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Surgeons Still Forgetting To Remove Objects from PatientsWhy do hospital teams unintentionally leave more than 30 types of surgical tools or other items inside their patients, a category of hospital error that California officials say is the second most common preventable adverse event in acute care? And why does the number of these forgotten items continue to increase? State health officials want to find out, and propose using $800,000 in administrative penalties collected from hospitals since 2007 for a collaborative project to study the problem. [ Read More]
Top Hospitals are Improving Faster, Says HealthGrades StudyHealthGrades recently released its eight annual HealthGrades Annual Hospital Quality and Clinical Excellence study and the results show that the top 5% of U.S. hospitals are improving faster than the rest of the field. The same top hospitals have a 29% lower risk adjusted mortality rate, as well as a 9% lower risk adjusted complication rate than other U.S. hospitals. [ Read More]
Hospital Creates Electronic Medication List to Achieve Consistency, Help PatientsIn 2007, The Joint Commission made an addition to Goal #8 regarding medication reconciliation: Along with compiling a list of medications upon admission, each patient must receive a list of his or her medications upon discharge. Washington Hospital Healthcare System in Fremont, CA, embarked on a mission to comply with this goal by implementing a new admission and discharge process concerning medication reconciliation. [ Read More]
Live ED Overhaul Webcast on February 23Join HealthLeaders Media on February 23 for HealthLeaders Media Rounds: ED Overhaul: Reduce costs, improve quality, and increase satisfaction from 9 a.m.-noon, PST. This three-hour Webcast features discussion—including interactive Q&A—of the key issues impacting ED management. Hear top executives from Scripps Health, Tomball Regional Hospital, William Beaumont Hospital, and Methodist Healthcare share solutions to: crowding and wait times, streamlining the admission process, ED and hospital integration, staffing plans that reduce costs and increase coverage during peak hours, physician alignment, and quality and patient safety improvement. For more information and to register click here. To attend the program live on the Scripps La Jolla campus, click here.
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Five Strategies that Prove Healthcare is Still a Growth Industry
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The Sports Center
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Famous athletes and big sports programs may be the public face of sports medicine, but at its core are local communities and, increasingly, the unconventional athlete. [Read More] |
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Leaders Forum
Length of Stay: The Management Headache That Will Not Go Away: The current financial crisis notwithstanding, operating margins have continued to shrink and raising capital has become a daunting task. This increasing financial pressure comes at a time when EMR and other technology investments are needed to stay viable as a quality healthcare provider. Unless you have a lot of empty beds, improving patient throughput is key to successfully managing this pressure, say contributors William F. Ott, Jr., and Michael N. Abrams. [Read More]
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Audio Feature
Blair Sadler, former CEO of San Diego Rady Children's Hospital and now a senior fellow with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, discusses how hospitals are using the arts to reduce patient anxiety. [Listen Now]
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