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Nation's Hospital Report Card Spurs High Performance Huberta Mayfield-Howe was right on the money when she recommended that Cooper Green Mercy Hospital become an early adopter of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Provider and Systems (HCAHPS) survey, the first national standard for the collection and public reporting of data on patient satisfaction. … (read more)
If the 1999 Institute of Medicine report To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System sounded the alarm, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaido Services (CMS) have issued a final wake-up call to any hospitalooo administration that is still napping. … (read more)
“As Real as it Gets”: The Evolution of Trauma Care and Emergency Medicine Born on the battlefield, trauma care came of age during the turbulent 1960s, when the lessons learned in the Korean and Vietnam conflicts were brought back to the United States to treat trauma on the home front. To be sure, there were hospital emergency rooms long before that time, but they would hardly be recognizable compared to today’s high-tech emergency departments and Level I trauma centers. … (read more)
When Jean Kutner talks about palliative care, the first thing she says is that the demand for trained providers has far outstripped the supply. “I hear several times a month from either palliative care or hospice programs that are looking for appropriately trained physicians and nurses that there simply are not enough trained specialists to fill the need.” … (read more)
Collaborative Response to Social Issues Public hospitals are committed to the communities they serve and offer a range of creative outreach services. But oftentimes, they can’t go at it alone. They rely on community groups to help build bridges to area residents in order to identify concerns and reach out to those in need, and to offer support services beyond what the hospital can provide alone.
Helping Teens Make Healthy Choices When Kristin Rager gets on her soapbox, here’s what she says: “Adolescents are faced with decisions that can impact their health both immediately and long-term. The top three causes of death for teens are accidental trauma, homicide, and suicide. The ridiculous thing is that each of these is 100 percent preventable.” … (read more)
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