HealthCare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement articles from March 2003

HealthCare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement archives from March 2003

Health care organization shares the wealth with `benchmarking days'; site visits from other institutions yield two-way learning process.(Baptist Health Care Corp.)
March 1, 2003... Being a nationally recognized health care system certainly has its benefits, the most obvious being "front-of-mind" awareness and a favorable perception among potential patients. But Baptist Health Care Corp. of Pensacola, FL, recipient of...

Benchmarking beneficial for fiscal management: productivity opportunities can be identified.
March 1, 2003... When considering opportunities to improve financial performance, benchmarking may not immediately come to mind; but health care managers who have used benchmarking techniques to enhance the fiscal well-being of their institutions have found it...

It's back to school for system leaders: institute teaches leadership skills, cooperation.(University of Michigan Health System)
March 1, 2003... Health care leaders in Ann Arbor, MI, are returning to school so they can learn how to better care for a highly complex patient: the multisite, multispecialty academic medical center known as the U-M (University of Michigan) Health System. ...

Lower mortality, LOS seen with intensivists: mortality differences shown in ICUs, hospitalwide.(lengths of stay)
March 1, 2003... Closed intensive care units (ICUs)--those in which an intensivist is the patient s primary attending physician--or ICUs that require mandatory critical care consultation with an intensivist experience lower mortality rates and shorter lengths...

Ongoing studies cite clinical best practices: AAAHC IQI seeks to provide QI benchmarking.(Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care Institute for Quality Improvement )
March 1, 2003... The Wilmette, IL-based Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care Institute for Quality Improvement (AAAHC IQI) is seeking to provide quality improvement opportunities for health care professionals through a series of clinical...

Hospitals to share quality information.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... The American Hospital Association (AHA) in Chicago, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the Federation of American Hospitals, along with accrediting organizations, government agencies, and quality and consumer groups have begun a...

Hospitalists save money.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Patients of hospitalists appear to have shorter and less costly hospital stays than nonhospitalists' patients, according to a recent report in the Annals of Internal Medicine. However, these effects appeared only in the second year of use of...

Veterans Health Initiative announced.(online program for medical histories)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, in collaboration with the Office of Public Health and Environmental Hazards and the Employee Education System, has developed an on-line program that focuses on the special health concerns of veterans....