Quick, Cheap, and Effective: Oral Care Makes Serious Dent in Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Cases
If you work in healthcare, then you’re probably aware that there’s room for improvement. You’re also probably aware of the deluge of strategies, solutions, recommendations, and guidance on enhancing quality and patient safety—all of which require time, money, equipment, metrics, and manpower you may not have.
Hospitals Worry Repeal of Affordable Healthcare Act Will Jeopardize Innovation in Care
The American Hospital Association estimates that hospitals across the U.S. could lose more than $160 billion from the reduction in Medicaid revenue and the increase in unpaid medical bills.
Hospital Study Demonstrates Remarkable Improvement in CPR Quality with Low-Dose, High-Frequency Training
CPR proficiency was the subject of a recent UAB Hospital ED study in which Jones took part. Hospital staff are traditionally required to undergo formal CPR training once every two years. But is that enough?
Trump: For Every New Healthcare Regulation, Two Must Be Removed
On January 30, President Trump signed a new executive order declaring a “one-in, two-out” rule for healthcare regulations. Under the executive order, for a new healthcare regulation to be implemented two older regulations will have to be eliminated.
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Finalized MACRA Rule Ties Quality Measurements to Value-Based Payments
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) institutes new regulations that will bolster CMS’ Quality Payment Program by rewarding value through Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APM) and the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).
Call for Nominations for Sherman Award
Nominations opened today for the 2017 Sherman Award for Engaging Patients. The award, which is sponsored by EngagingPatients.org, an online community dedicated to sharing best practices in patient and family engagement, is given in partnership with the National Patient Safety Foundation’s (NPSF) Lucian Leape Institute and Taylor Healthcare.
Tackling Patients’ Social Problems Can Cut Health Costs
Donning a protective gown, rubber gloves and a face mask, Dayna Gurley looks like she’s heading into surgery. But Gurley is a medical social worker charged with figuring out why her client, a man who uses more health care services than almost anyone else in Houston, has been in three different hospitals in the last month.
Share Your Patient Safety Story
Do you have a story about a positive (or negative) patient safety experience you overcame in your career? Did you or your department come up with an innovation to improve the patient safety experience or processes? Whatever your story, we want to hear it!
Q & A: The Benefits of Patient Engagement
Patient engagement is the missing variable that we haven’t sufficiently studied or acted upon. If you think about how much time we emphasize on chronic disease for example, where it’s responsible for about 40% of the deaths in the U.S. and maybe 70%-80% of the costs.