Promoting patient safety and improving the quality of patient care
Tag: Hospital-acquired infections
This week’s must reads demonstrate that improving patient safety and health outcomes can be accomplished.
As a recent article by Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), “Patient Harm: Attaining & Sustaining Dramatic Improvements”, says, “prevention-oriented leaders are scrapping outdated ideas and finding new approaches and technologies that are making a big difference.” Continue reading “Weekly Must Reads in Patient Safety (May 29, 2015)”
By Lynn Razzano RN, MSN, ONCC (Clinical Nurse Consultant)
That’s the bottom line of a report from the Healthcare Management Council (HMC). HMC analyzed federal data to identify the most common hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) as well as their annual cost per patient and the annual average cost to hospitals. Continue reading “Clinical tip: Completely preventable problems cost an average-sized hospital millions per year”