TO TREAT OR CURE THEM YOU MUST KEEP THEM SAFE
TO TREAT OR CURE THEM YOU MUST KEEP THEM SAFE
As of today, only the Federal Healthcare Sector, about 10% of healthcare capacity in the US, is mandated to prepare for All-Hazards events, while the remaining 90% private sector has been expected to prepare voluntarily to meet their roles and responsibilities....
The Life You Save Could be Your Own, or that of Your Loved Ones This is a summary points made in our 2010 book "UNREADY: TO ERR IS HUMAN: The other Neglected Side of Hospital Safety and Security". Existing national efforts to protect patients from unnecessary...
This is the third in a series of posts concerning hospital rankings and comments on how we feel they could be more beneficial to patients while simultaneously reflecting a better view of reality. First, Do No Harm Without being overly nostalgic, we remember a time...
These interactive chart were created using the end of 2Q 2013 CMS Database.  The show the volume of procedures by category (DRG) and  State down to the hospital level. Moving through the tabs left to right, drill down on data by selecting state...
There appears to be a thriving cottage industry in rating hospitals and healthcare facilities as to which is “Best of Breed†or who is within the “Top XXXâ€. Because this seems to influence the selection by patients, we wanted to dig a little deeper into...
It is an unfortunate fact many of us will have to face; a time when supervised care of elderly parents and other relatives becomes necessary and a choice has to be made about where they should move to receive Long Term Care. As discussed in our Nursing Home Report...
World Bank Health Statistics This is the interactive section; For the full analysis, go here Learn About Tableau
Sentinel Events Definition of a Sentinel Event according to The Joint Commission (TJC): “A sentinel event is an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk thereof. Serious...
Based on good responses and comments on LinkedIn and our site, we went back to our 2006 contributions to the Journal of Healthcare Risk Management, Monograph, Volume 26, Issue 2 to review those comments relative to the Religion and the end of Life. Although, there was...
The issue of “End of Life Decisions†and when and who makes those existential calls are and have been the subject of considerable controversy, and which I have watched over many years. In 2006, I was a participant in an American Society...
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