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State Laws on Price Transparency Aren't Enough
Due to high out-of-pocket costs, patients are ‘becoming the new payer.’
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Online Training Helps Staff Members Keep Up with Fast-paced, Changing Industry
Continuing education unites staff and helps them execute their jobs down to the smallest detail.
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Do Registrars Gossip About One Another?
Put an end to it quickly to protect morale.
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Surprise Medical Bills Add Up Fast
Patients often unfairly blame hospitals.
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How Patient Access Can Save Money and Improve Satisfaction
Revamped processes are necessary to prevent major problems when handling out-of-network coverage issues.
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Scientists Link Blood Pressure to Brain Health
The American Heart Association says high blood pressure can cause cognitive impairment.
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Nearly All Wrong-Patient Errors Preventable
Most, and possibly all wrong-patient errors are preventable, according to a recent report from ECRI Institute PSO in Plymouth Meeting, PA.
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Survey and Checklist Help Improve Handoffs
To kick off their project to improve handoffs at South Shore Hospital in South Weymouth, MA, Lisa Nolan, RN, AD, a nurse in the surgical ICU, and ED nurse Nicole Howley, RN, BSN, began with a survey to help them find the root causes of poor handoffs.
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Nurses’ Project Improves Handoffs
A nursing initiative to improve patient handoffs began by addressing the root cause of poor transitions from the ED to the ICUs: The nurses didn’t know each other very well, and weren’t concerned with how their actions affected their counterparts on the other unit.
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Hospital Tries Reporting Project, but Few Takers
Efforts to include patients and family members in reporting safety issues don’t always work, as the staff at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston recently discovered.