients and other initiatives, healthcare organizations are focusing more than ever on improving patient safety. Quality improvement studies can help guide ...

A collection of articles and PowerPoint presentations that provide new improvers (people interested in problem solving and process improvement) with an introduction to the problem solving framework ...

3 Easy Steps to a More Effective Quality Improvement Program Implementing an effective quality improvement program is not only essential to achieving accreditation by the Accreditation Association of ...

My aha! moment about the zero-defect concept happened in 2009. We were discussing with a customer how to document all data created during the production process in order to enable a traceability ...

Diagnostic and Interventional Surgical Center, the ambulatory surgery center arm of DISC Sports & Spine Center in Marina del Rey, Calif., has done over 7,000 cases since it opened its doors in 2006 ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

Robert Fenton is the founder and CEO of Qualio, a cloud-based quality management system (eQMS) for life sciences teams. The medical products that save lives every day pass through a critical layer of ...

Continuous electronic monitoring with telemetry is an important hospital practice for monitoring patients who are at high risk of serious cardiac events. Unfortunately, it is often overutilized. When ...