Hospital Peer Review – October 1, 2012

October 1, 2012

• Joint Commission's Wyatt says collaboration is the key

  Ronald Wyatt, MD, MHA, has spent 20 years working in just about every kind of healthcare setting imaginable primary care, emergency medicine in a VA hospital, nursing homes, as a sole practitioner and in a multispecialty setting.

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• Stroke reduction gets another weapon

  Within days after The Joint Commission announced that it would begin certifying applicants for comprehensive stroke centers, there were dozens of hospitals either waiting for site visits or preparing their applications in the hope of getting certified this year.

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• Waiting for the waiting to end

  Ask passersby in a hospital hallway what they think the biggest problem is in the emergency department, and one of the most common answers will likely be something about the influx of uninsured patients who use the ED as their primary care physician.

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• Seeing the forest and the trees

  If a health system wins a major national quality award, it must be doing something right, but also something different from other organizations, right? Ask one and likely at some point, a spokesperson will says something about focusing on the patient and striving to improve. But not everyone.

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• Where health care workers train matters

  Some scenarios that cause nightmares for nurses and physicians are blessedly rare.

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• Hospital Report blog

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