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At Centre Community Surgical Center in State College, PA, physicians used to submit 10-15 requests for capital purchases each year.
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The 2004 Patient Safety Goals of the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations include all of the 2003 goals along with a new goal that focuses on the reduction of the risk of health care-acquired infections.
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The culture of safety that is promoted throughout the same-day surgery program as well as other departments at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, VA, is most evident in the monthly environment-of-care rounds.
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Now is a good time to do a reality check and refocus on the priorities in your surgical department.
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Reports of a surgeon inserting a screwdriver in a patients spine and another whose license was revoked after his state board for professional medical conduct said his continued practice would put patients in imminent danger have made outpatient surgery managers sit up and pay new attention to credentialing.
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When working with school-age children in a medical situation, it is important to tell the children what will happen providing concrete information, says April Elwood, CCLS, a child life specialist in the Cardiology Department at Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta.
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In compliance with the Houston-based M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Patient-Family Education Policy, the patient education office receives approval from the pharmacy division on each medication information sheet before it is added to the on-line patient education database and distributed to patients.
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When a Somali man found wandering the streets of Columbus, OH, was brought to Doctors Hospital, medical staff determined that he had quite a few medical problems. He had a stroke and new diabetes was identified. The man spoke very little English, so interpreters were used for the assessment of his condition.
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All written materials at Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta are in English and Spanish. That is because Hispanic families are about 10% of the patient population, says Kathy Ordelt, RN, patient & family education coordinator.