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While your facility, no doubt, has a Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-compliance policy, which, among other things, covers electronic communications, it might be a good idea to craft one that is specific to your ED, experts say.
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No one is claiming its a cure-all for emergency department (ED) overcrowding, but a number of facilities have turned to postponing elective surgeries that require admissions as an important part of a multifaceted plan to ease the burden on their harried ED staff. And when they do, many give the ED manager a key role in the decision-making process.
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When Ocala (FL) Regional Medical Center announced a new screening initiative that would involve counseling nonurgent patients to seek alternative care, a funny thing happened: Local competitors Monroe Regional and Timber Ridge became involved when they heard about our initiative, because they felt they would be inundated by patients who were not having their treatment here, says Susan Atkin, RN, emergency department (ED) director.
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Hospital case management departments should take the lead in making sure patients are placed in the right status by establishing a front-end process to make sure that problems in observation status vs. admission status dont occur.
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In-room registration reduces patients total length of stay significantly, says this study from the Childrens Hospital and Health System in Milwaukee.
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Two of your surgeons want you to purchase an expensive piece of technology, but youre wary because youre unsure how much they will use it. What should you do?
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When reading a New England Journal of Medicine article1 describing intensive monitoring of blood glucose levels for surgical intensive care unit (ICU) patients on ventilators, which resulted in decreased mortality rates, James Krinsley, MD, director of critical care at Stamford (CT) Hospital, had a revelation.