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Increasingly common across the health care landscape, construction and renovation can make patient safety challenging. The need to expand facilities or upgrade existing space creates dust and particles that can easily become aerosolized, potentially transporting infectious Aspergillus and other fungal and bacterial organisms toward vulnerable patient populations.
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Passport Health Plan's Mommy Steps program helps at-risk pregnant Medicaid recipients get the care and psychosocial help they need to overcome the obstacles to a healthy pregnancy.
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By meeting at-risk pregnant women face-to-face in their physician's office, a case manager from BlueCross BlueShield is able to successfully engage the Medicaid recipients in case management and work to meet their needs throughout the pregnancy.
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The old saying "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," couldn't be more appropriate than when it comes to preterm births.
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Emergency department administrators are well aware that crowding in the ED is associated with poorer patient outcomes, longer hospital stays, and decreased patient satisfaction.
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Select Health of South Carolina is collaborating with community partners to ensure that pregnant women in their First Choice health plan's Medicaid population have full-term, healthy babies.
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It must seem as though the number of important things to read and digest that come across a quality manager's desk is never-ending.
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The hospital of the future may have small rooms on each floor for night shift staff to take energizing naps. With an eye on fatigue as a major safety concern, the new draft version of hospital construction guidelines includes a requirement for staff rest areas, or nap rooms.
