Showing posts with label hospital admission. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hospital admission. Show all posts
Monday, April 18, 2011

Not Running a Hospital: Painfully slow

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You can already imagine the responses. "That's just in North Carolina." "Our patients are sicker." "There a...
Sunday, April 3, 2011

How to Find the Best Hospital Near You - US News and World Report

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Some Americans are fortunate enough to live down the street from a world-class hospital. For them, where to go for highly skilled care is c...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Medical News: Arizona Mulls Checking Hospital Patients' Citizenship - in Public Health & Policy, Health Policy from MedPage Today

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Arizona's state government is considering new legislation that would prevent hospitals from giving nonemergency treatment to suspected ...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Released hospital patients' many unhappy returns

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Patients who are released from the hospital too early or without proper planning and instructions often wind up back in the hospital after ...
Friday, February 4, 2011

New babies and heart attacks don't stop in a blizzard - themorningsun.com

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Snowstorms don’t stop babies from being born, people from being hospitalized, and they don’t stop heart attacks. That means that the matern...
Thursday, February 3, 2011

CMS Initiative Will Link Incentives With Reduced Infections, Readmissions - California Healthline

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CMS is planning a "major multi-year financial commitment" involving Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers that aims to curb hos...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

CMS 30-minute rule for drug administration needs revision, ISMP.org

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In our June 17, 2010 newsletter, we covered a precarious topic best known as the “30-minute rule”—a requirement in the Centers for Medica...
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Saving Grace (Emergency Department Nurses)- LA Times Magazine

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“I heard a guttural scream,” Rich says, “and a man was handing me his lifeless son.” “How old?” I ask. “Nine months. We worked on h...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Hospital care easier, faster with standing orders - CNN.com

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My patient one day, a spry 80-year-old, started to cough and feel short of breath during a blood transfusion: classic signs of a transfusio...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

Guides help recovering patients find long-term care | The Salt Lake Tribune

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An uncomfortable truth for anyone facing disability for a year or more: If you go into a nursing home, you might never get out. Under pa...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

Everything about medicine is now big business, KevinMD

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Med­i­cine used to be different. Doc­tors couldn’t do too much for you. They didn’t get paid very much and they were focused more on help...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Cancer patients die too often in hospitals, study says - The Boston Globe

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Researchers at the Dartmouth Atlas Project in Lebanon, N.H., analyzed the records of 235,821 Medicare patients ages 65 and older who died b...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Hospital care fatal for some Medicare patients - USATODAY.com

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An estimated 15,000 Medicare patients die each month in part because of care they receive in the hospital, says a government study release...
Friday, November 12, 2010

Hospitals try high-tech to better inform patients - San Jose Mercury News

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Friday, October 15, 2010

Being an ER nurse is ‘like living on the edge - Little Falls, NY - The Times

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Being an ER nurse is ‘like living on the edge - Little Falls, NY - The Times :"Being an ER nurse is ‘like living on the edge:"Coun...