Hospital Peer Review – May 1, 2010
May 1, 2010
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How will health care reform affect hospitals, quality, and payment?
Quality and utilization are going to be inextricably linked as the health care industry moves forward with the health care reform legislation. -
What would Berwick as CMS administrator mean?
Media already are pegging him for the next administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. If in fact President Obama nominates Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, to that position, what would it mean for the health care industry? -
Hospitals tackle MRSA with high reliability
When your board calls for an improvement initiative, it carries some weight. -
Using safety coaches to change behavior
Calvert Memorial Hospital in Prince Frederick, MD, which is part of the VHA Central Atlantic, chose to use safety coaches to monitor hand hygiene compliance. -
Accreditation Field Report: Surveyors educative, more collaborative
Demonstrating that you're prepared is important when Joint Commission surveyors knock on your door, says Susan Bukunt, RN, MPA, CPHQ, senior director of clinical quality and patient safety at El Camino Hospital with two campuses in Los Gatos and Mountain View, CA. -
Bay Medical improves ED throughput via ICU
Frustrated patients, core measures that require timely intervention, and optimizing house beds. Those are the issues Bay Medical Center in Panama City, FL, decided it was going to deal when it hired a consultant in 2008. -
Make learning about patient safety fun
It was a "room of horrors" replete with blood (corn syrup plus food coloring) and spiderwebs.