About 60% of nursing home quality measures have been showing significant year-to-year improvement, but hospitals have been improving more quickly, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and ...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing has launched a free, three-part self-directed online course for nursing and midwifery educators to help with the growing need for well-trained ...

Peer review: the evaluation of the professional performance of individual RNs by nurses with experience in the appropriate subject matter to provide a legitimate evaluation. It sounds simple, but the ...

The UAB School of Nursing’s Quality Improvement Scholars fellowship offers Doctor of Nursing Practice faculty members the opportunity to work with quality and safety research faculty to ultimately ...

In his 2022 executive order on nursing home resident safety and care quality, President Joe Biden “committed to building a long-term care system where all seniors can age with dignity, where people ...

Today’s skilled nursing facilities face many challenges in the delivery of high-quality and safe care for vulnerable patient populations. Significantly, the very limited resources available in ...

The Continuous Skilled Nursing Quality Improvement Act of 2025 directs the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to work with stakeholders, including providers, patient advocacy groups, and ...

The Social Security Act mandates that all nursing homes participating in the Medicare program—currently more than 14,000—undergo an annual recertification inspection, known as a standard survey, to ...

A study released Thursday by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) shows that hospital quality improvement programs increase strain on nurses, aggravating an already difficult nursing ...

Seven Topeka nursing homes are among 43 in Kansas participating in a program to improve quality of care. The program, funded by Kansas and federal agencies, will provide staff training and implement ...

LONDON, ON, May 7, 2013 /CNW/ - London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) has been featured in a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership released this week, highlighting Continuous ...

Quality Improvement (QI) projects require a series of distinct steps and timely data collection that will allow clinics to see if changes are yielding results, a consultant told attendees at a ...