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More than 1,000 alarms per patient per stay. Thats what one unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore estimated nurses heard.
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For the last three years, McKay-Dee Hospital a 325-licensed-bed teaching hospital in Ogden, UT has made the cut for Modern Healthcares 100 Top Hospitals.
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The Joint Commissions Center for Transforming Healthcare has started working with 20 hospitals in South Carolina to improve their safety by examining systems, processes, and structures in an effort to minimize variability in practices.
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Hospitals that have physician offices connected to and affiliated with them now have another option for getting certified for a Primary Care Medical Home.
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Most hospitals probably have a Facebook page and Twitter feed by now. But does how many people like you or follow you matter?
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It is this dirty little secret: Everyone thinks health care providers of all people wash their hands all the time. But it is not so. Indeed, if you are counting washing as washing correctly when you should for the right length of time, then the numbers shrink to sometimes embarrassing levels.
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Every hospital quality improvement manager hears complaints about all the data that has to be collected, how much of it is redundant, the different ways you have to report it, and the increasing number of organizations that want it. Why cant they all get together and figure out a way to work together? they ask.
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Just four months after deciding to apply, South Nassau Communities Hospital underwent and passed a survey by The Joint Commission for certification in wound care, making it the first hospital in New York to achieve that status, and just the 20th in the country.
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The Joint Commission has hired a former emergency physician to be the medical director for its division of Healthcare Quality Evaluation.
