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More than 24% of all U.S. hospitals reuse single-use medical devices (SUDs), according to the Food and Drug Administration.
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Keeping up with credentials and privileges for 85 physicians plus the staff members of a busy four-operating room multispecialty center is not an easy task, but the staff at Salinas (CA) Surgery Center has developed a system that works.
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You know that you have a competent, well-trained staff, but if your documentation doesnt reflect up-to-date training, certifications, and licenses, you dont meet accreditation standards.
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Safety-oriented planning should precede building process; test interventions for improving safety.
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Although frequently cited deficiencies vary from state to state, there are a few that experts interviewed by Hospital Home Health point to as commonly recurring problems for home health agencies throughout all states...
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Your employees face different challenges than hospital-based personnel face, so they cant be expected to follow every guideline and process used in a hospital, right? Wrong, say infection control experts interviewed by Hospital Home Health.
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The biggest change in the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) recently approved hand-washing guidelines is the approval of alcohol-based hand rubs as an accepted method of cleaning hands between patients.
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Because intravenous therapy is handled by home care personnel, Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) guidelines on prevention of intravenous catheter infections especially is applicable to home care, suggests Michele L. Pearson, MD, medical epidemiologist for the CDCs Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion in Atlanta.
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Home care providers still are struggling to obtain authorizations from managed care organizations (MCOs) for medically necessary and appropriate care.
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Medicare tests program for smoking cessation; CMS proposes tracking hospital referrals to HHAs.
