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A balanced scorecard showing case mix, length of stay, charges per case, and other data on a monthly and quarterly basis helps the case managers at INTEGRIS Rural Health focus on areas where their hospital needs to improve.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) National Patient Safety Goal requiring all medications to be labeled sounds simple enough, but its proving to be difficult for many organizations.
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A new study from HealthGrades, a Golden, CO-based health care ratings company, names the top 5% of hospitals in the country and also shows that this group has mortality rates that are 27% lower than other hospitals, with a 14% lower risk of complications.
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The patient flow standards of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) are about planning, says Carol Gilhooley, director, survey methods development, in the division of standards and survey methods for the Oakbrook Terrace, IL-based agency.
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At some point in the not-too-distant future, your hospitals reimbursement is likely to hinge on its performance on quality measures, at least for some diagnoses.
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With a recent study highlighting the lack of surge capacity in the nations emergency departments (EDs) and concerns about how health care facilities would respond in the event of pandemic flu, its imperative that hospitals find meaningful patient throughput solutions, says James Bryant, director of emergency and transport services at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC.
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The story hits the news every once in a while, but it always seems like such an extreme case: A hospital staffer confesses to killing multiple patients over time, usually with fatal injections and often under the pretense of a "mercy killing."
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Creating a better defense against health care workers who would harm your patients means working closely with your human resources department, but prepare yourself for a challenge.
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When it comes to the specifics of exactly what to tell the patient, risk mangers and physicians often disagree and -- surprisingly — the physicians are often more in favor of telling the patient the whole story than the risk managers are.
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A survey conducted by Thomas H. Gallagher, MD, included scenarios that presented medical errors to the physician and risk manager respondents and then asked them how they would disclose the error to patients.
