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The FY 2007 appropriations bill offers too little to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) and other Ryan White CARE Act initiatives, claim Jeanne White-Ginder, mother to Ryan White, and The AIDS Institute of Washington, DC.
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Asking patients if they felt unsafe at any point during their hospital stay. Actively encouraging patients to report safety concerns. Having systems in place to ensure that all patients receive a complete list of their current medications.
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When it comes to completing the periodic performance review (PPR), organizations have more options than ever. The newest is the "full PPR option," which is a regular survey fully staffed by certified surveyors.
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Is your organization on the fence about participating with the Washington, DC-based Leapfrog Group's Hospital Quality and Safety Survey? If so, why not practice first?
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The American Nurses Association, the New York State Nurses Association, and the Washington State Nurses Association filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), claiming that HHS allows hospitals that fail to meet federal nurse staffing requirements to participate in Medicare, thereby endangering patients.
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Without procedures and standardized ways of doing things, the complex process of caring for hospitalized patients would be difficult. Procedures have a central role to play in quality and patient safety.
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The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), based in Boston, has reported that U.S. hospitals taking part in an 18-month effort to prevent 100,000 unnecessary deaths by dramatically improving patient care have exceeded that goal.
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Budget-conscious quality managers might want to take a good, hard look at the findings in the latest report from the Dartmouth Atlas Project, in Hanover, NH. It indicates that providing chronically ill Medicare beneficiaries more care at a higher cost does not translate into higher quality care.
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The reports on hospital-based emergency and trauma care, emergency medical services (EMS), and pediatric emergency care were derived from 11 studies commissioned by recognized experts in emergency care. The overall themes were quite broad, focusing on the key issues of coordination, regionalization, and accountability.
