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Given that patients are keenly interested in wait times, an increasing number of EDs across the country are taking advantage of new media to make this information more accessible to the public.
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Princeton Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham, AL, was recently chosen as one of two national HIMSS/ASQ Stories of Success for the 22% reduction in healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) resulting from their adoption of a radio frequency identification (RFID)-based hand-hygiene monitoring system.
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A study published recently in Health Affairs shows that hospitalization costs for patients with certain terminal or serious chronic illnesses are significantly lower when palliative care is provided.
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This March, the industry once again celebrated National Patient Safety Awareness Week an apropos title as quality professionals have certainly become increasingly aware of the importance of patient safety in recent years. But how well have we done?
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With all the talk about the shortage of primary care physicians, one would think there is an abundance of surgical specialty care providers ready and willing to answer the call.
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Hip fractures are among the most debilitating and expensive diagnoses to treat, but you can significantly improve outcomes and lower costs if you get hip-fracture patients into surgery quickly, explains Anthony Balsamo, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and head of the Geriatric Fracture Care Program (GFCP) at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
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While emergency department (ED) volume is always going to be somewhat unpredictable, ED operations at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, LA, used to hum along so optimally that there was no reason to rethink the way things were done.
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As reform helps more Americans gain access to health coverage, experts predict that the nation's EDs will be bulging at the seams.
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When Ocean Medical Center in Brick, NJ, and Meridian At Home care agency collaborated on a remote monitoring program for heart failure patients, the readmission rate for heart failure dropped from 14.93% before the program began to 4.84% in the first eight months of the pilot program.