The Joint Commission revised the language to its pain management standard to encourage healthcare organizations to manage pain by using pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic strategies.
The Leapfrog Group last week released the fall 2014 update to its Hospital Safety Scores, which find that hospital outcome performance is still lacking.
A new HCPro webcast will help hospitals prepare a response plan in the event they receive a patient with Ebola symptoms. The 60-minute program is scheduled for Monday, November 17 at 1 p.m. and will be presented by Marge McFarlane, PhD, MT(ASCP), CHSP, CHFM, HEM, MEP, CHEP and Thomas A. Smith,...
Two new research studies released this month found that better collaboration with community-based caregivers is the best way to reduce hospital readmissions.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week released new guidelines for emergency department workers to evaluate and manage patients who show with symptoms of Ebola.
Some hospital employees are challenging facility mandated flu vaccinations, highlighted by a lawsuit filed by the Massachusetts Nurses Association against Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.