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Care Coordination Training Works Well for VA Hospitals
One of the challenges facing health systems as patients are moved from the hospital to another healthcare facility is how to make these transitions as safe as possible — especially in rural and underserved areas. A Veterans Affairs hospital has found a possible solution through its Transitions Nurse Training Program.
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Communication in Care Transition Process Needs Improvement
The care transition process is challenging, especially for patients with multiple complex conditions. To provide the best care to high-risk patients, case managers, community providers, and clinicians need to optimize communication. Case managers can improve the process through quality improvement efforts that focus on overcoming dialogue challenges and identifying providers’ communication preferences.
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How Case Managers Can Help Patients Reduce Heat Risk
Extreme heat events can become cluster death events. Case managers and health systems can help their patients — especially older patients with heart and/or lung disease — to prevent heat illness.
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Climate Change Could Be Newest Social Determinant of Health
Extreme heat events cause tens of thousands of hospitalizations and ED visits each year. Heat is particularly dangerous for older adults and patients with heart and lung illnesses. Case managers and hospitals can help prevent heat exhaustion by educating at-risk clients about how to stay cool and recognize symptoms.
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SHEA 2023: Pandemic Past Must Inform the Future
Part post-mortem, part vision quest, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2023 meeting largely was a look at the pandemic past and what beasts are yet to come.
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SHEA 2023: C. auris Spreads Across Healthcare Continuum
The first cluster of pediatric patients with Candida auris and the ability of the emerging fungal pathogen to spread rapidly across the healthcare continuum were revealed in outbreak reports at the recent conference of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
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EPA Ethylene Oxide Reg Would Affect Hospitals
Citing the risk of cancer to healthcare workers, employees of commercial sterilizers, and the neighborhoods that surround the facilities, the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed regulations to reduce use and prevent exposures to ethylene oxide gas sterilant.
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Project Firstline: Creating a Culture of Shared Responsibility
About three years into an experiment to teach infection control basics to healthcare workers in short snippets directly online, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is doubling down on Project Firstline as key preparation for the next pandemic.
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CDC Director Steps Down
After conceding that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made mistakes and errors in the pandemic response — then launched an ambitious effort to reinvent the agency — Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, has announced she will resign at the end of June 2023.
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Email Retention Requirements for HIPAA Often Misunderstood
HIPAA requires that certain emails and other electronic communications be retained for a set period, but covered entities often misunderstand exactly what must be saved and for how long. The Security Rule requires healthcare organizations and health plans to retain electronic communications containing HIPAA policies and procedures for at least six years.