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For many hospital pharmacy departments, decentralization is an important goal for the purpose of improving patient care and safety and encouraging greater collaboration between pharmacists, nurses, and physicians.
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The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has designated the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) of Horsham, PA, as one of the first 10 Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs), according to a news release by ISMP.
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Experts in quality improvement say that the recent listing of the first 15 patient safety organizations (PSOs) under the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 will help hospitals across the United States improve patient safety by enabling the establishment of a huge database on errors and what causes them.
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The ambulatory surgery department in Glen Cove Hospital, part of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, has achieved its goal of reducing recovery length of stay from 190 minutes to 160 minutes with the implementation of a Six Sigma initiative and its attendant recommendations.
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The Endoscopy Center of Colorado Springs (CO) has won a national award for its improved system of reporting and explaining pathology results to patients.
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For the past two years, the ED at Avera Weskota Medical Center, a small, rural critical-access hospital in Wessington Springs, SD, has been using a new "Emergency Services Aftercare" instruction form to help patients remember vital information about the care they received and instructions to follow once they get home.
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A study initiated by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), has shown that 13 of every 1,000 inpatients surveyed were either infected or colonized with Clostridium difficile (C. difficile), an infection associated with severe diarrhea, colitis, toxic megacolon, sepsis, and death.
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At DCH Health System, the clinical documentation improvement team takes a proactive approach to changes in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) documentation requirements.
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When behavioral health patients who have been hospitalized receive interventions in their home, their compliance with treatment recommendations increases and hospital readmission drops, a study by PsycHealth Ltd.'s Home Intervention Program has found.
