Nobody questions the seriousness of the nursing shortage, but so far no one has come up with a satisfactory solution. The American Academy of Nursing believes it is on the right track with a project called "Technology Targets," funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Presbyterian is laying the foundation for a program designed to facilitate organ donations in its emergency department.
Not too many years ago, the health care industry was applauding the first hospital recipient of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
Within months of each other, the states of Minnesota and Massachusetts established policies whereby facilities in those states will no longer bill for some or all of a list of 27 adverse events identified by the National Quality Forum as "never events."
While U.S. hospitals continue to demonstrate overall improvement in quality and safety, they still have a long way to go in several key areas, according to Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2007.
Richard Chole, MD, PhD, has developed a new system called CheckSite, designed to prevent wrong-site surgeries by reminding surgeons to take a time-out before the procedure.
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