Articles Tagged With: schedule
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The Work of Vaccinating Frontline Healthcare Workers Against COVID-19 Begins
Hospitals are scrambling to ensure a smooth and effective process for vaccinating frontline healthcare workers against COVID-19. Leaders need to quickly equip their personnel with enough information to persuade them that the vaccine is safe and effective.
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Patient Care Goes Forward as Planned: ‘You’re Good to Go’
Patients tend to become anxious when scheduled care is cancelled due to authorization holdups. This happened so often in one system that a decision was made to change the process. If the payer takes too long to give an answer one way or the other, things go forward as planned anyway.
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Research: More Than One-Third of U.S. Children Not Following Recommended Vaccine Schedule
Various sociodemographic factors contribute to irregular patterns.
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CDC Recommends Simpler HPV Vaccine Series for Young Adolescents
The CDC has changed its recommendation for the human papillomavirus vaccine administration from a routine three-dose series to a two-dose series for 9- to 14-year-old children.
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These Problems Made Patients Unhappy, Were Fixed
Here are some problems affecting patient satisfaction in registration areas at Ochsner Healthcare’s Northshore Region in Slidell, LA, that were solved:
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Small changes add up to big benefits for access
Whenever Sarah Thomas, senior director of access systems at Seattle Children’s Hospital, hears a registrar sigh in frustration, she makes a beeline to that employee and asks what’s wrong.
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Eight tips for addressing nurse fatigue
These tips for combatting nurse fatigue come from Bette McNee, health and human services technical specialist with The Graham Company, a healthcare consulting firm in Philadelphia, PA.