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A "discharge by appointment" initiative at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Towson, MD, has had some success, but is being challenged by physician delays and families who aren't arriving on time.
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A proactive approach to documentation improvement has paid off for Northwest Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle.
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In a little more than a year, if a patient develops an additional condition or infection after admission, your hospital may not get paid for treating the condition.
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The Joint Commission has created some Q&A clarification of its standards regarding tissue handling and transplantation in light of some highly publicized incidents of inappropriate practices.
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Despite existing national recommendations to the contrary, more than a third of hospitals reporting performance measurement data to The Joint Commission are not offering pneumococcal vaccine to their pneumonia patients, a recent report reveals.
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It's a common disconnect: An employee at home, healing from an injury, feels increasingly distant from work. As time passes, the chance of that employee returning to work drops.
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Lift teams aren't just for patient handling. As the UC Davis Health System in Sacramento discovered, the same concept can reduce injuries for other workers who must transfer heavy loads.
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Consider yourself forewarned: It's time to switch to blunt suture needles in the OR.
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In January, a health care worker who worked in the maternity ward, neonatal intensive care unit, newborn nursery and psychiatric ward of St. Barnabas Hospital in New York City was diagnosed with active tuberculosis.
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In the battle against nosocomial spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococ-cus aureus (MRSA), health care workers are more than just potential carriers.