Category Archives for Hospitals
5 Great Tips for Filling Beds in Your Health Care Facility
Develop Strong Relationships with your Residents As with any business, satisfying your existing customers/clients is a great way to develop an excellent reputation and generate new leads. The title of a book written by Pete Blackshaw says it all – … Continue reading
Stop the CRE Superbug, Save your Residents!
As a health care administrator, you have a responsibility to make every effort to protect your residents. With a “nightmare bacteria” lurking, it is imperative that you take strong measures to ensure that this does not become a threat to … Continue reading
Tags: Carbapenen-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae, CRE, health care, Hospitals, Long Term Care, Superbug
Medicare Study Analyzes Diagnoses and Timing for Hospital Readmissions
According to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association of Medicare fee-for-service claims data for 2007-2009, Medicare patients hospitalized for heart failure, heart attack and pneumonia are readmitted within 30 days for a wide variety of reasons … Continue reading
New York Hospitals Still Far From Back-To-Normal After Sandy
Superstorm Sandy visited briefly two weeks ago, but her impact will be felt in New York for quite some time to come. Power has finally been restored to 99% of the affected homes, and gasoline rationing has ended for our … Continue reading
Tags: disaster recovery, Hospitals, New York
Missing the Forest for the Trees
Hospitalization of Seniors for Acute Care Generates a Host of New Health issues While physicians focus on treating their hospitalized patients’ ills, discharging them once those acute problems are resolved – they tend to be oblivious to the fact that … Continue reading
Coordination of Care Hits New Heights in Manhattan
As the health care system evolves, one of the key success factors that comes up time and again is the ability for the different entities within the system to collaborate with one another to produce a quality of care that … Continue reading
Tags: Business, health care, health care facilities, Hospitals, Long Term Care, patients
Hospitals Penalized by Medicare For Excess Readmissions
The 2010 Health Care Law, in an effort to force improvements in hospital quality, has authorized penalties for hospitals based on readmission rates. Starting in October 2012, more than 2,000 hospitals will be penalized by the government because many of … Continue reading
Tags: 2010 Health Care Law, Hospital Readmissions, Hospitals, Medicare
Is There Such Thing as “Too Much” Care?
Among the many dilemmas faced by physicians in today’s healthcare system, one of the trickiest is deciding how much care is enough – and how much is too much. Armed with ever evolving technology and treatment options, and without clear … Continue reading
Tags: healthcare accountability, Home Care, hospice, Hospitals, Long Term Care, Palliative care
Coordination of Care Offers Opportunities for Providers
Watching the Olympic opening ceremonies, it would be difficult to miss the fact that the UK chose this very public stage to celebrate, of all things, their healthcare system. It is hard to imagine such a thing happening on US … Continue reading
Tags: Business, health care, Home Care, Hospitals, Long Term Care, LTCAdministrator.com, nursing homes, research
Collaboration is the Key to Success for Long Term Care Facilities
Despite government threats of financial penalties, hospitals have made little headway in improving rates of preventable readmissions, according to recent Medicare data. More than 20% of Medicare patients return to the hospital within a month of discharge and despite policy … Continue reading
Tags: Business, health care, health care facilities, Hospitals, Long Term Care, LTCAdministrator.com, Medicare, nursing homes
