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Would you like your organizations care of patients with chest pain to be something to brag about? Consider obtaining accreditation from the Columbus, OH-based Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC).
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More than 4,000 hospitals currently share data through the initiative, which assesses how often caregivers follow 10 clinical care steps proven to improve outcomes in heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia patients.
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Case managers with the Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA), a nonprofit medical indemnity association, follow a practice model that differs significantly from that used at most other insurance companies, says Melissa Bojorquez, ACBSW, MBA, CCM, supervisor for the HMSA case management program.
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Are patients on gurneys in hallways a typical sight in your organizations emergency department (ED)? The growing problem of ED overcrowding is potentially dangerous to patients, resulting in
the new leadership standard on managing patient flow from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
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Is your hospital prepared for a pandemic or any clinical crisis circumstance that results in an unusually high rate of admissions?
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If your organization was found to have a high rate of surgical infections, you could expect to face bad publicity, potential malpractice lawsuits, and major problems with the Joint Commission. But are the data telling an accurate story?
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New York City may have a reputation as a fast-paced metropolis where most people are too busy to give you the time of day, but the emergency department (ED) at Jack D. Weiler Hospital, one of three EDs in Bronxs Montefiore Medical Center, has won over patients with an approach focused on friendliness and TLC.
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A series of multidisciplinary initiatives has resulted in a 1.3-day decrease in length of stay (LOS) at Hackensack (NJ) University Medical Center (HUMC).
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Tragic errors caused by administration of vincristine into the subarachnoid space of chemotherapy patients continue to occur, even though these wrong-route errors are preventable, according to a recent Sentinel Event Alert issued by JCAHO.
