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Rising patient infection rates. Adverse patient outcomes. Increased risk to staff. If these arent compelling enough reasons to comply with recent hand hygiene guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), consider this: The only new 2004 National Patient Safety Goal from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations addresses this area specifically.
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Would you like to be responsible for a million-dollar increase in your hospitals bottom line?
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Are you compiling and reporting performance measurement date from two core measures, as required by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations? As of January 2004, youll need to make that three measures.
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Nurses in HealthPartners' outpatient case management program go through extensive training to help them assess a patient's readiness to change.
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As an adjunct to its disease management programs, ConnectiCare, a regional HMO based in Farmington, CT, has launched a pharmacy quality improvement program to promote the use of medications that are nationally acceptable treatment standards and to identify and prevent potential drug safety adverse events.
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Most of us have been there dealing with the patient who refuses to comply with our treatment plan, who is uncooperative and generally unpleasant.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued guidance advising states that hospital workers and others caring for patients infected with the monkeypox virus and close contacts of people or animals confirmed to have the virus should receive a smallpox vaccination to protect against the possibility of contracting the illness.
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has published two proposed rules in the Federal Register to enhance worker protections from respiratory hazards on the job.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a 3.3% increase in Medicare payment rates to home health agencies for fiscal year 2004.
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Although health care organizations are using innovative strategies to recruit and retain nurses and federal, state, and local government agencies are providing financial support to help alleviate shortages, the national nursing shortage will continue to be one of the greatest challenges to the health care industry for many years, according to a report issued by Fitch Ratings, an international credit rating agency based in New York City.
