-
More than 30% of Pennsylvania healthcare facilities have successfully implemented 21 potential recommendations for preventing wrong-site surgery, according to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority (PPSA).
-
Consider the following points when responding to a crisis, according to Adele Cehrs, president of Epic PR Group, a public relations firm in Alexandria, VA, that assists corporations with crisis communication:
-
Do more, but dont expect more resources. Moneys tight.
-
In a futuristic paradigm, health care is not sick care. It is a continuum that provides acute care, rehabilitation and wellness, and one that encompasses both hospital patients and employees.
-
Health care workers arent actually very healthy. They have higher rates of heart disease and asthma than workers in all other sectors, and they are the most likely to have functional limitations or to ever have had cancer, according to an analysis of 1997-2007 data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS).
-
About one-third of American adults are obese. If trends continue on their current trajectory, by 2030, about half of all American adults will be obese.
-
Safe patient handling should be standard practice, not best practice. That is the message behind new, draft standards issued by the American Nurses Association (ANA).
-
The silos that separate patient safety and worker safety are coming down. Preventing medical errors and protecting health care workers are part of the same continuum, The Joint Commission accrediting body asserts in a new monograph.
-
Bring science back into the discussion of influenza vaccination.
-
Expect a re-energized OSHA with the reelection of President Barack Obama: New recordkeeping rules, a proposed Injury and Illness Prevention Program (I2P2) standard, and possibly an infectious diseases standard.