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One area of this column I really enjoy is the questions I receive from readers. Some months, I receive 80-120 e-mails. This month, I went back over the past six months and pulled up some of my favorites.
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There are several steps you can take before a storm to ensure your building and its contents are protected, says William Phillips, PhD, president of Riteway Services, a Winter Park, FL-based business that handles facilities management for ambulatory surgery centers.
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Is your center prepared for a disaster that could cause you to close your doors, contact patients and staff, and later reopen safely? Information from centers that weathered the recent hurricanes in Florida can apply to any disaster.
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Awareness is caused when general anesthesia isnt sufficient to maintain unconsciousness and to prevent recall during surgery. Common causes include large anesthetic requirements, equipment misuse or failure, and smaller doses of anesthetic drugs, according to a recently published study.
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Ruth M. Maher, director of physical therapy at HyOx Medical Treatment Center in Marietta, GA, suggests training employees to immediately note the following information after a fall.
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It only took one patients complaint about the inpatient admissions process for a rehab hospital to make changes that have cut the admissions process by two hours per patient and resulted in a net savings.
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While all rehab facilities regularly check process data, the odds are that very few are using the information as effectively as they could with regard to performance improvements.
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Experts say these are the top 10 strategies for reducing slips, trips, falls, and the associated liability.
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Slips, trips, and falls happen in any health care setting, and they can be enormously expensive. The good news is you can sharply reduce those accidents by aggressively employing some rather simple strategies.
