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It seems that the legal ED horror stories never end. Just a few months after a Florida family sued over the death of a stroke victim who they say waited too long for a neurosurgeon, a Lake County, IL, coroner's office has ruled an ED death a homicide that was the "result of gross deviations from the standard of care that a reasonable person would have exercised in this situation."
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The continuing shortage of nurses and a growing shortage of physicians has created a twofold challenge for ED managers, say the experts. The first challenge: How to attract and retain talented staff. The second: Dealing with the sad fact that while staff salaries are surging, ED director and manager compensation lags behind.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the National Quality Forum have announced the winners of the Joint M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.
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For the first time in several years, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations has revised the look-alike/sound-alike drug list.
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There has been a significant amount of confusion among ED managers and others regarding a new national patient safety goal on patient suicides, according to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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Numerous emergency medicine experts have noted that a number of ED overcrowding and flow problems really are hospitalwide problems; few, however, have recommended running a hospital "like" an ED to solve those problems.
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The ED at Tahlequah (OK) City Hospital has been on diversion for just one hour in the past two years, says Brian Hail, RN, director of the department. According to Hail, his department has combined the good fortune of close proximity to another hospital with an array of targeted strategies to achieve such an impressive statistic.
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Hospitals are scrambling to develop a policy regarding organ donation after cardiac death (DCD) in order to be in compliance with a revised standard from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations that goes into effect Jan. 1, 2007.
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Do you have a process in place in your ED to identify patients at risk for suicide? If you don't have one in place by Jan. 1, 2007, you won't be in compliance with a new National Patient Safety Goal that requires hospitals to assess patients at risk for suicide.
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The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) has installed a new president and elected a new president-elect during the organization's annual meeting in New Orleans. Brian Keaton, MD, FACEP, of Akron, OH, assumed the presidency, and Linda L. Lawrence, MD, FACEP, of Fairfield, CA, has been elected president-elect.