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The Oakbrook Terrace-based Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations proposed infection control standards for 2005 include a more prescriptive approach that already is proving controversial.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has raised the ante again on infection control professionals, drafting prescriptive new standards for 2005 and putting the field at the top of the list for surprise inspections next year.
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If one case manager oversees the care of 20 patients in a day and another handles only 18 cases, the first case manager must be more productive, right?
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Hospitals experiencing the most problems with emergency department (ED) crowding are located in large metropolitan areas with high population growth and a large percentage of uninsured people, according to a recent report by the federal governments General Accounting Office (GAO).
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At Baptist Health Care Corp. in Pensacola, FL, the following question is posed to employees: If Im going to be successful in this culture, how do I need to act?
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The transition from hospital to home is a potentially vulnerable period, and the medical community should explore ways to reduce adverse events during this transition, say the authors of a new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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What is your No. 1 obstacle to reducing delays and improving patient flow? For many emergency department (ED) managers, the culprit increasingly is inpatients being held in the ED for hours or even days.
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Switching to an electronic discharge system was a culture shift, not only for Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) staff but for local providers as well.
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A hospital case management model may include utilization management, discharge planning, quality improvement, risk management, or clinical care management, all under one umbrella.
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Just as health care managers take a breath after rushing to make sure their hospitals are in compliance with the privacy standard, its time to kick into gear for the upcoming Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) transaction code-set deadline, which is Oct. 16, 2003.