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When Providence Health Care system, a network providing health care at several sites in Vancouver, BC, was formed in 1997, the ethicist for the system saw an opportunity to build on that peer-adviser idea as a way to handle day-to-day ethical dilemmas. They created ethics mentors in every unit of every hospital in the system.
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One of the most difficult encounters for medical staff is simultaneously informing a family of the death of a loved one and bringing up the idea of donating organs and tissues. Staff awareness of resources to coordinate organ procurement and the staffs attitude toward organ procurement can make a big difference in an areas organ procurement rate.
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Dying patients discuss physician-assisted suicide; Public plea spurs new liver, plus some debate; Medical schools tighten conflicts-of-interest standards; Video: How to talk about medical errors.
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Want to cut your diversion hours down to zero? Thats exactly what Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach, CA, has done by instituting its emergency saturation triage, or Code EST. When Code EST was implemented in July 2000, diversion hours were about 130 monthly.
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Question: How do we avoid patient hoarding, in which nurses or physicians intentionally delay moving a patient out to delay the next patient and give themselves a breather?
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An enhanced care management program is the keystone of Bon Secours Health Systems systemwide performance improvement initiatives in connection with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services pay-for-performance demonstration project.