100 Patient Safety Benchmarks — 2014 For hospitals, benchmarking data can be incredibly valuable. Click to Continue>> Advocate Health Care’s 5 Keys to Patient Safety Earlier last week, The Leapfrog Group released its 2014 spring Hospital Safety Scores. Click…
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The average hospital spends about $1 million a year to run its credentialing program. However, these programs help hospitals avoid adverse events, which cost the average hospital $5.1 million each year, according to an infographic from IntelliCentrics.
The Fayetteville (N.C.) VA Medical Center announced it will temporarily downgrade its emergency department to an urgent care clinic until its staffing issues are resolved, according to a report from the Fayetteville Observer.
Efforts to reduce emergency department visits associated with adverse drug events should focus on psychiatric medications, which are top offenders when it comes to root causes of ED visits, according to new research from JAMA Psychiatry.
Accountable care organizations participating in the Pioneer program and Medicare Shared Savings Program reduced Medicare spending by $817 million last year, according to CMS.
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Following the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, emergency department use fell among young adults ages 19 to 25, who are now able to stay on their parents' plans until age 26, according to a Stanford University…
In its months-long probe of scheduling at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Phoenix, the Office of the Inspector General was unable to prove that scheduling delays caused the deaths of nearly 40 veterans, according to a report from NPR.
Violent incidents involving hospital workers have increased nearly 40 percent in the last three years, according to the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety.
Ebola has been called "the scariest virus" in existence, and for good reason. As described in the 1994 book "The Hot Zone," by Richard Preston (which I read, with horror, more than a decade ago), Ebola attacks its victims like…
Why do hospitals most often activate their emergency preparedness plans? The 2014 Emergency Management Survey from Health Facilities Management, the Association for the Healthcare Environment and the Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management, a survey of 911 hospitals,…