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About 73% of employers conduct criminal background checks on all job candidates, according to a 2010 survey by the Society for Human Resource Management, and another 19% of employers do so only for selected job candidates. They can be particularly important in healthcare when a job applicant must be trusted with vulnerable patients and data, but experts caution that background checks have limitations.
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Cyber attacks. Data thefts. System breaches. They're all on the rise, and healthcare is the no. 1 field at risk, according to a just-released Internet Security Threat Report 2011 Trends from Symantec Corp.1 Consider these recent examples from the outpatient surgery field:
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According to The Joint Commission, retained surgical items resulting in death or permanent loss of function were the most frequently reported sentinel event in 2010 and 2011.
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If your facility is open as you read this, congratulations! There are a number of freestanding facilities that didn't make it through the past "dark years."
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Two recent awards obtained by Siouxland Surgery Center in Dakota Dunes, SD, show this specialty hospital is on the right track with patient satisfaction.
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Finding a new way to educate employees about fall prevention is a big challenge because, though the topic is important, it can be hard to keep people's attention.
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While it is difficult to surprise me anymore, I discovered that in 2011 we opened more not-for-profit, freestanding, off-site hospital surgery centers then we did actual for-profit surgery centers. In looking at our current workload and "pipeline" projects, it looks like the trend is going to extend into 2012.