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HealthLeaders Media Community and Rural Hospital Weekly - May 26, 2010


Quickie Quiz: What's Your Adverse Events Intelligence? Cheryl Clark, Editor, Community Hospitals Anyone who wants to get a sense of the number and type of adverse events occurring in hospitals need only look at California, where public health officials recently produced a large database of such mistakes discovered within 450 facilities. This is a grim topic, but since the idea in healthcare is to always learn from our mistakes, I thought it instructional to present some of the more interesting findings in the form of a multiple choice quiz. [Read More]
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Editor's Picks
Nine More Hospitals Fined $550,000 for Putting Patients at Risk The 11th and latest round of California fines against hospitals for putting patients in immediate jeopardy of death or serious harm brings the total number of such incidents to 156, which occurred at 108 hospitals, or about 25% of the total. Nearly $5 million has been assessed in penalties. [Read More] Ready or Not, Tech-Savvy e-Patients are Coming HealthLeaders Media Senior Technology Editor Gienna Shaw gives a personal account of her exasperating effort to get information about a simple cash discount for a procedure not covered by a health plan. Improving these sorts of time-consuming hassles is what patient-centered care should be all about. What are health providers waiting for? [Read More] Former Staff Nurse Returns as CEO Here's a heart-warming story about Amy Freeman, who went from nurse in a Washington, DC, hospital to the CEO suite, belying the challenges of the glass ceiling for providers in the trenches. A post-graduate fellowship in hospital management helped, but she still keeps the perspectives of direct patient care. [Read More] Hospital Satisfaction Drops While Overall Consumer Satisfaction Rises Why are patients not happy with their care? This survey suggests they're having bad experiences as inpatients. This story by my colleague Elyas Bakhtiari makes one wonder what hospital executives who want to improve their scores are actually doing to accomplish that goal. [Read More]

Leaders Forum
Plan, Align, Deploy and Execute: Bring Your Strategy to Life Employees must understand what the corporate strategy is, why it is important, what their role is within it and how to make decisions in everyday activities that breathe life into the strategy. In other words: they need to know how to execute the strategy. But explaining a strategy is not easy. [Read More]

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