Articles Tagged With: issues
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Healthcare Planning for the Lone Senior
Social isolation is a life-and-death matter, believed to influence mortality as much as obesity and smoking. Yet amid the growing population of seniors, many are unmarried, widowed, or have no children living nearby. When discharge planning for the lone senior, case managers should know several points about this demographic.
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Managing and Mingling Hospital, ASC Cultures
Hospitals continue outsourcing to ASCs, causing intermingling of services and cultures that challenge both. Surgery centers decided they could improve the services in their own facilities better than in the traditional hospital environment. However, hospitals have made great strides in the improvement of their services and are eager to joint venture with surgeons in several ways.
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Pediatric Oncology Ethics Consults Few in Number, Limited in Scope
Research findings may suggest clinicians do not recognize ethical dilemmas other than treatment-related decision-making and care goals at life’s end. More education could help medical teams identify important ethical issues and to call on the proper resources to address those issues when needed.
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Safety Huddles Raise 1,500 Issues in One Year
During 2015, the safety huddles implemented at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown, NY, has increased incident and event reporting by 51% over baseline from previous years, and the increased rate is continuing in 2016, says Ronette Wiley, RN, MHSA, CPPS, vice president of performance improvement at the hospital.
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Safety Huddles Produce Results If They Are Controlled and Monitored
Leaders at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown, NY, worried in 2014 that its culture of safety could be improved, particularly the length of time it took to resolve known safety issues. When a review of data revealed a decline in staff reporting actual and near-miss events, the vice president for patient safety and performance improvement called for the development of a safety huddle policy.
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Frontline safety issues are not always heard by hospital and health system leaders
When hospital leaders conduct safety rounds at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System in Baltimore, MD, they don’t rely on just friendly chat and a checklist of policies and procedures.