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Several EDs across the country have initiated policies to encourage patients who don't face "true" emergencies to seek care elsewhere in the community and to find "medical homes," but none have been met with the outrage that descended upon the University of Chicago Medical Center recently.
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The senior emergency center at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, MD, may be a rarity, but based on the responses of patients and staff not to mention our increasingly aging population perhaps more EDs should consider creating a separate unit for older patients.
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A new program in Houston that involves tight teamwork between The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, the Memorial Hermann Heart and Vascular Institute Texas Medical Center, and the Houston Fire Department EMS, as well as an experimental "cocktail" given in the ambulance to patients meeting certain criteria, has dramatically reduced Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)-to-balloon time and improved survival rates.
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In the latest move in the continuing saga of the National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) on medication reconciliation, The Joint Commission has said while it will continue to evaluate compliance with the standard during on-site surveys, "it will not be factored into the organization's accreditation decision and will not generate Requirements for Improvement [RF])." The new policy, announced recently, became effective retroactively to Jan. 1, 2009.
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Most managers have been pushing extra hard to improve safety over the last few years, and The Joint Commission says all the hard work is paying off.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is joining AIDS service organizations (ASOs) and other groups in launching a new campaign to fight the epidemic in African American communities.
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The HIV/AIDS epidemic has wreaked havoc among African American communities in the United States in the past decade, and the government's slow response is partly to blame, one AIDS advocate says.
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Every 9 ½ minutes another person in America becomes infected with HIV, officials from the White House, Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emphasized in recently launching a new five-year national communication campaign, Act Against AIDS.
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Today, women account for more than one-quarter of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
