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Are you wondering how health care reform is going to impact your outpatient surgery program? Join the crowd.
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By getting financial staff to understand the clinician's point of view and finding a way to work together, Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, CA, has been able to capture millions in additional revenue, including $10 million just from the operating rooms.
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As part of a hospitalwide focus on improvement, the surgical services department at Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJH) in St. Louis, MO, began looking into its supply-chain processes. And it wasn't pretty.
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The first study of low back injection for pain management by the AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement, a not-for-profit subsidiary of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC), found eight common factors among organizations with shortest procedure times:
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A recent study from The Cleveland (OH) Clinic found increased incidence of adverse outcomes among smokers. The study was presented at the Anesthesia 2010 meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
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The Joint Commission's Center for Transforming Healthcare has teamed with 10 hospitals and health care systems to try to discover new solutions to the quality care problems associated with miscommunication between caregivers during hand-offs.
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Of all the recommendations of the new health care reform law, perhaps the one with the greatest potential for widespread improvement in quality and safety is the accountable care organization, or ACO, according to some experts.
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Despite significant attention to wrong-site and wrong-patient procedures, including The Joint Commission's "Universal Protocol" and checklists developed at prestigious institutions, a new study reports "a persisting high frequency of surgical 'never events.'"
