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Transitioning Patients to Skilled Nursing Facilities Is Challenging
Too often, patient information is lost or inadequate during transitions from hospital to skilled nursing facilities. This causes challenges that case managers can help overcome.
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Tips for Reducing Long Length of Stay Cases
Long length-of-stay patients can cost hospitals hundreds of thousands of dollars in unreimbursed care each year. Hospital case managers can help reduce these cases through consistent care management and team support.
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Hospital Case Managers Can Learn From Lean
One effective way for hospitals to improve patient care and reduce rehospitalizations and longer lengths of stay (LOS) is to take a Lean approach. Lean and Lean Six Sigma principles can help a healthcare organization eliminate waste and improve quality, and outcomes. For example, after employing Lean principles, Mid Coast-Parkview Health in Brunswick, ME, shortened patient stays of 30 or more days by more than 20%, saving $124,000.
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Appellate Court Finds Expert’s Affidavit Sufficient Evidence of Triable Issue of Fact
A motion for summary judgment was inappropriate here because of the expert’s substantive affidavit. This expert provided more than a simple declaration stating that the expert was retained and would eventually opine; this expert, who was appropriately qualified, offered a specific opinion on issues of the standard of care, delays in diagnosing and treatment, and deviations of the standard of care.
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Court of Appeals: Plaintiffs Failed to Present Issue of Fact by Not Using Expert Testimony
This case reveals lessons in substance and legal procedure, as the defendant hospital and physicians successfully defeated the medical malpractice claim in multiple forums and prior to the need for a jury.
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Cyber Risks Will Continue to Grow in 2020
With cybersecurity, one of the biggest patient safety threats is ransomware. Ransomware attacks have become easier to launch, and attackers increasingly are targeting smaller healthcare organizations where cyberdefenses may be less sophisticated and employees less savvy about how to spot threats.
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When Will the Next Emerging Infection Hit?
While infection preventionists get caught up in day-to-day concerns of a multifaceted job, there is always the threat of an emerging infection one plane ride away from virtually anywhere on the globe.
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New Approach Needed to Address Workplace Violence
Workplace violence occurs at rates more than four times higher than in other industries. Patients and family are under stress, and often take it out on the physicians, nurses, and other employees. Any solution must begin with collecting data on how violent incidents occur, including near misses.
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2020 to Bring More Focus on Patient Safety, Technology Solutions
Patient safety will be the primary concern for risk managers in 2020 as government regulators and accrediting bodies continue to raise their expectations in this area for healthcare organizations, several experts predict.
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Routine Drug Prophylaxis in Dentistry Usually Unnecessary, May Cause Patient Harm
With antibiotic stewardship now required in hospitals and increasingly normalized in other healthcare settings, dental offices are something out of an outlier.