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Is your organization on the fence about participating with the Washington, DC-based Leapfrog Group's Hospital Quality and Safety Survey? If so, why not practice first?
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The American Nurses Association, the New York State Nurses Association, and the Washington State Nurses Association filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), claiming that HHS allows hospitals that fail to meet federal nurse staffing requirements to participate in Medicare, thereby endangering patients.
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Without procedures and standardized ways of doing things, the complex process of caring for hospitalized patients would be difficult. Procedures have a central role to play in quality and patient safety.
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When members of Passport Health Plan are hospitalized in the intensive care unit for asthma, the plan's asthma disease managers visit them on-site and work with the hospital's asthma educator to help them learn to manage their disease.
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Optima Health's asthma disease management program has generated $2.10 in savings for every dollar spent on members who have been continuously enrolled over a five-year period.
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The saying, "It takes a village" applies to asthma control as well, says Pamela Persichilli, RNC, director of clinical operations for Horizon NJ Health.
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Health plans across the country are coming up with innovative ways to tackle asthma, a disease that costs $11.6 billion a year in direct health care costs, according to the American Lung Association.
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Blue Cross of California State Sponsored Business takes a comprehensive approach to asthma management, partnering with the Fresno Valley Air Quality Board on ways to improve air quality in Fresno County, piloting a project to help physician practices improve their asthma treatment methods, and developing a three-tiered approach to managing members' asthma.
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The implementation of rapid response teams in seven different facilities in the Seton Healthcare Network in Austin, TX, is a virtual "living laboratory" of the many different ways hospitals can create and implement rapid response teams and they all seem to be working, says Alice Davis, RN, BSN, senior project coordinator, medical staff services.
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Despite widespread conversion to sharps safety devices, hospitals are more likely to be cited for violations of the bloodborne pathogens standard than any other standard.
