Workforce
The American Hospital Association offers these resources for addressing health care workforce issues for leaders of hospitals and health systems.
Hospitals and health systems have the ability to shape more effective health care through choices they make about managing their own employee health plans.
Health care leaders across the nation have instituted hand-hygiene policies to prevent the spread of infections by staff. Compliance with these policies, however, falls woefully short in many facilities.
Case in point: In summer 2014, researchers from the University of New Mexico and the New…
It’s the proverbial match made in heaven for Northwest Community Hospital, northwest of Chicago in Arlington Heights, Ill., and Little City Foundation in nearby Palatine. For the past 20 years, the hospital has hired residents with disabilities from Little City to fill jobs in environmental…
Hep C deaths at all-time high
19,659: Number of U.S. deaths related to the hepatitis C virus in 2014, the highest number in history. The number of acute HCV cases hit 2,194 in 2014, more than 2.5 times the number in 2010.
Increased testing and increased access to treatment are considered the…
In her book Notes on Nursing, originally published in 1859, Florence Nightingale stressed the importance of a number of environmental factors that are now understood to be critical to patient care, such as cleanliness, noise control, natural light and views of nature. Nurses have long…
Spectrum Health, a Michigan health care system serving both urban and nonurban areas, is striving to quantify the benefits that community health workers provide to patients with chronic conditions. The initiative demonstrates how wide-ranging health care networks like Spectrum can adapt specific…
Relationships between health systems and physicians have undergone significant change in recent years as the health care field transforms into a value-based system of quality, patient satisfaction and cost effectiveness. As health care organizations seek the clinical integration necessary to…
Appointments
• The Houston County Health Care Authority appointed Richard O. Sutton system CEO of Southeast Alabama Medical Center and president of the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine as of May 16. In this role, Sutton has executive oversight for Southeast Alabama Medical Center, Alabama…
Century Club Growing
Number of Americans 100 years old and older:
1980: 15,000
2000: 50,281
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