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.
Budget Scorekeepers Say GOP Plan Would Raise the Number of Uninsured by 32 M
The bill considered the most likely prototype for partial repeal of the Affordable Care Act would result in as many as 32 million more people without health insurance and would double premiums in the individual insurance market, budget scorekeepers said Tuesday.
USP<800>: Protecting Healthcare Workers From Hazardous Drugs
According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), approximately 8 million American healthcare workers are potentially exposed to hazardous drugs each year.
MRSA Rates Dropped 87% in VA Hospital ICUs
Institutional culture changes over an eight-year period made infection prevention and control “everyone’s business,” researchers say. Active surveillance was a major driver.
Feedback Sought on Joint Commission Pain Assessment and Management Program
The Joint Commission seeks feedback on the proposed requirements for Pain Assessment and Management for Hospitals.
NPSF Patient Safety Congress Special Issue
Dear readers, This is our final installment of the NPSF Patient Safety Congress special issue series. As I mentioned last week, we will include an article (or two) of interest as it relates to the upcoming conference in addition to our regular content. If you’re going to the 2017 Patient Safety Congress this year … Continued
NPSF Patient Safety Congress Special Issue
Dear readers, This is our second installment of the NPSF Patient Safety Congress special issue series. As I mentioned last week, we will include an article (or two) of interest as it relates to the upcoming conference in addition to our regular content. This is also the beginning of National Nurses Week, so please thank … Continued
Only 20 Percent of Americans Support Health Law Repeal Without Replacement Plan
The Republican strategy of repealing the Affordable Health Care Act before devising a replacement plan has the support of only one in five Americans, a poll released Friday finds.