Back-breaking work
Nurses lobby for patient-handling equipment and supplies As you walk the halls of your facilities, no doubt you’ve seen nurses manually moving or repositioning patients….
2014
April 2014
Click Here to Read the April issue (w link to PDF download) Making Alarms Count Culture change and teamwork – not capital investment –…
Solution Spotlight
Improving Infection Control Outcomes: Antimicrobial scale| The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 2 million hospital patients contract a Healthcare Acquired Infection (HAI)…
Set Yourself up for Success
Editor’s Note: Hospitals and health systems continue to extend into ambulatory settings to achieve cost savings, maintain stakeholder satisfaction and achieve growth. As they do…
Editor’s Note: Doctors are speaking your language
It was a tough winter. Healthcare reform launched inauspiciously. Questions were raised (by a RAND Corp. report released in early March) about the promise of…
In the Headlines
California: Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System interested in acquisitions In January 2014, Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System (San Jose, CA) announced…
State Level Accountability
By William Foltz Could a new ACO model work at the state-level? Medicare and commercial insurers dominate the current conversation about accountable care organizations (ACOs)…
Service Contract Management
By Joe Haduch Is the Affordable Care Act appears less and less affordable, the value of service contract management takes on an even higher level…
Healthcare attire and infection prevention
Can healthcare personnel in non-OR settings transmit healthcare-associated infections via their uniforms or attire? Possibly. That’s why, as more evidence is being developed, hospitals should…
Annual Pharmacy Forum focuses on the future
After only a few presentations at the 2014 National Pharmacy Forum – an annual event co-hosted by the Healthcare Supply Chain Association (HSCA) and the…