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Healthcare Workers Fired for Refusing Flu Shots
A hospital system in Minnesota has fired approximately 50 healthcare workers for refusing flu shots, igniting a battle with a nurses’ union that is filing grievances to restore personnel to their jobs.
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Eroding Profits, Compromised Benchmarks
Is your profit margin not what it used to be? Has your turnaround time increased? You are not alone. It happens to the best facilities, both hospitals and freestanding surgery centers.
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Screening Patients Can Be Tricky, Particularly Without Electronic Records
Identifying the right patients for outpatient surgery can be tricky. Surgery centers must ensure patients have no conditions or take no medications that would jeopardize a safe surgical outcome.
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Balancing Needs of Multigenerational Staff Challenging for ASC Directors
Balancing the needs of older and younger employees can be challenging because of societal differences in a multigenerational workforce.
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Follow These Strategies to Prevent Problems With Dissatisfied Patients
Unhappy patients can cause major headaches for a surgery center. Problems could lead to financial and legal issues.
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ASCs Can Take Steps to Prevent and Handle Sexual Harassment Allegations
Surgery centers can take several steps to reduce the likelihood of a sexual harassment claim or to handle one without it heading to court.
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Sexual Harassment Can Cost an ASC Millions
Sexual harassment allegations made headlines for weeks in late 2017, targeting politicians, actors, movie moguls, and others. In recent years, similar allegations also resulted in surgery centers and other healthcare organizations paying millions in fines and lawsuit damages after such allegations were ignored.
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Compliance Measures for the Case Manager’s Daily Practice — Part 1
Like many things in healthcare, times have changed for conditions of participation and other standards of compliance established over the last several years. These include elements such as the Two-Midnight Rule under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System and the Important Message from Medicare. CMS, The Joint Commission, and other certifying bodies have begun to audit and evaluate case management compliance in hospitals.
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ACOs Yield Quality Lessons for Hospitals, May Expand
Medicare accountable care organizations have yielded valuable lessons about value-based care and positioned some hospitals to be competitive in the future, with the most recent results showing participants improving quality and reaping financial rewards.
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Program Helps Senior Citizens Live at Home and Stay Out of the Nursing Home
Geisinger Health System’s Living Independently for Elders (LIFE) program provides medical care, therapy, adult day activities, and home visits for elderly patients who meet the medical criteria for a nursing home admission.