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Think of all the instruments, equipment and furniture in a hospital operating room. Any of these surfaces can harbor microorganisms that cause infection. At Fletcher Allen Health Care, an academic and university medical center in Burlington, Vt., infection prevention includes multifaceted…
ProMedica's (NW Ohio and SE Michigan) mission is to improve the health and well-being of the people it serves. Through partnerships with local and regional organizations and the community health needs assessment conducted by its member hospitals, ProMedica identified hunger as a significant health…
Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, Jackson, Miss.– 633 beds– 3,000-plus employees
Concord (N.H.) Hospital • 230-bed regional medical center • 17,194 admissions • 295 medical staff • 2,631 employees
Improving discharge can reap multiple benefits for patients and providers, including reducing readmissions. At Dameron Hospital, a 202-bed community hospital in Stockton, Calif., staff aimed to reduce readmissions for congestive heart failure patients, expecting to learn about decreasing…
Telepsychiatry is playing a pivotal role in providing timely care to hospitalized mental health patients and to others beyond hospital walls. At Seton Shoal Creek Hospital, a mental health hospital in Austin, Texas, Kari Wolf, M.D., vice president, medical affairs, started using telemedicine to…
Providing culturally competent care to patients requires a focus on more than just race, ethnicity and language. Religion plays a major role in individual lives and in our society. Religious diversity is an important factor in care and can be easily overlooked in health care.This webinar examined…