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Editor's Picks
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Grady Hospital gets passing marks
Some good news for a change at Atlanta's beleaguered Grady Memorial Hospital: After being placed on conditional status in the wake of a less-than-perfect Joint Commission inspection last winter, Grady earned full accreditation last week. Atlanta's safety-net hospital has been in severe, well-documented financial distress for years, but with a new governance model, new CEO Michael Young, and now Joint Commission accreditation, the facility may finally be able to see some light at the end of the tunnel. [ Read More]
Patients being moved to the new, improved—and smaller—USC hospital
Better doesn't always have to mean bigger—but what becomes of this downsizing remains to be seen. In California, Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, the county's main public hospital that has been housed in an outdated Depression-era building for decades, this week completed a move to a new state-of-the-art facility that is more than 200 beds smaller. Why? Too much money to build and too much money too run at the larger size. The thing is, county supervisors approved the downsizing in 1997, according to this story—14 emergency rooms have closed since then, leaving plenty of people worried about adequate bed space for the poor. [ Read More]
Toys banned from clinics because of infection risk
Some clinics in Great Britain have banned toys from waiting rooms because of the risk of spreading infections among children. Not everyone is happy about it; the story quotes one physician saying the move is "bureaucracy gone mad." Me, I'm all for doing all we can to prevent the spread of infections. Generally speaking. But the toys in the waiting room? I think I'm in the "bureaucracy gone mad" camp on this one. [ Read More]
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Model for Success
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Running a medical group has never been more complex. But many practices have found ways to not only survive—but thrive. [Read More] |
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Leaders Forum
Critical Test Result Management: Time for Solutions
Due to communication errors within American hospitals, many patients suffer consequences from delayed communication of critical test results and significant, unexpected findings. In ongoing efforts to fix this, The Joint Commission has named improvement of effective communication among caregivers its No. 2 National Patient Safety Goal for the fifth year. [Read More]
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Audio Feature
Tracey Moorhead, president and CEO of DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance, discusses the opportunities for population health improvement and DM companies in a medical home and the changes they may need to make. [Listen Now]
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