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Healthcare workers urged to be vaccinated against seasonal flu
After last year’s poor flu vaccine efficacy, public health officials think they have a much better match for the 2015-2016 season and are urging healthcare workers to be immunized to protect themselves and patients.
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‘Immediate jeopardy’ can happen to any hospital
"Immediate jeopardy” are words you never want to see on a CMS survey report for your facility because it means you are on the brink of losing your accreditation for Medicare in a very short time, and that is only the worst of the ramifications.
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CMs can help clients and staff with building teamwork skills
Patient care can be helped or hindered by what is going on in the client’s home and community. How much family support does a patient have? Do they receive support from friends, community clubs, faith-based organizations, and neighbors?
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Experts: CMs need to adopt a life-long learner attitude
Today’s case manager needs to be a life-long learner, adopting interactive communication skills, improving organizational skills, and maintaining professionalism, according to a case management expert.
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What's Holding Case Managers Back?
Reimbursement and regulatory barriers are slowing down the transformative change that technology makes possible.
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Sentinel Event Alert focuses on patient falls
Preventing patient falls and fall-related injuries is the focus of the new Sentinel Event Alert: Issue 55 released recently by The Joint Commission. The new alert examines the contributing factors to patient falls and includes suggested solutions to be implemented by healthcare organizations to help reduce patient falls and falls with injury.
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Hospital accused of firing employee questioning credentialing
A former employee of San Juan Regional Medical Center in New Mexico is suing the hospital, claiming she was fired for speaking out against the credentialing of unqualified radiologists.
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Sentinel event report to The Joint Commission now privileged in Pennsylvania
Sentinel event reports to The Joint Commission are not privileged in Pennsylvania, according to a recent decision by the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas.
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NLRB says nurses entitled to union representation at peer review
A recent decision by the National Labor Relations Board indicates that nurses must be allowed union representation during peer review.
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IOM says diagnosis errors underappreciated
This is an excerpt from the Institute of Medicine’s Report of the Committee on Diagnostic Error in Health Care.