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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued five general duty clause citations against hospitals in Fiscal Year 2013, based on a provision of the Occupational Safety and Health Act that requires employers to provide a workplace free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm.
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Patients at Danville, PA-based Geisinger Health System can create their own estimates online via a self-serve portal, MyEstimate.
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A growing number of healthcare workers are coming into their professions with childhood vaccination against the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Yet 5% to 10% of them might unknowingly be non-responders, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Its no longer enough for case managers to create a discharge plan and forget about the patient as soon as he or she is out the door, advises Jackie Birmingham, RN, BSN, MS, CMAC, vice president emerita of clinical leadership for Curaspan Health Group, a Newton, MA-based transition management software company.
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When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) changed the way in which it would reimburse hospitals based on the number of Medicare 30-day readmissions they had, hospitals began a long journey of discovery.
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By analyzing heart failure readmissions and collaborating with post-acute providers and community organizations, Essentia Health-St. Josephs Medical Center in Brainerd, MN, cut its readmission rate from 18% to a low of 6%.
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Using a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Innovation grant, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston launched a program to prevent readmissions.