To improve medical outcomes in intensive care units, some hospitals are attempting to make units more accessible for patients’ family and...Read More »
Join Parkland Health and Hospital System expert speakers Kimberly Roaten, PhD, CRC, and Celeste Johnson, DNP, APRN, PMH CNS, as they explain how Parkland became the first in the nation to establish a universal suicide screening program in all its departments....
In a new blog post, CMS announced that it was extending its electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) submissions to March 13, 2017 at 11:59 p.m...Read More »
Editor’s note: CMS, Joint Commission, hospital organizations, and private vendors each have their own way of calculating a hospital’s ranking...Read More »
There’s been a flood of different measures and metrics in recent years. CMS, Joint Commission, hospital organizations, and vendors each have their...Read More »
For many surgeons and physicians, the hardest thing they will have to do in their medical career is talk to a patient about a medical error....Read More »
On one hand, physicians are experts that people seek out because of their knowledge of human health. On the other, physicians are still their...Read More »