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A program that pairs new case managers with a preceptor for eight weeks and a mentor for a year has increased staff satisfaction and reduced turnover for the case management department at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC.
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Following a systemwide initiative, Catholic Healthcare Partners has reduced its average length of stay by 2%, potentially avoiding 18,000 hospital days in the multistate hospital system with headquarters in Cincinnati.
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Within 45 days after daily multidisciplinary patient care conferences were instituted at North Fulton Regional Hospital, the hospital's average length of stay dropped by more than a day and excess days decreased by more than 300 days within the first quarter of implementation.
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This spring during the H1N1 epidemic, registrations through EDs increased dramatically nationwide. The processes of virtually every patient access department were put to the test.
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Everything seems to be about health care these days. Everyone has an agenda on what is best, for whom, and how much it will cost whom.
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Your surgeon says she wants to use a medical device in a different manner than it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). She says he has the data to ensure it will be used safely, and the patient already has given informed consent.
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After a 31-year-old student and part-time clerk underwent an excisional biopsy on her left breast, the physician diagnosed the woman with cancer and recommended commencement of chemotherapy. About six months later, the woman came under the care of a hospital breast clinic and was evaluated by a general surgeon employed by the hospital who recommended a mastectomy.
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Patients may arrive for outpatient surgery, only to find out the bill is estimated to be more than $10,000.
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How would you like to get more than 9,000 people to view a procedure at your facility? Methodist University Hospital in Memphis recently accomplished this feat during the live webcast of a surgical procedure.
