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Legal Review & Commentary: Fall from a nursing home window leads to a $1.39 million settlement in Maryland
Although a nursing home was aware of a male patients general disorientation and history of self-destructive behavior, the man opened a fifth-floor window and fell to the pavement. -
Legal Review & Commentary: A fall on an escalator leads to a judgment
An 83-year-old man went to a hospital to visit his wife. He slipped and fell on an escalator, injuring his head. -
Full April 2004 Issue in PDF
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Patient Safety Alert supplement
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care Supplement
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What quality managers are saying about JCAHO’s new survey process
Are you worried about your organizations ability to pass muster with the Shared Visions New Pathways survey process from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations? If so, its the moment of truth. -
How will Medicare data affect your next survey?
Since surveyors from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will come to your organization armed with detailed information on how you compare to other facilities, why not be proactive and do your own comparative analysis? -
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Are you aggressively addressing ED crowding? JCAHO says you must
Is your hospitals emergency department (ED) reporting record diversion hours, with patient volume and acuity higher than ever? Is the practice of holding admitted patients for long periods in the ED becoming the rule rather than the exception? -
Prevent infant abductions with FMEA processes
Do you think that a kidnapper could walk undetected through the halls of your hospital by using a fake ID badge and get away with a baby? Thats exactly what happened at one Salt Lake City facility, when a woman wearing hospital scrubs and a makeshift badge managed to abduct a 3-day-old infant.