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Case managers have the opportunity to provide valuable assistance to their patients who are frequently readmitted to the hospital with advanced chronic illnesses or who are approaching end of life, says Jennie Roberts, RN, CCM, MBA, chief nursing officer for Evercare Hospice and Palliative Care, based in Minneapolis, which provides hospice and palliative care services throughout the country.
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Presbyterian Healthcare Services' Hospital at Home program, which provides acute care services in the homes of patients who might otherwise be hospitalized, has improved patient satisfaction and cut the cost of hospital care by about 30% for the Albuquerque, NM-based integrated healthcare delivery system.
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CLEVELAND Every year the Cleveland (OH) Clinic releases the Top 10 list of medical innovations for the coming year.
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With outpatient surgery becoming increasingly complex, in terms of technology and patients, there is a growing trend toward requiring nurses to have their bachelor's of science in nursing (BSN) degree.
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Like many outpatient surgery facilities, you face drug shortages. You might have felt relief that youve been able to rely on compounding pharmacies to obtain the drugs you need in the single-use dosage you need until you learned about a nationwide meningitis outbreak from contaminated steroid medications originating at a Massachusetts compounding facility.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the final rule for ambulatory surgery center (ASC) and hospital outpatient department (HOPD) payments in 2013.
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Ninety percent of informed consent disputes involve disagreements about who said what and when, according to an analysis of 481 malpractice claims and patient complaints from Australia involving allegations of deficiencies in the process of obtaining informed consent.
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With the elections over, the majority of the country has spoken. Like it or not, healthcare is going to irrevocably change in the United States. There are challenges to say the least, but there are also lots of opportunities for the U.S. healthcare industry as we start down this path.
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In what is getting to be a familiar, tragic refrain, the improper use of single-dose vials (SDVs) has resulted in pain clinic patients in Arizona and Delaware acquiring serious bacterial infections that were "completely preventable," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports.
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Whether it's the smartphones, tablet computers, or e-readers, new technology is all the rage these days. At the Shriners Hospitals for Children in Erie, PA, this mobile technology is being used to help patients.
