ED Management – January 1, 2012
January 1, 2012
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With Medicare revenues at stake, ED managers place new importance on elevating the patient experience
Hospitals across the country are scrambling to improve patient satisfaction so that they won't be dinged by a provision in the Accountable Care Act that will put a portion of Medicare dollars at risk, based on the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Services (HCAPS) surveys. -
Planning a brand new ED? Study up on acoustics, air quality, and patient wish-lists
New systems and processes can make a big difference in trimming wait times and changing customer perceptions in the ED. However, administrators in the enviable position of being able to design a brand new ED facility have an opportunity to create patient-friendly environments that also cater to their own characteristics in terms of flow processes and volume. -
Researchers find huge savings opportunity in oral form of IV drugs
Hospitals could potentially save millions of dollars by swapping commonly prescribed intravenous (IV) medications with their oral equivalents in patients who can safely take medications by mouth, according to a new study by researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD. The research, which was published in the journal Clinical Therapeutics, -
2011 Salary Survey Results: Salaries stabilize, although experts say demand for ED physicians is such that organizations are having to dig deep to lure in medic
Despite continuing turbulence in the health care industry, the past 12 months have been a period of relative stability as far as compensation is concerned among leaders in the ED, according to respondents to the 2011 ED Management Salary Survey. This follows a year in which salaries finally began to inch up after several years of stagnation.