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Would you like your organizations care of patients with chest pain to be something to brag about? Consider obtaining accreditation from the Columbus, OH-based Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC).
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More than 4,000 hospitals currently share data through the initiative, which assesses how often caregivers follow 10 clinical care steps proven to improve outcomes in heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia patients.
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Case managers with the Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA), a nonprofit medical indemnity association, follow a practice model that differs significantly from that used at most other insurance companies, says Melissa Bojorquez, ACBSW, MBA, CCM, supervisor for the HMSA case management program.
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Are patients on gurneys in hallways a typical sight in your organizations emergency department (ED)? The growing problem of ED overcrowding is potentially dangerous to patients, resulting in
the new leadership standard on managing patient flow from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
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Is your hospital prepared for a pandemic or any clinical crisis circumstance that results in an unusually high rate of admissions?
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Since passage of the Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) in 1990, the living will a form of advance directive that spells out the signers wishes for end-of-life care and termination of care has become an almost automatic subject in any discussion of death or resuscitative medicine. But is the living will the useful tool that polls indicate most Americans believe it is?
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Living Will, Health care power of attorney, and Health care advance directive are defined.
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Critics call his practice boutique medicine or wealthcare, but the way Michigan physician John Blanchard, MD sees it, he and his partners at Premier Private Physicians are putting control of health care back in the hands of their patients.
