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Hospital pharmacies can enhance staff's satisfaction and improve their knowledge base by providing mentoring and professional development activities throughout their career progression.
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A North Carolina hospital pharmacy recently demonstrated the importance of having a good performance improvement (PI) strategy readily available when the pharmacy had to act quickly in February due to an IV heparin shortage.
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From the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) perspective, the saying "ignorance is bliss" does not apply when it comes to a patient's status.
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Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services web site. https://questions.cms.hhs.gov.
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When California Pacific Medical Center was named a top hospital for patient quality and safety for the fourth year in a row by the Leapfrog Group, the award cited the hospital's length-of-stay initiatives.
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Faced with a growing population of patients with heart failure who are awaiting a transplant and a shortage of intensive care beds, The Methodist Hospital in Houston is partnering with one local long-term acute care hospital in a program to care for patients with a left ventricular assist device (LVAD).
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A new process for managing radiological discrepancies in the ED at Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory, NC, has significantly improved the efficiency with which notifications are received and acted upon.
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A new study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine highlights the problem of hospital patients being unaware of their own medications.1
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In the first year of Stony Brook University (NY)Medical Center care management department's interdisciplinary project to reduce the length of stay for long-stay patients, aggregate patients days dropped from 4,400 to just more than 3,000 in a year, resulting in a revenue opportunity of approximately $4 million.
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Elderly heart failure patients who are at risk for rehospitalization are getting help following their treatment plan after discharge through a collaborative effort of The Methodist Hospital in Houston and Care for Elders, a community coalition of 80 private and public agencies that develops and tests pilot projects serving older adults.
