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Statement: I heard you speak in Dallas a couple of months ago, and you said that anesthesia can help to make or break a surgical environment. I still am offended by that remark.
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A survey of freestanding ambulatory surgery centers by the American Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers (AAASC) examined ASC ownership trends between 2004 and 2006.
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How would you like to drop the number of cases pending against your program by more than 60%? A full disclosure policy that includes apologizing to patients and waiving charges on a case-by-case basis has had a dramatic impact on the outpatient surgery program and other departments at University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor.
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Does your competency assessment program address age-, cultural-, and gender-specific competencies? Does your program address management and administrative issues?
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Intense feelings of anxiety and humiliation, not to mention fears of being sued or professionally censured, are extremely common. Not surprisingly, the appearances of defensive and self-protective strategies that urge concealment are common as well.
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Following a successful pilot project that decreased the patient-case manager ratio, Our Lady of the Lake Medical Center in Baton Rouge, LA, hired additional staff, reducing the caseload of case managers on the medical unit and giving them more time to interact with the patients and concentrate on discharge planning needs.
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Thanks to an intensive program monitoring the core measures requirements throughout the hospital, Methodist Medical Center has been ranked among the top three hospitals in the state of Tennessee for compliance with the core measures for two years in a row.
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When a representative from the case management department began attending the daily meeting of a large hospitalist group at St. Vincent's Medical Center, the Jacksonville, FL, hospital began to see an improvement in patient throughput almost immediately.
