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Houston-based Memorial Hermann Healthcare System will be honored this month at a gala event in Washington, DC, as the winner of the National Quality Forum's (NQF) 2009 National Quality Healthcare Award. Michael Shabot, MD, system chief medical officer, explains why the health system was chosen and how it met the five criteria NQF established for the award:
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Less than three months after releasing an addendum to its 2009 accreditation standards, The Joint Commission is telling hospitals to throw it out and refer instead to a newly revised edition.
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Is routine preoperative testing an outdated concept? Despite the fact that many outpatient surgery programs continue to perform the testing, even for simple eye operations, a recent study raises the question about whether such testing has an impact on clinical outcomes.
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Getting more involved in workers' comp is your "chance to show cost savings to upper management," says Moniaree Parker Jones, RN, MSN, COHN-S, CCM, formerly a senior occupational health nurse in the Alabama/Mississippi regional office of State Farm Insurance Co.
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"People think of insurance as somebody gets hurt, they submit a claim, they get paid, and that's the end of it, but there are all different types of programs," says Christine R. Zichello, RN, COHN-S, CSHM, ARM, FAAOHN, senior risk control specialist at PMA Insurance Group's Mount Laurel, NJ, branch office.
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A Medicare demonstration project in Florida that includes both telephonic case management and face-to-face interventions has improved clinical outcomes for beneficiaries who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid and have congestive heart failure or any combination of comorbidities that include congestive heart failure, diabetes, and coronary artery disease.
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As part of its efforts to promote healthy living and save health care dollars in the long run, Regence BlueCross BlueShield is rewarding members for adapting healthy lifestyles.
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Here are definitions of three types of workers' compensation insurance policies, according to Christine R. Zichello, RN, COHN-S, CSHM, ARM, FAAOHN, senior risk control specialist at PMA Insurance Group's Mount Laurel, NJ, branch office:
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A newly hired occupational health nurse knew intuitively what she was saving her company, but lacked quantifiable numbers. To come up with hard data to show her worth, the nurse turned to her workers' compensation carrier.
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George is a 67-year-old man with diabetes, cardiac problems, and asthma who takes more than 10 medications. He is insulin- and oxygen-dependent, lives alone, and is illiterate.
