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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has issued new infection control standards for 2005, emphasizing at a conference in Chicago that hospital executives not quality managers or infection control practitioners are going to have to take ultimate responsibility for enacting them.
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Health care organizations have been improving processes for years. Recently, however, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations mandated that organizations use a proactive risk assessment technique failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) to improve the safety of patient care activities.
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O'Mathuna DP. Exercise and cardiovascular disease. Altern Ther Women's Health 2003;5(12):89-92.
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The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Bethesda, MD, recently announced several research studies that are focusing on CAM for cancer prevention and treatment. These studies may also look at whether CAM therapies may interfere with or enhance conventional treatments.
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Fire any manager who invents a new form was one of the written responses to a survey of nurses conducted by Bernard Hodes Group, a human resources company based in New York City.
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There is no magic formula for attracting the best applicants to your agency, but using a combination of marketing tools to reach nurses with news of job openings will help you find the people you want, according to Don Richardson, vice president of administration for the Visiting Nurse Association of Texas in Dallas.
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This is the second installment of a two-part series that looks at telemedicine in home health. This month, tips on funding telemedicine programs are presented.
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Here are some of the organizations that offer grants to fund home health telemedicine projects.
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They still graze in and around your agency, but an increasing number of home health managers are starting to look critically at sacred cows that need to be put out to pasture.
