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Hospital-acquired infections continue to plague patients FierceHealthcare Share     Ten years after the problem first gained attention, hospital-acquired infections continue to plague patients. For three out of five conditions being measured, the statistics have gotten worse, according to reports released April 13 by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). More
Make the ASHES Annual Conference & Healthcare Marketplace your most important destination this year! Share
Watch this personal invitation to attend the conference from ASHES President Fiona Nemetz, CHESP, Patti Costello, and Planning Committee Member, Rick Sefner, CHESP. Watch video. Registration Open! Process your registration on or before April 23, 2010 and save. Visit the registration website now. Patient safety, quality experts hope health reform delivers substantial improvements in care American Medical News Share
Most of the attention given to the health reform law has focused on its sweeping changes to the insurance system. But the law also could dramatically change the way that care is delivered, according to experts on patient safety and quality. For example, the overhaul uses pay bonuses and penalties to physicians and hospitals to incentivize the care coordination and safety interventions that can help prevent nosocomial infections and unnecessary hospital readmissions. It also requires an unprecedented level of public reporting on hospital and physician quality performance, and could hasten implementation of care improvement practices, experts said. More
OSHA enforcement focuses on Spanish-language training HCPro Share
Making sure that employers provide non-English OSHA training, when needed, will soon become an enforcement initiative. That announcement came during the April 14 keynote address at the National Action Summit for Latino Worker Health and Safety by Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis. "OSHA will also assure that its Compliance Officers check and verify not only that the training has been provided, but that it was provided in a format that the workers being trained can understand," said Solis. For more in this initiative, including an OSHA interpretation letter addressing this issue, a downloadable table of Common English/Spanish Bloodborne Pathogens Training Terms, and links to non-English healthcare-related workplace safety training resources, go to today's featured post, "OSHA training no longer lost in the translation." More
Hospital rankings show reputation more than quality, study says BusinessWeek Share
Hospitals rated as top by U.S. News & World Report are chosen using a system that reflects their reputation with little connection to objective measures of quality of care, a study said. The hospitals ranked No. 1 for each of 12 medical specialties in the magazine survey reached the top spot based on their reputation scores alone, 100 percent of the time, according to an analysis published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The reputation scores were "minimally associated" with objective quality measures that were also examined for each hospital, according to the study from Case Western Reserve University. More
Hospitals prepare for National Hospital Week AHA News Now Share
Hospitals will celebrate National Hospital Week May 9-15. Sponsored by the AHA, the annual event celebrates the dedicated professionals who make hospitals beacons of confidence and care. More
AHRQ reports HAI rates remain problematic Infection Control Weekly Share
The annual National Healthcare Quality Report compiled by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, determined that HAI rates continued to rise in the last year, despite an increased focus on patient safety and infection control. AHRQ calls for a number of changes including new quality measures, better standardization of quality measures, and removing barriers to patient care as well as increased training for healthcare professionals. Click here for more analysis of the report and reactions from national infection control associations. More
Who is at risk for MRSA? Infection Control Today Share
A multi-center study led by a researcher at Rhode Island Hospital has determined that long-term elder care, HIV-infected and hemodialysis patients are at increased risk of carrying methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in their nose. The study also found that patients have vastly different quantities of MRSA in their noses, a potential indicator for their risk of developing an infection after surgery. The study appears in the June 2010 edition of the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology and appears online in advance of print. More |
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