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Brace for millions of more patients. With the recent Supreme Court ruling that cleared a path for most provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to proceed, you might see a measurable increase in surgery patients as early as next year and continuing through the end of the decade, predicts the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN).
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Butler County Health Care Center (BCHCC) in David City, NE, is small it has 25 beds serving a rural community of 2,500 but the administrators think big. Using a program that enhances teamwork, the hospital has reduced patient falls by 88% and medication errors that reach the patient by 30%.
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If you are the director or employee of a hospital-based surgery facility, don't think this topic doesn't apply to you. Read on.
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Several legal cases decided in recent months have rendered material discoverable that doctors thought was protected. These cases in places as varied as New York, New England, and Illinois have caused some physicians to question whether they should participate in peer review processes if their comments and discussions can end up being used against them in civil litigation.
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In a first-of-its-kind survey, The Leapfrog Group graded more than 2,600 hospitals of all sizes and types in the United States on how they performed in more than two dozen weighted patient safety measures both process and outcomes.
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As the National Committee for Quality Assurance hopes that all-cause readmission rate reporting by health plans will assist in creating more consideration of patient care across the continuum, the National Quality Forum (NQF) hopes a new measurement framework for multiple chronic conditions will likewise help improve care in and out of the hospital.
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Everyone knows that in order to have the kind of hospital that gets an A grade in safety from The Leapfrog Group, you need to have an organization whose culture values safety. But how do you know that you do? And is there a way you can measure it?
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For years, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) state operations manual has had guidelines for surveyors to assess issues related to patient safety at hospitals.
