-
News: In 2004, a 15-year-old boy underwent brain surgery to eliminate epileptic seizures initiating from the right side of his brain.
-
There has to be engagement by the medical staff and leadership to achieve the cultural changes and initiatives necessary to reduce cesarean sections, says Robin Kish, MBA, BSN, RN, CPHQ, vice president of Marsh Clinical Healthcare Consulting in Nashville, TN.
-
Janice Anderson, JD, shareholder with the law firm of Polsinelli Shughar in Chicago, provides this explanation of the situation prompting a recent Office of Inspector General (OIG) opinion regarding co-management:
-
A family from Hampton Township, a Pittsburgh suburb, announced recently that they intend to file a claim against the United States Department of Veterans Affairs as a result of a death from Legionnaires disease.
-
Do you have time to sort through the interpretive guidelines from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for the Conditions of Participation (CoPs) regarding anesthesia and sedation? The manual is hundreds of pages.
-
The Joint Commission (TJC) will hold hospitals accountable for their cesarean section rates beginning Jan. 1, 2014, and many providers will have to effect an entire culture change within the obstetrical unit by then. Documentation of any cesareans will become especially important.
-
Firm policies and procedures might be necessary to reduce cesarean rates, but resist the temptation to dictate every decision in the birthing process, says Samuel O. Southern, JD, an attorney with the law firm of Smith Moore Leatherwood in Raleigh, NC.
-
The Cooper Health System in Newark, NJ, has agreed with the U.S. Attorneys Office for the District of New Jersey and the state of New Jersey to pay $12.6 million to settle allegations that it violated the federal False Claims Act and New Jersey False Claims Act by making improper payments to physicians under so-called consulting and compensation agreements as it sought to build its cardiology program.
-
When doctors, nurses, and other hospital operating room staff follow a written safety checklist to respond when a patient experiences cardiac arrest, severe allergic reaction, bleeding followed by an irregular heartbeat, or other crisis during surgery, they are nearly 75% less likely to miss a critical clinical step, according to a new study funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
-
Of the hundreds, if not thousands, of patient safety strategies employed at hospitals across the country, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a report identifying the top 10 patient safety strategies that can be implemented immediately by healthcare providers.
