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EMTALA Q & A: Can PAs provide on-call patient care?

Question: Imagine the following situation: John Smith presents to the ED of Community Hospital. Hugo Brown, MD, in the ED performs a medical screening examination and determines that Smith has an emergency medical condition.

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Does your organization have a ‘culture of safety?’ Here’s how to find out

Would you like some compelling evidence to present to administrators about a chronic safety problem? Do you want a foolproof way to achieve staff buy-in when a new patient safety initiative is implemented? How about finding out what staff really think about reporting safety concerns?

Collaborative cuts ICU infection rate in half

A 50% decrease in central-line infections and an increase in compliance with evidence-based practices from 30% to 95%. These are the dramatic results achieved by 10 hospitals participating in the two-year Greater Cincinnati Patient Safety ICU [Intensive Care Unit] Collaborative.

Patient Satisfaction Planner: Tiered structure helps ED improve flow, satisfaction

Between 2001 and 2005, average length of stay in the ED at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago has dropped from 85 minutes to 45 minutes. Throughput has fallen from 308 minutes to 230 minutes during the same period. In addition, patient satisfaction scores (Press Ganey Associates, South Bend, IN) have increased from 74.6% to 84%.

Patient Satisfaction Planner: Stroke program wins first Codman award for DM

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has named Swedish Medical Center in Seattle the winner of the inaugural Ernest Amory Codman Award in the disease-specific care category, for establishing a comprehensive program that deploys a coordinated team to assure comprehensive, timely, and efficient acute stroke care.

Patient Satisfaction Planner: Nurse liaison must communicate well

The staff in the pre-op area see the nurse liaisons interaction with patients and families as having a calming effect on the patient and family members, especially when there are delays, and [post-anesthesia care unit] nurses are relieved that the family is being taken care of so they can concentrate solely on the patients needs, explains Maureen Spangler, RN, CNOR, director of perioperative services at Lexington Medical Center in West Columbia, SC.

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