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Are evidence-based guidelines being followed consistently in your organization? If not, you need to get with the guidelines, says Cindy Waller, RN, MSN, vice president of quality improvement initiatives for the southeast affiliate of the Dallas-based American Heart Association (AHA).
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Is your hospital prepared for a pandemic or any clinical crisis circumstance that results in an unusually high rate of admissions?
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Are patients on gurneys in hallways a typical sight in your organizations emergency department (ED)? The growing problem of ED overcrowding is potentially dangerous to patients, resulting in
the new leadership standard on managing patient flow from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
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Case managers with the Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA), a nonprofit medical indemnity association, follow a practice model that differs significantly from that used at most other insurance companies, says Melissa Bojorquez, ACBSW, MBA, CCM, supervisor for the HMSA case management program.
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More than 4,000 hospitals currently share data through the initiative, which assesses how often caregivers follow 10 clinical care steps proven to improve outcomes in heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia patients.
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Would you like your organizations care of patients with chest pain to be something to brag about? Consider obtaining accreditation from the Columbus, OH-based Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC).
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A recent Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) survey at Medical City Dallas Hospital was extremely educational, with surveyors taking extra time to educate staff, reports Rosemary Rouse, RN, BSN, the organizations survey coordinator.
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Should a terminally ill 10-year-old have a say in determining her end-of-life care? Can a teenager make an informed consent to treatment? Questions of this type will be the mainstay of the Center for Pediatric Bioethics, the nation first center for bioethics solely dedicated to pediatrics, which will be located at Childrens Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle.
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In a move the transplant medicine community anticipated for several months, the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the entity designated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to coordinate organ transplants and donations in the United States, has adopted a position statement opposing private efforts to solicit deceased organ donors for transplant candidates when no personal bond exists between the patient and donor or donor family.