Acclaimed Clinical Leader Offers 4 Steps to Quality Improvement
Quality improvement is crucial, not only to benefit the patient but also to enhance processes for the staff. “[Quality improvement] has the best outcome for the team and ultimately for the patient, so it’s mission critical for an organization,” says Kerri Scanlon, executive director of Northwell Health’s Glen Cove Hospital .
Integrating Communication for Better Patient Care—and Better Provider Experiences
Efficient communication and sharing of data are key to patient care improvements. The healthcare integration market is enormous—expected to hit $7.5 billion by 2026—and organizations are constantly on the lookout for better ways to collaborate securely to improve patient care.
Six Benefits of Community Paramedicine In-Home Health Services
One of the hallmarks of community paramedicine is that patient care starts—and in many cases, stays—in the home. By delivering treatment through in-home health services, patients receive streamlined treatment when they need it at a fraction of the cost. In addition, in-home care reduces demands on local healthcare systems.
PSQH: The Podcast Episode 18 – Using Lean Management to Improve IV Therapy
On episode 18 of PSQH: The Podcast, host Jay Kumar talks to Lee Steere of Hartford Hospital about how the hospital transformed its infusion therapy practices.
Q&A: The Need for Better Training for IV Insertions
A collaboration announced in October 2020 between the Association for Vascular Access (AVA) and B. Braun Medical Inc. seeks to improve clinician training on the placement of PIVCs. Together, the organizations will develop and provide a series of online courses free of charge to schools of medicine, nursing, respiratory therapy, and other allied health professionals—the first of which is being currently piloted at several leading nursing schools.
PSMF Renews Efforts to Improve Patient Safety in Hospitals
Patient Safety Movement was founded in 2012 with the goal of eliminating preventable patient deaths by 2020. While it fell short of that goal, the group says its hospital and health system partners saved 366,353 lives during 2012-2020 by improving processes. Still, there is much more to be done.
Share Your Innovative Quality Improvement Ideas
Any professional who is currently involved in patient safety or quality improvement is welcome to submit a case study application. The 2021 PSQH Contest Committee, in conjunction with the PSQH administrative team, will select one case study to highlight on PSQH.
RAND: Boost Efforts to Integrate Family Caregivers Into Healthcare Teams
The new report says there are multiple clinical benefits from integrating home caregivers into formal healthcare teams, including improving patient access to services, reducing unmet needs of patients, boosting quality of care, and delaying patient institutionalization.
Making Breast Cancer Treatment Less Invasive
Evidence indicates that for patients with low risk and good prognosis, localized treatment with targeted intraoperative radiotherapy (TARGIT) may be equally as effective as standard radiation, with potentially less damage to normal tissues and organs.
Health System-Owned Specialty Pharmacies Gain New Voice
The level of integration varies among health systems. Some health systems have pharmacists embedded in the clinics, while others manage their patients centrally from their operations center. In both scenarios, the documentation of education and patient counseling is captured in the health system’s electronic health record, in which both providers and pharmacists work.