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Room design can play a critical role in improving patient safety
Hospitals & Health Networks
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Efforts to reduce the spread of health care acquired infections are showing progress. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for example, reports a 70 percent sustained reduction in central line-associated blood stream infections due to the practice of evidence-based guidelines. Yet there's more work to be done. About one in every 20 patients contracts a health care acquired infection, posing a significant risk to patient safety and adding more than $30 billion in cost to the health care system
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Joint Commission Resources awarded funds to improve hospital care and patient safety
Healthcare Purchasing News
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Joint Commission Resources is one of 26 leading health care organizations that will work with hospitals to make health care safer and less costly by targeting and reducing the millions of preventable injuries and complications from health care associated conditions.
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12 challenges and opportunities for hospitals in 2012
Becker's Hospital review
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It may be difficult to believe, but 2012 means hospitals are only in the second year of health care reform. Many call this time one of uncertainty, which is true, but it also presents great opportunity for innovation, change and growth. Some concepts of health care reform that once seemed novel or troublesome are now beginning to mature, and the industry is becoming more sophisticated in its approach and implementation of the law.
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AMA: Research on patient safety in ambulatory settings 'remarkably limited'
Becker's ASC Review
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Despite growing scrutiny and awareness of patient safety, medical errors and health care quality, research and patient safety initiatives in ambulatory care settings have been "remarkably limited" in the past decade, according to a report released by the American Medical Association.
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Researchers find that organisms persist on paper, transfer to hands
Infection Control Today
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Nils-Olaf Hubner, M.D., an infection control consultant for the Institute for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine of the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald in Germany, and colleagues, sought to determine by laboratory investigation how long bacterial pathogens can survive on office paper and whether bacteria can be transferred from hands to paper and back to hands in a "worst-case scenario." Their research appears in the December 2011 issue of the American Journal of Nursing.
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Boosting health care security with smart cards
Blogger News Network
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The Smart Card Alliance has put together a list of frequently asked questions about how smart cards work in a health care environment, and provided excellent answers. A smart card resembles a typical credit card, but is embedded with a small microprocessor chip, which makes it "smart." That chip is a powerful minicomputer that can be programmed in different ways to boost security.
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Partnership with OSHA boosts worker safety
Health Facilities Management
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As construction neared completion on the new $654 million hospital building at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center, one of the greatest attributes of the new facility will never be seen by patients, staff or visitors. Dramatic improvements in construction worker safety at the site produced staggering results.
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Progress report: Quality measurement tools and collaboration drive success
Health Facilities Management
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When Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington, N.J., saw an outbreak of a new mutated strain of Clostridium difficile in 2004, environmental services and infection prevention leaders quickly responded.
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Private rooms: Evidence-based design in hospitals
CMAJ
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It almost seems self-evident that there is a link between a patient's psychological and physical recovery and their environment.
But for those who nevertheless doubt it, the evidence proves it.
Yet while evidence-based design of hospitals and health care facilities has become an accepted principle in health architecture circles, it's embryonic in practice.
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Protect the people and places in your care while saving money, improving safety, and reducing the environmental impact of your cleaning operations. Tennant ec-H2O technology can help. MORE
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