Daily huddles in the OR can also improve communication and collaboration between physicians and staff, leading to greater employee satisfaction, improved safety and a better patient experience.

In Illinois, daily 15-minute safety huddles helped Advocate Health Care increase safety event reporting by 40 percent at its 12 acute-care hospitals and cut the number of safety events overall ...

Often, quality improvement in healthcare settings is treated as a one-time effort, with people coming together once in awhile to focus on quality improvement and then returning to their daily jobs ...

Since the facility implemented the huddles, safety event reporting increased 40 percent within the system's 12 acute care facilities, according to the post, and the number of safety events decreased.

At Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare, ensuring the alignment of all these things to provide extraordinary care requires a constant regimented focus across its 23 hospitals, 170 clinics ...

In an innovative approach to improving the efficiency of daily safety huddles, University Hospitals' (UH) nurses are collaborating with Edgility, Inc.

Hundreds marched to Care New England headquarters Monday, demanding CEO Dr. Michael Wagner to return to the bargaining table.