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Virtual nurse program brings seasoned clinicians to the bedside
To bolster new nurses at the bedside, Ochsner Medical Center in Kenner, La., started a virtual nurse program for its medical/surgical and telemetry units.
Federal committee leadership opportunities available
The Nomination Consortium invites nursing leaders to apply for two federal committee leadership opportunities.
Three Reasons to Vaccinate Children Against COVID-19
Clinicians at St. Louis Children’s Hospital are making sure parents and caregivers know how to evaluate respiratory illness symptoms when children get sick during the peak of cold and flu season when RSV and COVID-19 cases are expected to rise. The hospital continues to urge COVID-19 vaccination for children age 6 months and older, emphasizing the importance of vaccinating young children to prevent death, avoid severe illness and help protect all family members.
AHA releases new resource to promote pediatric COVID-19 vaccination
AHA this week released a new Thanksgiving-focused toolkit to help promote pediatric COVID-19 vaccination on social media, including sample content and graphics.
HHS to create Action Alliance to advance patient and workforce safety
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and leaders from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and Food and Drug Administration yesterday held a listening session with certain health system leaders and patient safety advocates they invited to discuss the department’s plan to launch next year a National Healthcare System Action Alliance to Advance Patient Safety.
Webinar, playbook explore rural health care investment models
In recognition of National Rural Health Day Nov. 17, AHA recently released a webinar recording exploring new rural health care partnership models developed by the Build Healthy Places Network to invest in community health.
CMS releases voluntary sample formats for hospital price transparency files
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday released three voluntary sample formats (wide, tall and plain) that hospitals may use to meet the federal requirement to make certain standard charges publicly available through a machine-readable file. The agency also posted a sample data dictionary for the wide and tall formats.
Achieving a 1% Standard for Blood Culture Contamination Rate
In this webinar, learn more about these current and future measures to reduce contamination rates and improve the accuracy of blood culture results, and the practice change initiative of the Kentucky Hospital Association (KHA) to benchmark blood culture contamination rates and drive evidence-based best practices to reduce these rates statewide.
4 Key Predictions for Health Care in 2023 and How to Respond
In 2023, provider organizations can expect significant evolutionary changes in how to optimize patient engagement, the ever-expanding role that retail clinics will play in care delivery and some upheaval in venture capital funding for health care startups.