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Editor's Picks
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12 Hospitals Fined For Patient Harm, Deaths in CA
The latest round of immediate jeopardy fines announced by the California Department of Public Health imposes $650,000 in fines on 12 hospitals for various medical errors. [Read More]
CMS Opens Medicare Transparency Proposal for Comment
Under a rule proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Medicare and private sector claims data could be used to produce public reports that evaluate physician performance. [Read More]
Night Surgery Not a Factor in Transplant Mortality, JHU Study Finds
Performing heart and lung transplants at night presents no additional survival risk and has no effect on patients' length of stay in the hospital, despite concerns about surgeon fatigue, a 10-year Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine study finds. [Read More]
On Board with Quality
As trustees become more involved in quality, it's up to leadership to help them focus on key issues such as financial penalties and new leadership standards. [Read More]
Rounds: Coordinating Systems of Care
Whether your hospital system is pursuing an accountable care organization or a broader program of clinical integration, the real work of creating high-value, cost-effective healthcare is in transforming the systems of care. But the solutions may not be as big and unmanageable as you think. Join us live or via live webcast from Gundersen Lutheran Health System with Gundersen?s clinical and executive leadership team and invited guest Fairview Health Services, two of the nation?s health system pioneers in high-quality, lower-cost healthcare.
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Breakthroughs: The Coordinated ED
Your emergency department is at the forefront of access and quality. Dynamic health systems are maximizing the efficiency, throughput, and patient experience of today?s ED in a shrinking reimbursement environment. In this free report, leading hospital systems?Scripps Health, Grady Health System, Mercy Medical Center, and Cambridge Health Alliance?share insights and lessons learned on maximizing the ED.
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NurseLeaders Forum
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Patient Classification Systems Address Nurse Staffing Balance
A patient classification system applies an evidence-based approach enabling hospitals to assign, match, and schedule nurses where they are needed the most, experts say. [Read More]
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Nursing Headlines
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Central FL hospitals among worst in state for infections
Orlando Sentinel, June 6, 2011
Prison terms sought for 4 over deadly medical tests
The Inquirer, June 6, 2011
'Major breakthrough' for deadly skin cancer treatment
Los Angeles Times, June 6, 2011
OR hospitals report 136 preventable errors in 2010
The Oregonian, June 3, 2011
Leaders: EMRs Aren't the Answer to Safety Issues
HealthLeaders Media, June 7, 2011
Medical Error Self-Reporting Stifled by Fears of Retaliation
HealthLeaders Media, June 6, 2011
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Webcasts/Rounds
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June 9: Rounds: Coordinating Systems of Care
June 16: Nurse Residency Programs Facilitate Graduate Nurse Transition into Professional Practice
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The Challenge of the ICU
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Health systems are in the midst of an ICU makeover
as healthcare leaders rethink
how they are providing care
in the costliest area of the hospital,
to improve outcomes and attain ROI.
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Audio Feature
Tony West: Waging War on Medicare, Medicaid Fraud
Tony West left a thriving private law practice to return to the Department of Justice as a political appointee when President Obama took office in 2009. Over the last year and half, the department has recovered more than $4 billion lost to healthcare fraud.[Sponsored by Emdeon] [Listen Now]
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