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Use education to get staff on board with a team-approach to care
Immediate bedding and the practice of swarming delivering patient care as a team can significantly slash wait times and overall length-of-stay in the ED. However, getting physicians and nurses to transition to such approaches is challenging because they must work at a higher pace than they are used to. -
Employee health can lead efforts to make hospitals an age-friendly workplace
With 5.7 million workers employed in hospitals, population workforce aging trends are hitting the industry hard. -
How to customize HIPAA training
Whether you use an outside consultant or do it yourself, training staff in Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance should be customized to your own needs and situation.
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Case managers can join the fight against obesity epidemic
An alarming number of adults and children are obese, but the problem seems to be making slight declines as health plans and providers focus on preventing, rather than treating, the condition. -
Nurses support at-risk women through pregnancy, early childhood
Through the Nurse-Family Partnership at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, low-income women who are pregnant for the first time are getting support in their home throughout the pregnancy and until the child is two years old. -
Case Management Advisor - Full December 1, 2014 Issue in PDF
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Health plan brings weight management to members in the community
Capital District Physicians Health Plan is expanding its Weigh 2 Be weight-management program as part of its efforts to improve the health of the community and reduce the rise in preventable diseases caused by obesity. -
Weight-loss program involves the entire family
When young, obese California Medicaid beneficiaries enroll in Health Net’s weight management program, a health coach involves the entire family in the program, called Fit Families for Life.
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CMS flu shot reporting raises thorny issue of vaccination status of hospital workers
Patients will soon be able to check the influenza vaccination rates of healthcare workers at the nation’s hospitals through Hospitalcompare.gov, a website of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). That specter of public reporting has helped spur the rising rates of flu vaccination in hospitals, but it will also reveal the continuing problem of tracking the vaccination status of doctors, advanced practice nurses and physician assistants who are not hospital employees. -
CDC adds respirators, clarifies confusing issue of droplet, aerosol and airborne transmission
An issue that has caused considerable confusion and fear during the Ebola outbreak is the difference between airborne, aerosol and droplet transmission. There are clear differences, but they werent elucidated particularly well at the onset of Ebola cases in the U.S., leaving the public uninformed and then panicked when some reputable scientists warned that there was a small chance the Ebola virus could mutate and spread like a truly airborne pathogen such as measles.