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Leadership

New Collaboration Brings Risk Management Education to Healthcare Executives

October 13, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Four leading education and healthcare organizations announced a new education program to bring world-class practices in strategic decision-making and risk management to healthcare executives and professionals.

Technology

Bloodstream Infection Surveillance Inconsistent Between Institutions, U-M Study Shows

October 8, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

A new study looking at how hospitals identify pediatric patients who develop catheter-associated bloodstream infections (CA-BSI) found significant inconsistencies in the methods used to report the number of patients who develop them.

Technology

Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital Plans to Expand Bar Code Scanning to Blood Product Administration

October 8, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital has partnered with McKesson to expand the hospital’s use of bar-code scanning technology to blood product administration.

Technology

IHI Awarded Federal Funding to Develop and Disseminate Innovations in Healthcare Delivery

October 7, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 7, 2010—The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has awarded a five-year Master Contract to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) to help accelerate adoption of new models of health care delivery nationally. The contract is awarded through AHRQ’s Accelerating Change and Transformation in Organizations and Networks (ACTION) II initiative. … Continued

Quality Improvement

Adventist Health System Partners with Language Line Services to Bolster Language Access for Limited English Speaking Patients

October 7, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Adventist Health System, the largest not-for-profit Protestant healthcare provider in the nation, has partnered with Language Line Services to offer its 43 hospitals and numerous clinics access to a comprehensive suite of interpreting and translation services in an effort to better serve its limited English proficient patients and families.

Risk Management

Trauma Surgeon Develops Multidisciplinary Protocol to Eliminate Ventilator-associated Pneumonia

October 6, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Critically ill patients on a breathing tube are at risk not only from their injuries or diseases, but also from infections they can contract in the hospital. One of the most common infections is pneumonia from breathing tubes.

Environment and Facilities

Medical Simulation Corporation Signs Agreement With a Nationally Ranked Hospital

October 6, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Medical Simulation Corporation (MSC) proudly announces a new agreement with Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a teaching-affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a healthcare leader in patient quality, safety, and education.

Quality Improvement

Healthcare Reform and Increased Patient Needs Require Transformation of Nursing Profession

October 5, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Nurses’ roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America’s increasingly complex health system, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine.

Technology

Standard Register Poised to Make Impact in UK with Patient ID Bands

October 1, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Long recognized for its patient identification leadership, Standard Register Healthcare is now poised to make its mark in the United Kingdom (UK).

Patient Safety

P.U.R.E. Conversations in Obstetrics

September 30, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Raising SBAR to a Higher Level
P.U.R.E. Conversations in Obstetrics

By Larry Veltman, MD, FACOG; Kristine Larison, RNC, BSN, MBA

Despite a widespread effort to improve patient safety in obstetrics, injuries still occur. These injuries can be devastating both to families who sustain them and to the caregivers involved in the actual event.