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An ED manager as the driving force behind a capital campaign for a new facility? It has proved to be a winning formula at Carondelet Health Networks St. Marys Hospital in Tucson, AZ, where a successful $11 million-plus campaign has led to the opening of a new state-of-the-art ED.
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If you had reduced the mean door-to-doctor time in your ED from 64.3 minutes to 39.8 minutes (a 38.1% improvement) in seven months, youd probably be pretty happy. But for Maureen Kelly-Nichols, RN, MSA, the ED nurse director at Providence Hospital in Southfield, MI, that was not the key measure of success in her recent Six Sigma project.
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While the two new requirements involving hand-offs and medication labeling are the most obvious changes in the 2006 National Patient Safety Goals just released by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, there are other, more subtle changes that also are critically important for ED managers to know about.
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Less than two years ago, the ED at Carondelet Health Networks St. Marys Hospital in Tucson, AZ, was an 8,000-square-foot facility designed to handle 25,000 patients a year, but treating about 50,000. There was no storage space, one utility room, and pumps and carts were sitting in the hallways.
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The chances that a surgical patient in a U.S. hospital will receive appropriate antibiotic prophylaxis with drugs both administered and discontinued in a timely fashion remains essentially a flip of the coin.
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Emerging as the bane of cruise ships and nursing homes, norovirus with its ability to cause severe gastroenteritis, persist in the environment, and spread via contaminated food or human contact would seem to be the perfect candidate for a nosocomial pathogen of the most troublesome variety.
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Health care epidemiologists are reporting an increase in bloodstream infections (BSIs) due to the use of needleless mechanical valve devices that connect to central venous catheters.
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When one worker’s choice in perfume is another worker’s trigger for an allergic reaction, does the Americans with Disabilities Act apply?
