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The patient flow standards of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) are about planning, says Carol Gilhooley, director, survey methods development, in the division of standards and survey methods for the Oakbrook Terrace, IL-based agency.
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At some point in the not-too-distant future, your hospitals reimbursement is likely to hinge on its performance on quality measures, at least for some diagnoses.
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With a recent study highlighting the lack of surge capacity in the nations emergency departments (EDs) and concerns about how health care facilities would respond in the event of pandemic flu, its imperative that hospitals find meaningful patient throughput solutions, says James Bryant, director of emergency and transport services at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC.
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The story hits the news every once in a while, but it always seems like such an extreme case: A hospital staffer confesses to killing multiple patients over time, usually with fatal injections and often under the pretense of a "mercy killing."
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Creating a better defense against health care workers who would harm your patients means working closely with your human resources department, but prepare yourself for a challenge.
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When it comes to the specifics of exactly what to tell the patient, risk mangers and physicians often disagree and -- surprisingly — the physicians are often more in favor of telling the patient the whole story than the risk managers are.
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A survey conducted by Thomas H. Gallagher, MD, included scenarios that presented medical errors to the physician and risk manager respondents and then asked them how they would disclose the error to patients.
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While the severity of malpractice claims continues to rise -- growing at a rate of 7.5% annually -- the frequency of malpractice claims has decreased by 1% over the past year.
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A patient died of natural causes at the defendant hospital. However, when the funeral home came to collect the body, it took the hospital 2 1/2 days to find the corpse.
