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In employee health, safety culture is the Holy Grail. If you have a strong one, employees are more likely to comply with rules and use equipment designed to protect them and their patients. But what is a safety culture? How do you get one?
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If youre struggling to improve your influenza vaccination rates, consider this: You may need to tailor your message to particular hospital units.
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A year after states began drafting smallpox vaccination plans, preparedness is moving into a new phase with a new challenge: How do you sustain those efforts?
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The Joint Commission has created two options designed to address legal disclosure concerns related to its Periodic Performance Review (PPR). The PPR is an integral component of the Joint Commissions new accreditation process that debuts in 2004.
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The Joint Commission is seeking volunteer hospitals with intensive care units (ICU) that would like to be considered for participation in a pilot test of six proposed ICU core measures.
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Dont forget, new Patient Safety Goals including reducing nosocomial infections go into effect as of Jan 1, 2004.
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As Mindy Owen, RN, CRN, CCM, travels around the country for the Commission for Case Manager Certification (CCMC), shes always surprised to find how few case managers are familiar with the standards of practice under which they operate.
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There is much to rejoice about in the final rule of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), with many of the most vexing parts of the law either clarified or eliminated altogether, but there still is plenty to keep you busy.
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These highlights of the final Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) rule were summarized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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As the federal government, private payers, and accrediting agencies crack down on overutilization, underutilization, fraud, and abuse, hospital case managers need to keep an even closer eye on what is going on in their hospitals, experts say.
