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More than 30% of Pennsylvania healthcare facilities have successfully implemented 21 potential recommendations for preventing wrong-site surgery, according to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority (PPSA). Such efforts go a low way toward avoiding potentially costly lawsuits.
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Are you performing unnecessary preoperative tests? If so, you're wasting expensive staff time required to conduct them and analyze them, as well as supplies needed to conduct them. In addition, you're experiencing potentially unnecessary surgical delays due to false positives.
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A new tool that calculates the financial and environmental impact of reprocessing is available from Phoenix, AZ-based Ascent, a division of Stryker Corp.
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Would you like to realize dramatic cost savings, including cutting your interest rates in half? Meet with your bank once a year, suggests Joan Shearer, CASC, administrator of Lawrence (KS) Surgery Center.
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Two simple cost-effective methods communications team training and a surgical checklist have been shown in a study to reduce postoperative complications, which are the most expensive medical errors, averaging $14,500 per case.
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At some point, after reducing cost so much, we are going to realize that the best option is to not do surgery at all. Think of the savings!
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A new toolkit for healthcare professionals was created to enhance safety for patients who have obstructive sleep apnea and are undergoing outpatient surgery.
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What can you, as a manager, do to help ensure members of your staff are complying with sharps safety regulations?
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When you walk on an airplane, you expect layers of precautions to prevent any error that could lead to failure and injury. You demand the same or even greater care from the nearby nuclear power plant. And now, you can expect that serious attention to safety from a growing number of healthcare providers.
