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Emerging Infections Threaten Healthcare Workers
In another grim reminder that healthcare workers are on the frontlines against emerging infections, an outbreak of Lassa viral hemorrhagic fever in Nigeria has infected 14 medical staff and killed four of them.
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Act as ‘Gatekeeper’ Against Medical Necessity Claims Denials
Patient access departments continue to see medical necessity-related claims denials due to increasing and complex payer requirements. Ensure all tests, procedures, and hospital stays have been verified for medical necessity and be sure to educate employees on how to interpret medical necessity checks.
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Do You Have a Toxic Employee?
Toxic employees in healthcare can undermine patient and worker safety while driving off your best and brightest employees, a corporate psychologist tells Hospital Employee Health.
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How Can Your Department Better Measure Patient Experience?
Patient access departments are assessing the customer service they provide by creating their own satisfaction surveys, conducting peer-to-peer critiques, and recording all registration interactions.
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Prepare for Changes to Hazardous Drug Standards
The deadline to adopt new requirements for protecting healthcare workers potentially exposed to hazardous drugs has been extended, giving employee health professionals more time to define their role in medical surveillance and other areas.
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Employee Health Steps Up in a Rough Flu Season
Employee health professionals stepping up to protect workers and patients during a severe flu season can become part of the outbreak they are trying to prevent.
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Planning Your Success
Following last month's strong response to useful tips on saving money, our columnist decided to offer some more information about putting everyone on the same page and ensuring financial success.
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Misunderstood Overtime Rules Could Cost ASCs Thousands of Dollars
Within the past seven years, federal lawsuit filings regarding wage overtime rules have increased by 30%, a trend that should jar surgery centers into taking preventive actions.
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The Challenge of Improving the Nursing Hiring Pipeline
Any program designed to increase the number of new nurses who go into ambulatory nursing must address early exposure to ambulatory care in nursing schools. Developing an ambulatory nursing residency program is one possible solution. It might not be feasible for every ASC, but there are some smaller steps administrators could take to improve orientation and training of new nurses or training of experienced nurses who are new to ambulatory care.
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Helping New Nurses Thrive in ASC Setting
New nurse graduates could be a great solution to filling staff needs at ASCs if they are supported through training programs and their preceptors.