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Governance Effectiveness, Nurses, Physician Workforce, Strategic Planning, Issues & Trends, Workforce
OSHA webpage on workplace violence in health care
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has created a Web page featuring strategies and tools to support OSHA’s “Guidelines for Preventing Workplace Violence for Healthcare and Social Service Workers.” Visit www.osha.gov/dsg/hospitals/workplace_violence.html.
Care Delivery, Quality & Patient Safety, Strategic Planning, Issues & Trends
Diabetes rates decline
The number of new cases of diabetes diagnosed in the United States declined significantly from 2009 to 2014 after steadily rising for 25 years, according to data released in December by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The country recorded 1.4 million new cases in 2014, down from 1.7 million in 2008, a decline of about 20 percent. The drop was largest among whites, who had a lower incidence rate overall.
Delivery System Transformation, Strategic Planning
Heroes All
Whenever something truly terrible happens on a large scale somewhere in our nation — whether it’s Newtown, Boston, Charleston, San Bernardino or one of the hundreds of other communities shaken in recent years by acts of human cruelty and violence — our editors and writers always look for the hospital angle. We report on how the local hospital immediately goes into crisis mode by sending staff to the scene, freeing up the emergency department, and making sure there are enough beds, supplies and personnel to meet the awful challenge.
Delivery System Transformation, Governance Effectiveness, Strategic Planning, Leveraging Technology, Issues & Trends
HIMSS conference Feb. 29-May 4 in Las Vegas
More than 40,000 health care information management professionals, clinicians, executives and vendors from around the world will attend HIMSS annual conference and exhibition Feb. 29-March 4 in Las Vegas. Peyton Manning, the National Football League’s five-time most valuable player, will present the closing keynote address. Visit www.himssconference.org.
Delivery System Transformation, Governance Effectiveness, Nurses, Operational Excellence, Care Delivery, Physician Workforce, Quality & Patient Safety, Strategic Planning, Issues & Trends, Workforce
Hospital-acquired conditions drop 17%
Hospitals are making “substantial progress in improving safety,” according to an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality report that found a 17 percent decline in hospital-acquired conditions from 2010 to 2014. That saved 87,000 lives and nearly $20 billion in health costs. HACs include adverse drug events, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, central line-associated bloodstream infections and pressure ulcers, among others.