Patient Safety Monitor Journal answers your most important patient safety questions and offers field-tested compliance strategies to ensure your patient safety efforts measure up to The Joint Commission.
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Is your health IT working against you?
Many hospitals across the nation are already working with health IT, including electronic health records (EHR) and bar code scanning-especially as CMS' Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs (commonly referred to as "meaningful use") promise to provide incentive payments to eligible hospitals as they adopt, implement, upgrade, or demonstrate meaningful use of certified EHR technology.
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Reducing readmissions in heart failure patients
Many hospitals struggle with readmissions, and sometimes a readmission might be out of the control of the hospital. Still, when Jan Williams, RN, BSN, program director for the Health Enhancement Program (HEP) at Mary Lanning Memorial Healthcare (MLMH) in Hastings, Neb., and the rest of the MLMH staff saw readmission rates for heart failure patients increase, they decided to team up with the cardiac rehab department to do something about it.
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Drive-through flu shots for quick vaccination?
The best way to mass vaccinate the general public during flu season is to make flu shots as accessible as possible, and access doesn't get any easier then rolling down your window and rolling up your sleeve.
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Create patient safety solutions that are right for you
Patient safety has long stood on a variety of tenets, some of which have formed the process and basis for how professionals (both leaders and clinicians) conduct improvement work. Some of these are well-known and accepted: Patient safety is a right. A high level of patient safety performance is nonnegotiable. Quality, risk, and patient safety are inseparable. A healthy culture is at the core of ideal patient safety performance.
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Hospital includes community in patient safety
In honor of the National Patient Safety Foundation's Patient Safety Awareness Week, Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, CT, hosted a public panel to discuss patient safety with the community, offering a chance for attendees to get perspectives from all sides of patient care and better understand what they can do to make their care safer.
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