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The Joint Commission's proposed changes in the influenza vaccination standard for hospitals include the following:
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Hospitals aren't doing enough to protect their employees from infectious diseases, U.S. Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) administrator David Michaels, PhD, MD, told employee health professionals in a recent Webinar for members of the Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare (AOHP).
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health: Science blog (www.cdc.gov/niosh/blog/), Twitter (twitter.com/niosh/), Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/niosh/), YouTube (www.youtube.com/user/NIOSHSafetyVideos), Facebook and MySpace.
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Proposed changes in a Joint Commission infection control standard may accelerate the trend toward mandatory influenza vaccination policies.
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At the first sign of nosocomial spread of Acinetobacter baumannii, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian took a bold stance. Hospital employees and physicians would be held accountable for their hand hygiene.
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Non-physician staff. Anyone found to be (a) noncompliant with infection control measures (does not wear appropriate personal protective equipment, observe hand hygiene practices, or clean equipment such as stethoscopes as expected) after being asked to do so and pertaining to MDR Ab patients, or (b) uncooperative with monitoring personnel will be sent home immediately.
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Just as hospitals are set to comply with new restrictions on medical resident hours to reduce fatigue, a leading sleep expert is questioning the schedules that could lead to sleep deprivation among practicing surgeons.
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At Valley Health System in Ridgewood, NJ, two major goals are to obtain more authorizations and to do them in advance of the inpatient stay or procedure, says Maura Corvino, MSOL, RN, CEN, assistant vice president for emergency services and patient access.
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No one ever asked me for money before," was a common response when registrars started collecting ED copays at Evanston, IL-based NorthShore University HealthSystem, reports Cindy Geaslin, director of patient registration.
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Rewarding your overall patient access team for ED collections is a more practical approach than rewarding individual staff members, according to Cindy Geaslin, director of patient registration at NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, IL.
