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The use of 'triggers' or clues to identify adverse events is an effective method for measuring the overall level of harm in a health care organization. The IHI Global Trigger Tool for Measuring Adverse Events provides instructions for training reviewers in this methodology and conducting a…
This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.
OverviewBecky's Place is a boutique located inside Lexington Medical Center that offers products including wigs, mastectomy bras and prosthetics for women who are recovering from breast cancer. Open since 2000, it is named in honor of a Lexington Medical Center Foundation board member and…
OverviewThese two small hospitals and the five southwest Kansas communities they serve – Ashland, Coldwater, Englewood, Protection, and Wilmore – joined forces to benefit the women of their communities. The towns recently formed a non-profit organization, the WEPAC Alliance, which is dedicated to…
My goal in this article is to use the laws of physics to help readers think in new ways about shaping the culture of their hospitals. If it's true that culture eats strategy for lunch, then a cultural plan is more important than a strategic plan.
What is it?This program is designed to increase child safety awareness. Hospital personnel present programs throughout the three local grade schools and pre-schools on child passenger safety, safe routes to school, bike safety and water safety. Car seats, life jackets and smoke detectors are given…
AHA and five other national hospital organizations today filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's expansion of the Medicaid program and reject the argument of FL and other states that it is unlawfully "coercive." If "…
What is it?Our free Industrial Luncheons are an outreach program providing health-related topics for the Neodesha Industrial Community, which consists of approximately 15 industries. Topics are picked that will interest and educate the industries’ Human Resources departments. Recent topics covered…