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A hospital's attempt to prepare for armed intruders took a bad turn when a drill simulating a man with a gun taking over a patient care unit was too real for some staff. Many did not know that it was a drill and were severely traumatized. Plus, the clinicians were kept from their critically ill patients until the drill was cancelled.
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The proposed HITECH rules require covered entities to provide the recipient of any fundraising communication with a "clear and conspicuous" opportunity to opt out of receiving any further fundraising communications.
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Involve physicians in the development and implementation of alert systems, rather than simply training them in the systems when you're ready to go live, says Linda Peitzman, MD, chief medical officer of Wolters Kluwer Health in Indianapolis.
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The fake terror drill that left staff traumatized and the hospital facing a state investigation was a "very painful lesson," says Chief Operations Officer Teressa Conley, RN, MBA, MSN, EA, at St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson, NV.
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Patients who sue their surgeons for malpractice are more frequently receiving indemnity payments for increasingly larger amounts, according to a study of 3,300 cases across several states over a recent six-year period.
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Did you know that you have the ability to reach a potential 500 million people, and it doesn't cost you a dime? Five hundred million is the number of active Facebook users who spend more than 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook.
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Friends and potential patients of Hospice of Palm Beach County have no problem finding the agency on the Internet. A combination of their agency web site and the use of Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and e-newsletters means that an Internet search for "hospice and Palm Beach" turns up more than 200,000 results, with most results on the first page directing you to the Hospice of Palm Beach County sites.
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This is the second of a two-part series that looks at the benefits of partnering with adult day service programs. Last month, we looked at the opportunities, benefits, and challenges of collaboration. This month we discuss a hospice that started its own adult day service program.
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There might be no simple one-size-fits-all approach to improving end-of-life care in ICU settings, according to a recent study from some of the world's leading researchers in palliative care.
