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St. Joseph Health System Focuses on Delivering Perfect Care with New Technology to Mitigate Risk and Improve Patient Safety

April 30, 2011 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Orange, California, April 30, 2011—St. Joseph Health System, a $4.6 billion healthcare system headquartered in Orange, California, announced a partnership with RF Surgical Systems, the market leader in the prevention and detection of retained surgical sponges.

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Cautious Patient Foundation Announces New Grants Program Aimed to Improve Patient Safety and Quality of Healthcare

April 18, 2011 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Houston, Texas, April 18, 2011—The Cautious Patient Foundation (CPF), the outreach and educational arm of Patient Always First, a nonprofit organization committed to educating and empowering patients in the quest for quality health care, announced a new grants program to support initiatives that successfully move patients toward greater engagement in their personal or family healthcare process.

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Patient Mobilization

April 7, 2011 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Patient Mobilization

Best practices improve health outcomes and ensure safety for patients and staff alike.

By Barbara Peterson, RN, BSN, MPH, and Betty Bogue, RN, BSN

As research supports the critical need for mobilizing hospitalized patients, the adage “If you don’t use it, you will lose it” sums up the weakness and loss of functional status seen with prolonged bed rest. In the hospital setting, patients often depend on their caregivers for mobilization.

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Safer PCA Therapy

April 7, 2011 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Safer PCA Therapy

Patient Safety Benefits of Continuous Respiratory Rate and End Tidal Monitoring

By Tim Vanderveen, PharmD, MS

The following interviews were adapted from a November 12, 2010, webcast, “Safer PCA Therapy,” that explored the application of continuous monitoring for patients receiving opioids, most typically using patient-controlled analgesia (PCA).

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ISMP: Root Causes: A Roadmap to Action

April 6, 2011 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

ISMP

Root Causes: A Roadmap to Action

By the Institute for Safe Medication Practices

Problem: After receiving a report of a medication error that reached a 4-year-old child, we were once again reminded that errors are almost never caused by the failure of a single element in the system.

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ARQH: What Is Your Organization’s Patient Safety Culture?

April 6, 2011 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

ARQH

What Is Your Organization’s Patient Safety Culture?

By Carolyn M. Clancy, MD

Ask any frontline clinician or healthcare support staff if they can identify the components that make up a “culture of patient safety,” and you might get a vague answer in response. But ask those same health providers if they feel they can speak up to report patient safety concerns without fearing retribution, and you’re likely to get very specific responses.

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Editor’s Notebook: New Resources for Patient Engagement

April 5, 2011 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Editor’s Notebook

New Resources for Patient Engagement

By Susan Carr

It’s easy enough to say that patient engagement—the process of including patients as respected and equal partners by removing barriers to information and participation—is important.

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Doctors Talk Openly about Medical Errors in When Healthcare Hurts

April 4, 2011 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

April 4, 2011—Any doctor can make a mistake, get a complaint or be involved in an incident. Several impressive, personal stories are now collected in the book When Healthcare Hurts. Doctors share their darkest hours.

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Health Language Signs Agreement with Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association

March 31, 2011 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Denver, March 31, 2011—Health Language, Inc. (HLI), the global leader in medical and administrative terminology management, announced that the Chicago-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) has selected HLI as a preferred vendor to help Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies transition smoothly and efficiently from ICD-9 to ICD-10 by the Oct. 1, 2013, deadline mandated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

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ProCare Research Launches PRISM Patient Management System at American Academy of Pain Medicine Annual Meeting

March 30, 2011 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 30, 2011—ProCare Research, LLC, a physician-led medical research organization focused on value-based approaches to healthcare with an emphasis on the relationship between quality and cost, is set to unveiled its PRISM Patient Management System at the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) 2011 Annual Meeting, March 24-27 in National Harbor, Maryland.