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Complying with The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) can be a challenge, and managers are developing a variety of approaches to ensure compliance.
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Is it the end of an era for The Joint Commission? Following on the heels of Congress' move to require the organization to reapply for deeming authority for the first time, DNV Healthcare has been granted deeming authority from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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(Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series on saving money. Last month, we covered how to save on equipment and gave information on how adding surgeons results in cost savings. This month, we cover how to save money on supplies and how your staff can help save money.)
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If you live in the northern states, you need to deal with blizzards, ice, and snow. The southern states generally must address hurricanes, and southern and midwestern states have to be ready for tornadoes. The Gulf states have the hurricanes. California has its fires, floods, earthquakes, landslides, and general mayhem.
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Would you like to find out why your surgeons are sending cases to other facilities? Increase your caseload? How would you like to achieve both of those goals with one simple form?
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No more needlesticks. That sounds like a laudable goal that could prevent health care workers from being exposed to deadly diseases. But, in tandem, outpatient surgery managers need to maintain another important message that could actually cause their numbers to rise: Report all needlesticks.
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The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) has announced its 2009 standards, including a new chapter on lithotripsy services, as well as medical home and behavioral health services.
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While a rapid response is important in trying to save lives and prevent in-hospital deaths from cardiac arrest, the vehicle for that response is now called into question.
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The intervention is membership in a group collaborative. The five measures relate to antimicrobial prophylaxis in surgical patients. The endpoint: Did being part of the collaborative help facilities comply with the measures? The conclusion: No.
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With high scores on Hospital Compare to back her up, Indun Whetsell, RN, CPHQ, director of quality management at The Regional Medical Center (TRMC) in Orangeburg, SC, says her surgical antibiotic prophylaxis initiatives have paid off in a big way.
