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Consider making your ED more kid-friendly with these tips from Janice Frohman, MS, RN, administrative director for emergency services at WakeMed in Raleigh, NC, and Betty Jo Torres, RN, clinical director of the ED at Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale, CA:
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What can we say to an ambulance crew who bring a patient to our hospital when we think the patient would be better cared for at another facility? If we have a good reason, can we tell them to take the patient elsewhere without risking an EMTALA violation?
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It was a tragic story that received national media attention: A 9-month-old died of a morphine overdose administered in a hospital, and the error was traced back to an unseen decimal point in a physicians order.
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Russell Kendzior, executive director of the National Floor Safety Institute (NFSI), offers this advice on how proper floor maintenance can reduce falls in health care facilities:
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Many cleaning products leave floors more slippery than they were before cleaning, the National Floor Safety Institute (NFSI), reports.
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A virtual anticoagulation clinic is being credited with dramatic improvements in patient safety at Abington (PA) Memorial Hospital, which recently won the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety Award from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) recently announced that it will revise the fixed and variable performance areas evaluated during random unannounced surveys, starting in 2004.
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News: A man was admitted to a hospital after presenting to the emergency department (ED) with chest pain. After an initial cardiac catheterization revealed serious coronary disease, open-heart surgery was performed.
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At the Seventh HIPAA Summit held in Baltimore in mid-September, Doctor HIPAA former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) executive William Braithwaite said that while Transactions and Code Sets (T&CS) testing should have started in April at the latest, vendors should have provided software to all their clients and completed testing, clearinghouses should have finished testing for all customers, and health plans should have finished testing all transactions with providers and clearinghouses, the reality was that much of the testing still was being done and some entities hadnt yet started.
