This is a portion of the Elective Delivery Policy use at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville to minimize unnecessary deliveries before 39 weeks gestation:
News: A 32-year-old woman presented to the hospital following a planned home delivery with the assistance of a midwife.
Providers are increasingly faced with the dilemma of whether to ban all personal electronic devices such as iPads and BlackBerrys in patient care areas or allow clinicians to use them.
Limiting access to hospital units is one strategy for reducing the risk of abductions and other threats to children, notes Dan Yaross, director of security at Nationwide Childrens Hospital in Cincinnati.
With a tough economy and mounting pressures on healthcare providers, more hospitals are going bare and foregoing medical malpractice insurance coverage in the hopes that they can cover any judgment on their own.
