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A new report from The Joint Commission recommends targeted strategies to address language and cultural issues that increasingly pose challenges to hospitals seeking to deliver safe, effective care to an increasingly diverse American population.
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HealthGrades, an independent health care ratings company in Golden, CO, has compiled the first national database of physician malpractice records available to the public.
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Even a mild pandemic could result in school closings, cancellation of public gatherings, voluntary quarantines, and absenteeism of employees who must leave work to care for children or elderly relatives, according to interim guidance on community mitigation released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The U.S. House of Representatives has approved the Trauma Care Systems Planning and Development Act (H.R. 727), which, according to the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), will increase the availability of trauma care across the United States and thus improve the survival rate for patients suffering from traumatic injuries.
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If you were frustrated by the slow delivery of influenza vaccine last fall, public health officials have a message for you: Get used to it.
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AHC Media appreciates the faith you have placed in us to provide you with practical, authoritative information. As a token of our gratitude for your support, we would like to provide you with the free white paper, The Joint Commission: What Hospitals Can Expect in 2007.
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At 9 p.m. on March 5, a woman who had been a patient in the ED at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa, FL, returned there in scrubs and claimed to be a temporary worker. Although she had no ID badge, staff accepted her story that she had lost it. She was allowed to enter the ED and worked for 10 hours as a patient care technician.
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When you learn that a hospital has a rapid response team (RRT), your initial assumption might be that it is being staffed and managed by the ICU, and in many cases you'd be right. But in a growing number of facilities, particularly smaller community hospitals, that role is being filled by the ED.
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"Overcrowding? What overcrowding?" That could well be the slogan of EDs in Fort Wayne, IN, where diversion rates in its five hospitals are consistently below national averages.
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Failing to document that a critical lab value was read back, if your ED's policy requires this. Failing to realize that there are long delays in reporting urgent test results to ED physicians.
