Articles Tagged With: COVID-19
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Hospital-at-Home Primary Care and Case Management Team Helps with Challenging Cases
As any case manager knows, preventing readmissions and ED visits by the most at-risk patients is an enormous challenge. It requires addressing all the social determinants of health needs they may have, as well as finding creative and affordable solutions.
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Hospital-at-Home Programs Can Work — Even When the Home Is a Car
A case management-style hospital-at-home program produced $6 million in savings and cut hospitalizations by 53% in one year.
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APIC, SHEA Say Mandate COVID Shots for HCWs
Although the federal requirement that healthcare workers be vaccinated against COVID-19 has been lifted, a statement signed by the nation’s leading infection control groups and various other associations emphasizes the importance of mandatory vaccination by individual hospitals.
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How Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Permanent Contraception Procedures?
A national review of inpatient permanent contraception procedures between Jan. 1, 2019, and Dec. 31, 2020, demonstrated that the rate of procedures decreased in 2020 compared with 2019, with the steepest monthly decline (14.5%) being between February and April 2020, the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The End of the Tether: Healthcare Workers in Mental Health Turmoil
Some healthcare workers are hanging by a thread as thin as a suture. Others have fallen — due to COVID-19, workplace violence, or by their own hand. Many have fled healthcare as if it were a burning building. Perhaps, more appropriately, a burned-out building. Too many healthcare workers today are described as anything but well. Mentally, they are at the end of the tether: burned out, morally injured, compassion fatigued, with some depressed to the point of suicidal ideation.
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Respiratory Triple Play: Vaccination Is the Key
As a trifecta of viruses converge this fall and winter, the United States has an unprecedented infection control counterpunch: vaccines for the 2023-2024 flu season, new shots for respiratory syncytial virus, and the latest formula to protect against COVID-19.
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Standardized Care Protocols at SNFs Improve Hospital Readmission Rates
New research shows how standardized care protocols can improve care and reduce readmission rates for patients with chronic conditions in skilled nursing facilities.
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Nurses Develop Successful Handoff Tool for Patient Safety Attendants
Nurse residents and co-investigators created and successfully tested a simple communication tool, called Patient Safety Attendant Handoff Form, that helps improve safety and care quality for patients with personal safety attendants.
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With No Annual HCW Screening, Treatment of Latent TB Imperative
The CDC dropped its labor-intensive recommendation for annual routine screening of healthcare workers for tuberculosis (TB) in 2019. However, there are multiple TB issues with which occupational health departments must contend. These include post-hire pre-placement testing, treating latent TB that could activate later in life, identifying and following up on worker exposures, and the threat of multidrug-resistant strains.
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Occupational Health: Outbreak Investigation 101
In an outbreak situation that affects healthcare workers and patients, occupational health can strike a critical partnership with the infection control department to rapidly resolve the situation.