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  • Avoid EMTALA violations: Use these strategies

    If your nurses arent up to date on the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), you risk violations that can result in fines of up to $50,000 per violation, lawsuits for personal injury, and possible termination of the hospitals Medicare provider agreement.
  • Here are key EMTALA points to know

    Here is the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) study guide given to emergency department nurses at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, Melrose Park, IL.
  • Benchmarking beneficial for fiscal management

    When considering opportunities to improve financial performance, benchmarking may not immediately come to mind; but health care managers who have used benchmarking techniques to enhance the fiscal well-being of their institutions have found it to be invaluable.
  • It’s back to school for system leaders

    Health care leaders in Ann Arbor, MI, are returning to school so they can learn how to better care for a highly complex patient: the multisite, multispecialty academic medical center known as the U-M (University of Michigan) Health System.
  • Lower mortality, LOS seen with intensivists

    Closed intensive care units (ICUs) those in which an intensivist is the patients primary attending physician or ICUs that require mandatory critical care consultation with an intensivist experience lower mortality rates and shorter lengths of stay (LOS), according to a study published in the Nov. 6, 2002, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Physician staffing patterns and clinical outcomes in critically ill patients.
  • News Briefs

    Hospitals to share quality information; Hospitalists save money; Veterans Health Initiative announced.
  • Full March 1, 2003 Issue in PDF

  • Health care organization shares the wealth with ‘benchmarking days’

    Being a nationally recognized health care system certainly has its benefits, the most obvious being front-of-mind awareness and a favorable perception among potential patients.
  • Ongoing studies cite clinical best practices

    The Wilmette, IL-based Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care Institute for Quality Improvement (AAAHC IQI) is seeking to provide quality improvement opportunities for health care professionals through a series of clinical performance studies, which began when the organization was established in 1999.
  • Group therapy billing confusing for some

    Start asking questions about the way Medicare wants physical and occupational therapists to code group vs. individual therapy, and youll get a plethora of contradictory answers and some heated opinions to boot.