Healthcare Leadership Library
Auditing, Oversight & Accreditation
Best Practices
- Benchmarking and Best Practices Network
A comprehensive, specialized forum for all phases of benchmarking that is designed for veteran practitioners as well as novices. - California HealthCare Foundation Tool Kit to Reduce Medication Errors
This site contains a tool kit with a framework for developing an institutional plan to reduce medication errors, and specific tools for assessing, tracking, and addressing medication errors. - Florida Hospital Association's Patient Safety Practice Models
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- Michigan Health and Safety Coalition's Hospital Referral Guidelines for Eight Areas of Care
- North American Spine Society - Prevention of Wrong-Site Surgery
Sentinel Event Alert is a monthly newsletter that identifies specific sentinel events, describes their common underlying causes, and suggests steps to prevent occurrences in the future.
Capacity
- Hospital and Physician Capacity Update
The Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare - Meeting the Need for Hospital Capacity in New York
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Clinical Practice Guidelines
Clinical Resources
- Prostate Knowledge Website Harvard Medical School
Community Benefit
- Nonprofit Hospitals: Variation in Standards and Guidance Limits Comparison of How Hospitals Meet Community Benefit Requirements
GAO - What's At Stake: The Impact of New York's Hospitals on the Economy and Our Communities
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Consumer Healthcare
- Consumer Engagement in Health Care: The Use of Lower Cost-Sharing
EBRI - How to Find a Good Hospital
US News & World Report
Dental Care
Emergency Medicine & Preparedness
- Assessing Hospital Disaster Preparedness: A Comparison of an On-Site Survey, Directly Observed Drill Performance, and Video Analysis of Teamwork
The Annals of Emergency Medicine - The 2009 ACEP Report Card, What it Says, What it Means and What it Might Accomplish
The Annals of Emergency Medicine - The Cost of Koi: Evidence-Based Design in Emergency Medical Facilities
The Annals of Emergency Medicine - Active Bed Management by Hospitalists and Emergency Department Throughput
The Annals of Internal Medicine - Influenza Pandemic: Sustaining Focus on the Nations Planning and Preparedness Efforts
GAO - Emergency Preparedness: States Are Planning for Medical Surge, but Could Benefit from Shared Guidance for Allocating Scarce Medical Resources
GAO - Report Finds Economic Crisis Hurting U.S. Preparedness for Health Emergencies
RWJF - The National Report Card on the State of Emergency Medicine
American College of Emergency Physicians - Uninsured Adults Presenting to U.S. Emergency Departments
RWJF - National Study of the Emergency Physician Workforce, 2008
American College of Emergency Physicians - Hospitals Rising to the Challenge: The First Five Years of the U.S. Hospital Preparedness Program and Priorities Going Forward
Center for Biosecurity
Federal Advocacy
Graduate Medical Education (GME)
Healthcare Reform
- Health Security Project: Building Sensible Health Care Solutions
Stanford Center on Longetivity - Innovative Care Models
RWJF - Health System Modernization Will Reduce the Deficit
Democratic Leadership Council - Transforming the Health Care Delivery System: Proposals to Improve Patient Care and Reduce Health Care Costs
Senate Finance Committee - Developing and Implementing Self-Direction Programs and Policies: A Handbook
RWJF
Health Information Technology
- Top 10 Hospital Technology Issues: C-Suite Watch List for 2009 and Beyond
The ECRI Institute - The Nationwide Privacy and Security Framework for Electronic Exchange of Individually Identifiable Health Information
HHS - The Health IT Privacy and Security Toolkit
HHS - The Use of Electronic Health Records in U.S. Hospitals
RWJF - Health Information Technology 2007 and 2008 State Legislation
National Conference of State Legislators - Health Care IT Spending and Economic Realities
NAHIT - Rock and a hard place: An analysis of the $36 billion impact from health IT stimulus funding
PriceWaterhouse-Coopers - Acceptability of a Personally Controlled Health Record in a Community-Based Setting: Implications for Policy and Design
JMIR - Core Content for the Subspecialty of Clinical Informatics
RWJF
Hospital Acquired Infections
Insurance & Managed Care
- Private Health Insurance: 2008 Survey Results on Number and Market Share of Carriers in the Small Group Health Insurance Market
GAO - The Regulation of Private Health Insurance
RWJF - Ambulatory-Care Sensitive Admission Rates: A Key Metric in Evaluating Health Plan Medical-Management Effectiveness
Milliman - Value-Based Insurance Designs for Diabetic Drug Therapy: Actuarial and Implementation Considerations
Milliman - International Survey of Actuarial Issues and Practices
Milliman - Health Insurance Coverage in New York, 20052006
UHFNYC - Managing Care for High-Cost Elderly Duals
UHFNYC - Hard Times and Health Insurance
UHFNYC - Automated Renewal: Strategies to Maintain Coverage of Eligible Children in Medicaid and Child Health Plus
UHFNYC - 7th annual MetLife Study of Employee Benefit Trends
MetLife
Long-Term Care
- Long-Term Care: Options in an Era of Health Reform
The SCAN Foundation - Long-Term Care - an Essential Element of Healthcare Reform
The SCAN Foundation - Nursing Home Physician Specialists: A Response to the Workforce Crisis in Long-Term Care
The Annals of Internal Medicine - Issues Brief No. 3: Long-Term Home Health Care Program
HANYS - Issues Brief No. 2: Recommendations for Meaningful Long-Term Care Reform
HANYS - Issues Brief No. 1: Point of Entry
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Legislation
Market Conditions
- Health Care Costs 101
California HealthCare Foundation - The Impact of the Intensifying Economic Crisis on Nursing Homes Access to Capital
The Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care - The Current Recession and Healthcare Consumers
Thomson Reuters - How Hospitals Are Combating the Financial Downturn
HFMA - Top nine health industry issues in 2009
Price Waterhouse Coopers - The Deteriorating Financial Condition of New York City's Nonprofit Hospitals, and Its Effect on Capital Investment
UHFNYC - Dissecting the Downturn Generation: Recognizing and Leveraging Permanence in Todays Transformational Economy
Information Resources, Inc. - The Economic Crisis: The Toll on the Patients and Communities Hospitals Serve
AHA - 2009 Survey of Health Care Consumers
Deloitte - Vital Signs Fading - Clear Indicators of a Collapsing Hospital System
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Medical Malpractice & Tort Reform
- Elephants, Blind Sharpshooters, Golddiggers, and Beyond: The Prospects for Constructive Tort Reform (Part 1 of A 2-Part Series)
The Annals of Emergency Medicine - Tort Reform: Finding the Middle Ground and Abandoning the Blame Game: Part II of a 2-Part Series
The Annals of Emergency Medicine - Impact of State Laws Limiting Malpractice Awards on Geographic Distribution of Physicians
AHRQ - Medical Malpractice: Impact of the Crisis and Effect of State Tort Reforms
RWJF
Medicaid
- User's Guide to the ROI Forecasting Calculator Estimating ROI for Medicaid Quality Improvement Programs
RWJF - Monitoring and Evaluating Medicaid Fee-for-Service Care Management Programs
AHRQ - Rethinking Service Delivery for High-Cost Medicaid Patients
UHFNYC - Coverage and Managed Care Enrollment Patterns in Medicaid
UHFNYC - Reforming New York's Medicaid Eligibility Process
UHFNYC - Trends In Medicaid Physician Fees, 2003-2008
Health Affairs - A Closer Look at New York State's Medicaid Program: Patients, Providers, and Policy Choices
HANYS - Setting the Record Straight: Medicaid Fraud Laws and Proposals
HANYS - Recommendations to Prevent Medicaid Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
HANYS - Medicaid in New York State: Separating Fact from Fiction
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Medicare
- Medicare and HMOs The Search for Accountability
NEJM - Meeting Enrollees' Needs: How Do Medicare And Employer Coverage Stack Up?
HealthAffairs - Status of the Social Security and Medicare Programs
Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees - The Continuing Cost of Privatization: Extra Payments to Medicare Advantage Plans Jump to $11.4 Billion in 2009
The Commonwealth Fund - Medicare: Improvements Needed to Address Improper Payments in Home Health
GAO - Medicare Part B Imaging Services: Rapid Spending Growth and Shift to Physician Offices Indicate Need for CMS to Consider Additional Management Practices
GAO - Cost-Trends for Chronic Condition Cohorts with Medicare Benefits
Milliman - Falling Behind: Medicare Hospital Payment Policy in New York
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Organ & Tissue Transplantation
Pay for Performance & Value-Based Healthcare
- The Spectrum Health Value Study
Spectrum - Value-Driven Healthcare: Change along a continuum
Milliman - Pay-for-Performance: From Mesopotamiam to Modern
Milliman
Palliative & End-of-Life Care
Physician Salary, Compensation and Practice Surveys
- Physician Salary, Compensation and Practice Surveys
Merritt Hawkins & Associates - The Physicians Perspective: Medical Practice in 2008
The Physicians Foundation/Merritt Hawkins & Associates
Primary Care
Public Health
Quality & Patient Satisfaction
- Use of non-conventional nurses' attire in a paediatric hospital: a quasi-experimental study
The Journal of Clinical Nursing - The Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) Toolkit
RWJF - Comparison of Change in Quality of Care Between Safety-Net and Non-Safety Net Hospitals
RWJF - Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2009 Comparative Database Report
AHRQ - Revealing and Resolving Patient Safety Defects
RWJF
Quality Improvement Organizations and Initiatives
- AHRQ Healthcare 411 Audio Series
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has a new audio newscast series to help keep you informed of the Agency's latest health care research findings, news, and information. AHRQ's mission is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. AHRQ is the lead Federal agency in the effort to improve patient safety and reduce medical errors. Go to www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov to hear the newscasts through your computer or download them to a portable digital player such as an iPod. - CMS Quality of Care Information
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), in partnership with other quality-focused organizations such as Peer Review Organizations and End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Network Organizations, engages in a number of national projects aimed at improving the processes and outcomes of care for beneficiaries. Copies of national project reports and information about national projects are available on this Web site. - IPRO
- Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)
ISMP is a non-profit organization that works with health care practitioners and institutions, regulatory agencies, professional organizations, and the pharmaceutical industry to provide education about adverse drug events and their prevention. It is a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) MEDWATCH partner and regularly communicates with FDA to help to prevent medication errors. - Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
- Medical Outcomes Trust
Dedicated to improving health and health care by distributing standardized, high quality instruments that measure health and the outcomes of medical care. - MEDERRORS.com
MEDERRORS.com provides information on medication errors and adverse drug events in hospitals. It is intended as a link to experts in the fields of medication error, adverse drug event prevention, and continuous quality improvement. An online forum for the exchange of points of view among health care professionals, experts on process improvement, and health care consumers is provided. - Maryland Patient Safety
- National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO)
Dedicated to improving health care through the collection, analysis, dissemination, and use of health care data. Features research topics, tools, examples, applications and courses. Virtual conference on the quality of health care running on the MCB University Press Server. - North American Spine Society - Prevention of Wrong-Site Surgery
- National Association for Healthcare Quality
International leader promoting the science and practice of health care quality management. A national advocate for improved health care. - National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO)
NAHDO is dedicated to improving health care through the collection, analysis, dissemination, and use of health care data. NAHDO works with state, federal, and private sector technical and policy leaders and consultants to expand health systems development and shape responsible health information policies. - Nursing Home Quality Measures Project
- Public Health Foundation (PHF)
PHF is a national, non-profit organization dedicated to achieving healthy communities through research, training, and technical assistance. PHF assists health agencies and other community health system organizations by providing objective information in areas such as health improvement planning, understanding and using data, and improving performance. - The Leapfrog Group for Patient Safety
- The Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI)
ICSI is a collaboration of health care organizations helping its members identify and accelerate the implementation of best clinical practices for patients. The site contains a number of health care guidelines and technology assessment reports. - The Foundation for Accountability - FACCT
- The National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA)
A private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to assessing and reporting on the quality of managed care plans. - The National Patient Safety Foundation
- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Quality Indicators and Benchmarks
- HANYS-Sponsored Maryland Hospital Association Quality Indicator Project
The goal of the QI Project is to serve as a tool to assist hospital leadership in overseeing patient care quality and identifying opportunities for improvement. QIP includes ten inpatient, five ambulatory, seven psychiatric, and five long-term care indicators. - National Quality Measures Clearinghouse Index
Quality Report Cards
- WhyNotTheBest.org
The Commonwealth Fund
Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC)
- Recovery Audit Contractor Basics
Milliman - Lessons from the Recovery Audit Contractor Demonstration Project
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Reimbursement
- Hospital & Physician Cost Shift: Payment Level Comparison of Medicare, Medicaid, and Commercial Payers
Milliman - The Impact of ICD-10 on Clinical Operations
Milliman - Don't Underestimate the Impact of DRGs on Your Bottom Line
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Research
- ClinicalTrials.gov at the National Institute of Health (NIH)
ClinicalTrials.gov provides free access to clinical trial information by condition or by study sponsor. Each listing includes the trial name and identification, sponsors, purpose, current status, who may be eligible, where trials are being held, researchers' names and telephone numbers, and references to published papers that describe findings. - The Cochrane Collaboration
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international not-for-profit organization that aims to help people make well-informed decisions about health care by preparing, maintaining, and promoting the accessibility of systematic reviews of the effects of health care interventions. - The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement
A monthly, peer-reviewed journal devoted to offering practical approaches for improving the quality of care. Gives detailed accounts of how to measure, assess, and improve the quality of care delivered. Site also includes information on other publications and education programs.
State Budget & Finance
- State Health Facts and Health Care Finances
The Kaiser Family Foundation - The Fiscal Survey of States
National Governors Association
National Association of State Budget Officers - NGA State Economic Review
National Governors Association - State And Local Fiscal Challenges: Rising Health Care Costs Drive Long-term and Immediate Pressures
GAO
Studies & Academia
- Publication Guidelines for Improvement Studies in Health Care: Evolution of the SQUIRE Project
The Annals of Internal Medicine
Uninsured & Underinsured
- Uninsured Adults Presenting to U.S. Emergency Departments
RWJF - Interruptions in Medicaid Coverage and Risk for Hospitalization for Ambulatory CareSensitive
The Annals of Internal Medicine
Workforce
- The Schism in Organized Labor: What Happened? What Does It Mean For Health Care Employers?
Jackson Lewis LLP - Nursing Home Physician Specialists: A Response to the Workforce Crisis in Long-Term Care
The Annals of Internal Medicine - National Study of the Emergency Physician Workforce, 2008
American College of Emergency Physicians - Health Care Worker Shortages Persist: HANYS Workforce Survey Results for 2008
- 2009 Physician Workforce Survey
HANYS - Developing Real Solutions for the Health Care Workforce Crisis - NYONE and HANYS Proposal
HANYS - Summary of HANYS' 2007 Physician Workforce Survey
HANYS - HANYS' 2007 Workforce Guidebook
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Miscellaneous
- Medco Drug Trend Report
Medco - Nonprofit Hospitals Come Under Public Fire for Huge War Chests, Tony Improvement Projects
The Annals of Emergency Medicine - Strategic planning: Three tips for 2009
The McKinsey Quarterly - Conflict of Interest in Medical Research, Education, and Practice
IOM - Health Care Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Terms
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