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No one would argue that ventilators are lifesaving tools for many critically ill patients. But like so much in healthcare, too much of a good thing can be bad.
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What do you do when something you desperately want to fix just won't be fixed?
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When you talk to officials at The Joint Commission (TJC) about the annual sentinel event reports released in July, they are quick to tell you that the data represent just a portion of sentinel events in the country, because reporting them to the organization is voluntary.
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Maybe in today's jaded world, $75,000 doesn't seem like a lot of money to win. But along with that little financial windfall won by University Hospital Case Medical Center in Cleveland in July, came a prestigious title: Winner of the American Hospital Association McKesson Quest for Quality award.
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Butler County Health Care Center (BCHCC) in David City, NE, is small it has 25 beds serving a rural community of 2,500 but the administrators think big.
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The question of gown use when entering patient isolation rooms is a recurrent one, so it is worth noting that this is the current thinking of The Joint Commission on the subject:
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April and May were busy months for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which issued several proposed and final rules that will affect hospitals and other healthcare organizations for years to come.
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Although many hospitals worked hard to be ready for the implementation of ICD-10 coding to replace the decades-old ICD-9, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has delayed final implementation until Oct. 1, 2013.
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Sometimes, you need someone to lead a project. Sometimes, it's easy. But what about those times when you just can't find someone to take the helm? Helen Macfie, Pharm.D., senior vice president of performance improvement at the six-hospital MemorialCare Health System in Southern California thinks she's got it figured out. She has a top 10 list that might help others, too.