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Transport team key to patient satisfaction
The patient transport team can be an overlooked link in the care process, but they can have a great influence on patient satisfaction. That is what Baylor Jack and Jane Hamilton Heart and Vascular Hospital in Dallas found out when it improved the patient experience with a Family Care Card.
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Info Card for Surgery Waiting Room Improves Satisfaction
That's where family members becoming increasingly anxious every minute without information. There are solutions.
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Violent threats to healthcare workers include patients, hospitalized criminals
Though we certainly wish otherwise, these are dangerous times in healthcare due to escalating violent behavior toward healthcare workers and threats to patients.
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Going to a passive needle safety system reduces injuries and costs
Switching from active to passive needle safety device dramatically reduced needlesticks in an 11-facility healthcare system, creating cost avoidance in reporting, treating, and follow-up that justified the additional expenditure for the devices.
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Healthcare workers urged to be vaccinated against seasonal flu
After last year’s poor flu vaccine efficacy, public health officials think they have a much better match for the 2015-2016 season and are urging healthcare workers to be immunized to protect themselves and patients.
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Pediatrician: We demonize vaccines at our peril
Following anti-vaccine statements made by Republican presidential candidates at a Sept. 16 debate, David W. Kimberlin, MD, wrote an opinion piece that was published in a local newspaper and provided to HEH upon request.
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IOM review: No vaccine-autism link, but rare adverse events linked to some routine shots
An analysis of more than 1,000 research articles concluded that few health problems are caused by or clearly associated with vaccines, but there are some adverse outcomes of note.
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Science trumps candidates: MMR vaccine, shot schedule safe
As vaccine-preventable diseases continue to resurge and threaten both patients and healthcare workers, 23 million television viewers recently heard reckless comments on vaccine safety by men who aspire to the highest office in the nation.
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Following last year’s misfire, EH programs may get more pushback, questions about flu shots
Employee health professionals with voluntary seasonal influenza vaccination can expect a tougher sell this year to skeptical healthcare workers.
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Targeting low literacy patients pays off for health system
When an analysis of the cases of patients who were being readmitted showed that a significant number had low healthcare literacy and other social issues, the staff at Ochsner Health developed a project to identify the patients who need extra help in following their discharge plans.