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Effective Communication Is a Critical Strategy in Infection Control
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into focus more than ever before the need for teamwork and communication. To help support health care teams and get everyone on the same page, TeamSTEPPS is a practical, evidence-based set of communications tools developed over decades. It’s been implemented successfully across hospitals and health systems and is now taking on an even greater role with infection prevention and control teams as COVID-19 continues to spread.
AHA continues to voice concerns over proposed UnitedHealth Group acquisition of Change Healthcare
AHA yesterday sent a letter to the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division expressing its serious concern with the adequacy of any remedy to resolve the anticompetitive impact of UnitedHealth Gr
Sutter Health shows value of health system during pandemic
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Sutter Health in Northern California used the range of its system to meet the needs of patients, staff and clinicians, from testing solutions to vaccine rollout.
Case study: SCL Health shows value of health system during pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Broomfield, Colo.-based SCL Health used its resources to dispatch nurses and caregivers where they were most needed, and has taken lessons-learned to better its future collaboration, communication and staff well-being
Case study: OhioHealth shows value of health system during pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Columbus-based OhioHealth applied its expansive resources to analyze over 500,000 PCR tests, create a dedicated supply chain team for personal protective equipment procurement, and redeploy administrative workers to the front lines, avoiding layoffs and even providing bonuses.
Case study: Advocate Aurora Health shows value of health system during pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Milwaukee-based Advocate Aurora Health used its broad resources to ensure adequate supplies and equipment, develop a flexible staffing strategy, create surge predictive models and increase operational efficiencies.
HHS public-private partnership to invest in ways to combat future pandemics and health emergencies
The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday announced a new type of public-private partnership to accelerate the development and commercialization of technologies and medical products needed to respond to, or prevent, future public health emergencies, such as pandemics, and other health security threats.
Blog: When hospitals’ transformations were necessary, Kaufman discusses how partnerships provided value during COVID-19 pandemic
As hospitals and health care systems work to provide the best care possible while also being efficient with the transformative financial burdens brought on by COVID-19, “partnerships have been a necessary response to these pressures,” writes Kenneth Kaufman, managing director and chair of management consultancy KaufmanHall.
Hospital groups support challenge to conditions placed on hospital affiliation
The AHA, Association of American Medical Colleges, and California Hospital Association filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting Huntington Hospital and Cedars-Sinai Health System in their case challenging conditions the California Attorney General seeks to impose on their proposed affiliation.
Blog: Chicago hospital, patients benefit from creation of OUD treatment program
UChicago Medicine found an opportunity to enhance inpatient treatment for opioid use disorder by leveraging non-specialist clinical expertise and collaborating with local community-based treatment providers. Read more from George Weyer, M.D., about this successful consult service and how it formed.