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• A QUEST to Improve Healthcare Cost and Quality

  The QUEST program, a joint project with the IHI and the Premier Healthcare Alliance, provides a framework that helps hospitals do what they have trouble doing alone—cutting costs and improving quality.

• How to Save Energy (and Money)

  Jennifer Stout, healthcare market manager for BetterBricks, the commercial building initiative of the nonprofit Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, discusses how to help hospitals save not only energy, but also money.

• Your HVAC Could Save You Millions

  Healthcare organizations spend more than $6.5 billion on energy each year. So, as CFOs look for innovative ways to trim expenses from the budget, they should look no further than the HVAC and lighting systems.

• CA Health Unions Have Forgotten Solidarity Forever

  The fight that pits the giant Service Employees International Union against the upstart National Union of Healthcare Workers has been most remarkable for its very public vitriol.

• Is Steele the Man for CMS?

  The rumor mill has President Obama naming Geisinger Health System CEO Glenn Steele as the new chief of CMS, a position that has been vacant since before the Bush administration left office.

• AHA Outlines How Hospitals Can Survive Future Workforce Changes

  Hospitals must prepare for the retirement of the aging Baby Boomer workforce, improve efficiency and staff satisfaction to retain existing workers, and make the healthcare industry an attractive job choice for a new generation of workers as the labor market tightens in the coming decade, recommends a new long-range report released this week by the American Hospital Association.

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