Healthcare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement Archives – October 1, 2004
October 1, 2004
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Shifts go up for bid: Hospitals see boost in patient care, staff morale
A number of hospitals across the country have found they can drastically reduce the cost of staff salaries, while at the same time ensuring full nursing shifts, through shift bidding. This on-line vehicle also has been shown to boost staff morale while improving patient care and satisfaction. -
New York hospital markets successful job-bidding site
After saving a lot of administrative time and at least $1 million per year in expenses, St. Peters Hospital in Albany, NY, is marketing its job-bidding web site to other hospitals. -
Study: Top performers also can be top improvers
In a finding that many would consider counterintuitive, research by Evanston, IL-based Solucient demonstrates that continuous improvement over time is strongly associated with top performance. -
Study finds much higher rate of annual errors
According to a new study of 37 million patient records by HealthGrades, a Lakewood, CO-based health care quality company, an average of 195,000 people in the United States died due to potentially preventable, in-hospital medical errors in each of the years 2000, 2001, and 2002. -
‘Most wired’ hospitals widen gap over others
In much the same way as top performing hospitals continue to improve at a more rapid pace, so too are the most technologically adept facilities widening the gap between themselves and their competitors, according to the sixth annual Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study. -
NCQA’s Quality Plus will highlight web plans
The Washington, DC-based National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has released for public comment draft standards for Quality Plus, a new supplemental accreditation program it claims breaks new ground in content and intent. -
Tool locates alternative sites during bioterrorism
Early this summer, several factors brought renewed attention to the possibility of terrorist attacks and appropriate responses on the part of the health care profession. -
News Brief
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has created a Hospital Standards Advisory Group to provide feedback to the Joint Commission on the hospital fields experience with revised standards, rationales, elements of performance, and scoring methodologies.