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Within 45 days after daily multidisciplinary patient care conferences were instituted at North Fulton Regional Hospital, the hospital's average length of stay dropped by more than a day and excess days decreased by more than 300 days within the first quarter of implementation.
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This spring during the H1N1 epidemic, registrations through EDs increased dramatically nationwide. The processes of virtually every patient access department were put to the test.
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Everything seems to be about health care these days. Everyone has an agenda on what is best, for whom, and how much it will cost whom.
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Your surgeon says she wants to use a medical device in a different manner than it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). She says he has the data to ensure it will be used safely, and the patient already has given informed consent.
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After a 31-year-old student and part-time clerk underwent an excisional biopsy on her left breast, the physician diagnosed the woman with cancer and recommended commencement of chemotherapy. About six months later, the woman came under the care of a hospital breast clinic and was evaluated by a general surgeon employed by the hospital who recommended a mastectomy.
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Patients may arrive for outpatient surgery, only to find out the bill is estimated to be more than $10,000.
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How would you like to get more than 9,000 people to view a procedure at your facility? Methodist University Hospital in Memphis recently accomplished this feat during the live webcast of a surgical procedure.
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A California hospital's recent settlement of a whistle-blower lawsuit reinforces the need for risk managers to be vigilant about preventing and seeking out sweetheart deals for physicians that may violate Medicare's anti-kickback statute, say attorneys familiar with the case.
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Risk managers have accepted, if not always embraced, the idea of admitting errors and apologizing after an adverse event, but figuring out exactly what to say can be a challenge.
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A 58-year-old man presented at the hospital for a heart transplant. His heart was removed and discarded, and a donor heart was transplanted into the man. The man never awoke from the surgery and died three days later. The man's estate sued the hospital and the physician who harvested the heart.
