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Direct treatment providers, including EDs, soon will be required to provide each patient with detailed information about their privacy practices. The notification must be written in plain language, and must contain the following elements.
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For every ED professional whos had to deal with the onerous and time-consuming preparations for a survey by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, some good news: The Joint Commission has announced a major overhaul of its survey process intended to reduce both the expense and the documentation burden usually associated with accreditation surveys.
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Here is a timeline for how the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will implement its Shared Visions New
Pathways survey process.
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Details on billing for ED procedures.
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The enthusiastic response of states such as Connecticut notwithstanding, national leaders concede that the actual numbers of health care workers volunteering to be vaccinated is relatively small.
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Return-to-work (RTW) programs are seen as such an integral part of occupational medicine that it would never occur to most observers that there are a number of physicians who are ill-prepared to appropriately address RTW issues.
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Although the response to the Bush administrations voluntary smallpox vaccination has been underwhelming, one northeastern state is moving ahead with its program undeterred.
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Employees seeking wellness advice or program leadership are most comfortable placing their trust in health care professionals (on-site nurses or outside consultants), according to a recent survey commissioned by the Atlanta-based American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN).
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EAPs (employee assistance programs) and similar services are available in many organizations to help employees with mental health issues, but not nearly enough attention is paid to mental health at the organizational level, says Jeffrey P. Kahn, president of New York City-based WorkPsych Associates.
