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In the past two years, three Pennsylvania hospitals have won the coveted John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award, given by the National Quality Forum (NQF) and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations.
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A new study by researchers at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor has shown shorter, less costly, and less frequent hospital stays and, in addition, has prevented repeat hospital visits for kids with asthma.
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Evergreen Healthcare in Kirkland, WA, has used a combination of collaboration with an outside consultant and a diverse in-house team
to achieve dramatic reductions in lengths of stay (LOS) and readmission rates for congestive heart failure (CHF) patients.
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The results are mixed in the first-of-its-kind survey of hospital safety practices conducted by The Leapfrog Group, a Washington, DC-based organization founded to promote improvement in health care safety.
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Experts participating in a recent panel discussion of progress in patient safety since the Institute of Medicines (IOM) landmark 1999 report on medical errors, To Err is Human, said significant strides have been made in the five years since the report but that much more needs to be done to make health care safer.
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A recent Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) survey at Medical City Dallas Hospital was extremely educational, with surveyors taking extra time to educate staff, reports Rosemary Rouse, RN, BSN, the organizations survey coordinator.
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Would you like your organizations care of patients with chest pain to be something to brag about? Consider obtaining accreditation from the Columbus, OH-based Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC).
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More than 4,000 hospitals currently share data through the initiative, which assesses how often caregivers follow 10 clinical care steps proven to improve outcomes in heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia patients.
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Case managers with the Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA), a nonprofit medical indemnity association, follow a practice model that differs significantly from that used at most other insurance companies, says Melissa Bojorquez, ACBSW, MBA, CCM, supervisor for the HMSA case management program.
