The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has issued the seventh annual report on the state of health care quality nationally, the National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) and the National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR).
Hospital Management is an important part of healthcare administration, that represents the sum of all administration and management activities of hospitals, hospital networks or medical centers. As a discipline, it has developed empirically, due to hospitals being established as private charitable community resources, for religious missions, by physicians to have a place to practice, or as governmental driven entities. Hospitals have traditionally been operated and managed through a variety of means, each of them developing a different management philosophy and style.