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Resident elopement and wandering can be extremely dangerous for patients and costly to the facility if the patient is injured or dies, but many health care providers do not have a formal plan in place to prevent the problem or respond effectively once staff realize a patient is missing.
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Gaining patient consent and provider adoption for health information exchanges (HIEs) is important for the success of the effort, and patients must be adequately educated about the HIE or they may not give their permission, says Jared Rhoads, senior research analyst with CSC, a technology consulting company based in Falls Church, VA.
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A pregnant woman at full term presented to the hospital for the birth of her son. The baby was delivered via Caesarean section. Normal tests were conducted on the newborn, and all seemed to be in order.
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A 57-year-old nursing home resident with a history of dementia climbed out the open window in her room, falling 30feet to the ground below. The woman suffered severe injury as a result of the fall, and a jury awarded the plaintiff $276,164 in damages.
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The ideal time for a patient to learn about the potential need to deactivate the electrical shock feature of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is when the decision to implant the device is made, says Chuck Wellman, MD, FAAHPM, chief medical officer at Hospice of the Western Reserve in Cleveland, OH.
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This is the second of a two-part series examining some of the regulatory and financial changes faced by hospices during recent years.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent a letter to Baxter Healthcare Corp. on April 30 ordering the company to recall and destroy all of its Colleague Volumetric Infusion Pumps in use in the United States.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a new initiative to address safety problems associated with external infusion pumps.
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While there are certain scenarios regarding patient care when what is written in the law might seem to counter what is ethically appropriate, in general, the law and ethics complement each other in the health care arena, according to ethical experts interviewed by AHC Media, publisher of Hospice Management Advisor.
