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One out of three seniors who breaks a hip this year will die as a result of complications from the fracture, but simple fitness measures can greatly reduce a seniors risk of falling, say University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (UA) researchers.
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Like many performance improvement activities, benchmarking has its own nomenclature, its own tools and, in a way, even its own culture. But focusing on those differences, rather than on making benchmarking an integral part of your ongoing performance improvement program, can doom your efforts to early failure.
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In what the principals claim is a health care industry first, HealthGrades Inc. and J.D. Power and Associates have formed a strategic alliance to recognize hospitals for excellence in both service and clinical outcomes.
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The Leapfrog Group, the Washington, DC-based organization that seeks to foster improved patient safety, soon will complete a tool to help realign incentives for health care facilities that invest in meeting Leapfrog recommendations.
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AHA toolkit fosters evidence-based medicine; CDC stresses smallpox vaccination site care; St. Louis hospitals sign preparedness agreement; HHS seeks safer smallpox vaccines
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One year after being found guilty of conspiring to defraud through a system of kickbacks for patient referrals and the filing of false claims that resulted in overpayments of more than $1 million from Medicare and Medicaid, six co-defendants were sentenced to a combination of almost seven years in federal prison and more than $526,000 in restitution payments.
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Although Valley Health System in Winchester, VA, originally set up the community nurse case management program as a separate department that operated independently of home health, people soon realized that the two areas needed to coordinate their activities, says Lisa M. Zerull, RN, MS, program director of the community nurse case management program.
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Forget the lottery as your way to riches. According to Judge Judy, The Practice, and countless other television legal shows, you can easily recoup real and imagined losses by suing someone.
