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Texas-sized Mumps Outbreak Includes Nine HCWs
A large outbreak of mumps last year in Texas included nine healthcare workers, many of whom were apparently infected in the community.
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CMS Developing More Uniform Ligature Risk Guidance
Hospitals may soon have a more uniform set of guidance on protecting patients from ligature risk, with CMS announcing recently in a memo to state survey agency directors that it will incorporate findings from The Joint Commission Suicide Panel’s November 2017 special report on suicide prevention into its revised interpretive guidance. -
Better Management of Patients With Psychiatric Needs
With limited care options, patients with psychiatric emergencies often present to the nearest ED where they may wait for hours, if not days, for some sort of disposition.
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Disruptive Physicians, Staff Must Be Held Accountable
Accountability is key, even though there has been a movement away from holding individuals accountable in favor of redesigning systems to encourage the desired behavior. -
Research Shows Skepticism Over Hallway Care
The practice of treating ED patients in hallways has generated some reports in the medical literature expressing concerns for patient safety, though the incidents cited do not reflect a system in which patients are first stabilized and seen by a physician in an exam room. -
Focus on Patients’ Strengths as Injury Recovery and Prevention Strategy
Case managers working with workers’ compensation clients or managing a population of older adult patients should keep in mind that strength is important for positive health outcomes.
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Care Coordination Team Helps Medically Complex Pediatric Cases
A national nursing shortage has affected families of medically complex children in Delaware, leading a Medicaid managed care organization to focus on a care coordination team approach.
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ED Uses Two-stage Triage to Improve Flow
Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg, MS, developed a two-stage triage process that has helped improved throughput and many other aspects of care in the ED. -
Fix to ED Overcrowding Includes Hallway Treatment
A hospital in Mississippi has significantly improved its emergency department throughput and reduced the perennial problem of overcrowding in part by embracing a concept that most facilities try hard to avoid: treating patients in hallways and other non-standard areas. -
For Older Patients, Loneliness Might Be Biggest Social Determinant of Health
Loneliness and social exclusion can have a big impact on patients’ health and quality of life, and it is a problem that is compounded by deteriorating health as people grow older.