Improving Healthcare During the Post-COVID Era
In the newest Women in Healthcare Leadership podcast episode, Amy Compton-Phillips shares Seattle-based health system Providence’s COVID-19 learnings, how to improve patient safety and quality, and offers leadership advice.
Caring for the Caregivers: A Look at Improving Care After Discharge
COVID-19 has made it more difficult to bring assistance into the home, so much of the hands-on care for patients falls on untrained family or friends. To make matters worse, economic disparity means those with the least resources during the pandemic are often suffering the most.
Report: Building a Smarter Healthcare Facility
A new report from Honeywell gives healthcare facility managers a chance to voice their thoughts and concerns after more than a year of weathering the pandemic. The report found that 94% of healthcare managers said remote management is important for operational efficiency. Only one in four respondents have such a system in place, but 26% said they plan on investing in this technology over the next year to 18 months.
Banner Health Case Studies
In 2018, Banner brought together a data analyst, nurse communicator, OR specialist, and supply chain contracts lead to form the Surgical and Procedural Value and Alignment Program (SPVAP). In a little more than three years, SPVAP has successfully taken on tough challenges and delivered millions in documented savings—all while helping surgeons improve the level of patient care.
Weighting Changes to CAHPS: The 2021 Scramble
Patient experience is defined by CAHPS surveys—regardless of size, each Medicare Advantage plan will have 800 members surveyed about their experience with the plan, the providers, and the prescription drug program. All eight survey measures that count toward the patient experience rating have quadrupled in weight.
U.S. Prisons Were COVID Hothouses During Pandemic First Wave
Writing in JAMA, University of California at Los Angeles researchers looked at COVID-19 cases and deaths among U.S. federal and state prisoners for 52 weeks from April 5, 2020, to April 3, 2021 and compared these rates with the overall U.S. population.
Nursing Students Who Refuse a Mandated COVID-19 Vaccine Could be Disenrolled
The NCSBN and eight other leading nursing organizations, including the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) and the American Nurses Association (ANA), issued a policy brief to provide guidance to boards of nursing and nursing education programs receiving requests from students for alternate clinical experiences when a program’s clinical sites require the COVID-19 vaccine.
How Nurses are Urging the Unvaccinated to Reconsider
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses has launched Hear Us Out, a nationwide effort to show the COVID-19 pandemic from frontline nurses’ perspective and urge those who have yet to be vaccinated to reconsider.
PSQH: The Podcast Episode 38 – AI and the New Agile Hospital
On episode 38 of PSQH: The Podcast, Dr. Will O’Connor, chief medical information officer of TigerConnect, talks about how technology is changing the way healthcare organizations collaborate and communicate.
Nearly 30% of RNs are at Risk of Leaving Their Organization, New Analysis Reveals
A recently conducted national Flight Risk Analytics assessment analyzing responses from 100,000 healthcare employees revealed a generational divide, leading factors shaping turnover risk, and low levels of engagement among front-line caregivers.