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The struggle with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and confusion over how to adequately protect health care workers has led some employee health professionals to call for a new U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standard on biological hazards.
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If severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) returns this fall, is your hospital prepared? A lull in SARS activity is giving hospitals vital time to plan for a possible reemergence of the disease, which public health authorities say could occur this fall or winter.
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Montefiore Medical Center’s collaboration with five skilled nursing facilities on improving transitions has resulted in a drop in 30-day readmission rates to 15%.
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The Medicare Conditions of Participation require hospitals to give patients a choice of post-acute providers, but that doesn’t mean that case managers shouldn’t give them the information they need to make informed choices.
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Before you can give patients the information they need to make a good decision, you need to know something about the facilities on the list you give the patients.
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Many families spend more time and energy researching the best microwave oven to buy than they spend choosing a post-acute facility for their loved ones
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has made a one-time offer to hospitals to settle pending appeals of patient status claim denials for 68% of the net payable amount.
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Home care is an important intervention to consider for virtually every patient you discharge to home. By using the strategies discussed above, you can increase your percentage of patients going home with this important service. Remember to assess every patient on admission and to reassess every patient daily.
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There are two angles of attack to cutting catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) rates by 25%, and the harder approach involves changing provider behavior.
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