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Work flow and business processes must drive change. Whether the process evaluation is driven internally or externally from consultants, it is the critical factor for long-term viability and success.
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Reimbursement for care of illegal immigrants could take a big hit as of Sept. 30, 2008 not great news as talk of health care costs, caring for the uninsured, and concern about insurance coverage become more rampant. Lobbyists are taking the issue on now, as hospital administrators, associations, and congressional leaders hit Washington, DC.
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"Spoil 'em rotten, pay 'em lots of money, let 'em do what they want, and then cut their throats if they don't give you what you need."
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"It's a constant struggle." Reducing door to doc times in the emergency department, that is. And though Iowa has traditionally ranked among the top three states for low ED wait times in Press Ganey reports, it still faces the never-ending challenge all EDs face: managing overcrowding, wait times, and patient satisfaction.
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Police say an employee of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta stole jewelry from two patients in cases that garnered substantial media attention in the community.
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Problems related to automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs) include both product design flaws and human errors, according to the 2007 ADC Survey from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) in Horsham, PA. There has been some improvement since the first ADC survey in 1999, but not enough.
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Automation and high-tech systems often are touted as the solution for medication errors, but the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) in Horsham, PA, is warning that you could be substituting one type of medication error for another when you use automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs).
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Reducing falls is a constant worry for risk managers, and sometimes it seems there are no new ideas. But many health care providers are finding the most success with an approach that includes a wide range of efforts, everything from special equipment and monitoring systems to making sure every employee is empowered to prevent falls.
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It's a constant worry for risk managers: Do you have enough physicians taking emergency department (ED) call duty? Will those on call actually respond when summoned? Are they taking ED calls from other hospitals at the same time?
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A man presented to the hospital complaining of a painful headache. A CT scan was ordered, but the CT scanner was not working properly. After an hour and a half of trying to repair the machine, staff made arrangements to use a backup CT scanner at an imaging center across the street, but that machine also was inoperable.