Articles Tagged With: hospitals
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High Reliability Organizations Aim High, Strive for Zero
Hospitals and health systems are always striving to improve quality and become more reliable providers of healthcare, but some are setting even higher goals by striving to become high reliability organizations. With the HRO concept, these hospitals are aiming not to just improve and reduce errors, but to completely eliminate them.
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Discharge planning proposed rule focuses on patient preferences
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed to revise the discharge planning requirements that hospitals, including long-term care hospitals and inpatient rehabilitation facilities, critical access hospitals, and home health agencies, must meet in order to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
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Hospitals to settle kyphoplasty allegations
Thirty-two hospitals will pay the United States more than $28 million to settle allegations that the facilities submitted false claims to Medicare for minimally-invasive kyphoplasty procedures.
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VA hospital system may mandate staff flu shots
With a new study finding that virtually none of the nation’s 150 Veterans Health Administration hospitals have mandatory flu shot policies for healthcare workers — leaving vaccination rates languishing in the 55% range — the VA system is considering a vaccine mandate to protect patients and coworkers, Hospital Employee Health has learned.
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Hospital safety scores show some improvements
The Hospital Safety Scores released recently by The Leapfrog Group show key shifts among many hospitals on the letter grades rating them on errors, injuries, accidents, and infections.
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HHS report: Hospital-acquired conditions decreasing
A recent report from the Department of Health and Human Services indicates that an estimated 87,000 fewer patients died in hospitals and nearly $20 billion in healthcare costs were saved as a result of a reduction in hospital-acquired conditions from 2010 to 2014.
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DOJ recovers $1.9 billion from healthcare FCA cases
The Department of Justice obtained more than $3.5 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, and $1.9 billion came from companies and individuals in the healthcare industry.
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Moving from data to action – Finding meaning in numbers
As healthcare systems shift from the fee-for-service model to managing health across a population of patients, hospital quality managers’ work using quality indicators and other data is moving to front and center of the evolution.
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Patients having trouble with registration? They’re ‘kicked out’ of kiosk for these reasons
If patients are having any type of trouble with kiosk registration at Naperville, IL-based Edward–Elmhurst Health, the kiosk instructs them to go to a registration person instead, without the patient having to ask for help.
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Justifying short inpatient stays just got easier — or did it?
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has modified the controversial two-midnight rule to allow shorter stays to be billed as inpatient stays based on the physician’s judgment, but the change means that complete documentation is more important than ever before.