Many hospitals across the nation are already working with health IT, including electronic health records (EHR) and bar code scanning-especially as CMS' Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs (commonly referred to as "meaningful use") promise to provide incentive payments to eligible...
Many hospitals struggle with readmissions, and sometimes a readmission might be out of the control of the hospital. Still, when Jan Williams, RN, BSN, program director for the Health Enhancement Program (HEP) at Mary Lanning Memorial Healthcare (MLMH) in Hastings, Neb., and the...
The best way to mass vaccinate the general public during flu season is to make flu shots as accessible as possible, and access doesn't get any easier then rolling down your window and rolling up your sleeve.
Patient safety has long stood on a variety of tenets, some of which have formed the process and basis for how professionals (both leaders and clinicians) conduct improvement work. Some of these are well-known and accepted: Patient safety is a right. A high level of patient safety performance...
In honor of the National Patient Safety Foundation's Patient Safety Awareness Week, Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, CT, hosted a public panel to discuss patient safety with the community, offering a chance for attendees to get perspectives from all sides...
In 2006, Southampton (NY) Hospital's Department of Nursing conducted a needs assessment focusing on the quality of patient outcomes, staff recruitment and retention, and patient safety. Part of the assessment included distributing the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Hospital...
Recognizing that the healthcare sector produces a vast amount of waste and hazards to the environment, more healthcare facilities are doing their part in sustainability and greening efforts.
There are always times to come back to center-to return to why we work so hard to improve processes, performance, and measures like overall hospital ratings. In the sea of scores, metrics, and meetings we often drown in, we forget to come up for air and see that relationship...
