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Last year, quality managers who were expecting major changes from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations 2004 National Patient Safety Goals got a bit of a surprise: The goals were largely the same as the previous years. This time, however, that wont be the case.
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Do you think that a kidnapper could walk undetected through the halls of your hospital by using a fake ID badge and get away with a baby? Thats exactly what happened at one Salt Lake City facility, when a woman wearing hospital scrubs and a makeshift badge managed to abduct a 3-day-old infant.
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Is your hospitals emergency department (ED) reporting record diversion hours, with patient volume and acuity higher than ever? Is the practice of holding admitted patients for long periods in the ED becoming the rule rather than the exception?
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The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) will discuss reimbursement for physician-owned ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) at its March 18-19 meeting.
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Nurse practitioners in Glasgow, Scotland, will begin performing minor surgery in dermatology and plastic surgery after completing a credentialing program recently introduced by a large association of hospitals in Scotland and Glasgow Caledonian University.
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With 45 million people in the United States speaking a language other than English and another 19 million people with limited proficiency in English, it is more important than ever for same-day surgery programs to make sure that interpreters are available and qualified to translate pre-op and discharge instructions.
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Recently at a conference, I was asked about what frustrates me the most out of all the work we do. It took me less than a second to reply: expense adjustment.
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After a group of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) patients in Toronto in 2003 was tracked to a surgical patient, health care providers there realized no guidelines from international or U.S. groups addressed how to handle SARS patients or avoid SARS transmission in the OR.
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The Disease-Specific Care certification offered by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is designed to evaluate disease management and chronic care services provided by hospitals, health plans, disease management service companies, and other care delivery settings.
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With a care coordination program in place that has dramatically reduced acute care and emergency department utilization by the chronic frail elderly while enhancing patients quality of life, Sutter Health Sacramento (CA) Sierra Region was looking for a way to take the program to yet a higher level, says Jan Van der Mei, RN, care management director.
