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You know that you are going to get dinged for any unplanned readmissions related to a patients original hospitalization. You have probably felt the heat about that for some time and have worked on how to make sure no one bounces back unless its part of the plan.
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One in five. That was the incidence and prevalence of pressure ulcers in 2007 at Onslow Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, NC.
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On Jan. 1, 2014, The Joint Commission will start holding accredited hospitals responsible for two more core measure sets.
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Many in healthcare will tell you outright that drug diversion isnt a big problem in their organization, says Commander John Burke of the Warren County Drug Task Force in Lebanon, OH. That is people putting their heads in the sand, he says.
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No one likes to think that their care differs based on some external element of the patient the way they look or talk, their perceived class. But study after study shows that we arent as blind to difference as wed like to think.
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Two years ago, when Hospital Peer Review did its salary survey, we were in the midst of the deepest recession that this country had known since the Great Depression.
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State insurance exchanges and the federal marketplace got off to a rough start at the beginning of October.
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Clostridium difficile (C. diff) should sound a lot scarier for what it is: the second most common nosocomial infection in hospitals, with an average cost of $5,000 for each patient episode and an extra week in the hospital.
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Have you read the final rule for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2014 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) yet?
