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News: A baby boy, born prematurely at 24 weeks, and weighing less than 2 pounds, was in the hospitals neonatal intensive care unit.
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Butler County Health Care Center (BCHCC) in David City, NE, is small 25 beds serving a rural community of 2,500 but the administrators think big. Using a program that enhances teamwork, the hospital has reduced medication errors that reach the patient by 30% and patient falls by 88%.
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The American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) guidelines on disclosure of serious adverse clinical events (SACEs) are an excellent compendium of all the issues that should be raised, says Ellen L. Janos, JD, an attorney with the law firm of Mintz Levin in Boston who often has helped hospitals make decisions regarding disclosure of adverse events.
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News: A 32-year-old pregnant woman presented to the hospital on Aug. 14, 2005, due to onset of labor. At 9:30 a.m., the fetal heart rate monitor showed a dangerous drop in the babys heart rate from 140 beats per minute to 60 beats per minute.
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The amount of reimbursement hospitals receive will be tied to physicians' ability to communicate with patients, manage their pain, and explain medications, as a result of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS)'s Hospital Value-based Purchasing Program, which will affect Medicare reimbursements as of October 2012, notes Marshall H. Chin, MD, MPH, Richard Parrillo Family Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago.
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Many pediatricians feel some distress over parents who refuse to vaccinate their children, says Douglas S. Diekema, MD, MPH, attending physician and director of education at the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle (WA) Children's Hospital and professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine, also in Seattle.
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Until recently, members of the patient access staff at St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center in Syracuse, NY, were assigned a generic "customer service representative" title that didn't reflect what they actually did.
