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As one recent case shows, it is difficult to prevent a nurse or other health care professional under investigation in one state from moving to another state and practicing.
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While there are no quick-and-easy solutions to ensuring effective infection control practices in the ambulatory surgery setting, there are steps managers can take, say infection control experts. Consider these suggestions:
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Facilities that offer bariatric surgery need to purchase equipment that can be used safely with those patients, says Michael Silverstein, MD, MPH, clinical professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis puts a special emphasis on educating its patients and staff about falls.
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A middle-aged male patient let's call him "Tom" showed up in the emergency department at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston about a year ago complaining of pains in his chest and legs.
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When patients are medically ready to leave the acute care hospital and have no coverage for post-acute care, it's a "no-brainer" for the hospital to pay to move the patient to a lower level of care, says Jay Cayner, director of social patient and family services at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
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As health insurance costs escalate and employers reduce coverage for employees, raise deductibles, or stop providing health insurance altogether, hospitals are providing care for an increasing number of patients who have no means to pay.
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Due to the increased demand for more in-depth information, there is a new resource for all your discharge planning needs.
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Amajor software upgrade has dramatically increased the ability of a New Jersey health system's behavioral health call center to serve as a "one-stop connection" for local emergency departments, psychiatric emergency screening services, and a stand-alone psychiatric hospital, says Dawn Fenske, director of Saint Barnabas Management Services in Toms River, NJ.
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When chronically ill patients who have no insurance coverage and no medical home come into the emergency department at Harbor-view Medical Center in Seattle, they are referred for follow-up to a nurse case manager who links the patients to a primary care provider and helps them learn to manage their disease.