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Failing to keep your exposure control plan up to date could lead to a citation from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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The basic premise of worker safety is to provide layers of protection. If each layer is sufficiently flawed, the protection is compromised. That is the lesson of a recent Health Hazard Evaluation in an Arizona hospital, where 18 employees had a TB skin test conversion in 2011 and one employee developed active tuberculosis.
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The pilot testing version of the CMS survey includes the following elements on hospital employee health:
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In the last two issues, we discussed some of the topics related to health care reform that are of greatest interest to case management professionals. This month's Case Management Insider continues this discussion with a look at patient satisfaction, mortality measures, and the new efficiency of care measure.
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Nine hospitals in southern Texas have joined with the area's Agency on the Aging and formed the Rio Grande Valley Readmission Coalition to follow at-risk patients after they are discharged from the hospital in an effort to prevent readmissions.
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By improving processes within the hospital and collaborating with post-acute providers in the community, Charles Cole Memorial Hospital in Coudersport, PA, decreased its 30-day readmission rate for all patients by 15.9% in a one-year period.
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As part of the workup for a young woman with abdominal pain, the emergency physician (EP) ordered radiographic studies of the patients abdomen, and general surgery and OB/GYN consults. The on-call radiologist first read the studies as unremarkable.
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A young man presented to an emergency department (ED) and reported hallucinations after taking over-the-counter herbal stimulants and diphenhydramine. The ED diagnosis was acute psychosis resolved.