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Can Palliative Care Experts Improve End-of-Life Care?: Many hospitals don’t have palliative care experts, leading to potential issues with end-of-life care. This article explores how effective it may be to start utilizing these experts in a hospital setting. The post Can Palliative Care Experts Improve End-of-Life Care? first appeared on Michael D. Weinraub, P.C.. http://dlvr.it/TB3h7N

Healthcare in Minnesota is top notch and Greater Mankato is no exception to that rule. Mayo Clinic Health System's Mankato hospital was ranked as a top 50 hospital in the nation by Healthgrades. This follows great performance in 2022 and 2023 where we were ranked in the top 100. This is out of a ranking of over 4500 hospitals nationwide. When we look at those life-threatening issues, patients at Mayo Clinic Health Systems have better than expected survivability for all types of conditions including heart attacks/failure, sepsis, respiratory failure, and more. If your health is important to you, there is no place you should rather be than Southern Minnesota. https://lnkd.in/gnP5g-fP

Collaboration among our leaders in emergency services and hospitalist medicine is key to ensure consistent best practices across all of RWJBarnabas Health's hospitals. Learn how we’re standardizing care - from getting on the road to treatment, to the ED, onto the medical floor and transfers to specialized care - for our patients during one of their most vulnerable experiences in our latest issue of Healthy Together: https://ow.ly/6YlR50QtArJ #LetsBeHealthyTogether #EmergencyDepartment #EmergencyMedicine  

Regarding the Acute Hospital Care at Home model, Bipartisan Policy Center wants policymakers to: 1. increase participation in the program 2. gather more data on the quality of the model 3. ensure safety for participating caregivers and patients

Have you caught up on ECHO 125 yet? In our latest issue there's a fascinating article on the use of echo in assessing arterio-venous malformations written by the team at Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. Members can read it here: https://ow.ly/PbEG50R2XSb

When do departments need educators? Steven Adams, Central Sterile Manager at Sinai Hospital Lifebridge Health, provides insights on assessing your department's need for an educator and its effects on error rates, quality events, and internal auditing. #TheReprocessingReport: https://hubs.ly/Q02wfVjq0 #PureProcessing #SterileProcessing #SPD #MDR #CentralProcessing

When do departments need educators? Steven Adams, Central Sterile Manager at Sinai Hospital Lifebridge Health, provides insights on assessing your department's need for an educator and its effects on error rates, quality events, and internal auditing. #TheReprocessingReport: https://hubs.ly/Q02wRXs_0 #PureProcessing #SterileProcessing #SPD #MDR #CentralProcessing

The Odyssey Program at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (RBWH) aims to make a patient's journey from admission to discharge as short and smooth as possible. Grant Davies, head of the Odyssey Program and Director of Patient Flow Services at RBWH says the program is taking a whole hospital approach to patient care, where everyone has a role to play in working towards better meeting patients' needs. 🤗 Using process and cultural reform to improve the experience of patients and staff, the program intendeds to increase efficiency and better patient flow. 🚶♂️🚶♂️🚶♀️ 'We see our 6,500 staff as experts, and we are engaging with them, to find out what their experiences are, where the problems are, and what they think the solutions could be,' Grant says. Odyssey is working with a host of other internal and external RBWH stakeholders, such as the Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS), the virtual ward and Hospital in the Home team, and the discharge transit centre. 'It’s all of our responsibility, not just the clinical team, not just the administrative team, not food services, not protective services, and all the other support services at RBWH, it’s everybody’s responsibility to improve the care for our patients,' Gareth said. ℹ Source: Queensland Health Newsroom (2024)

In the realm of Emergency Medicine, quick decisions are paramount, yet the challenge intensifies without vital patient information. Introducing SAFR from San Diego Health Connect – a revolutionary service transforming the landscape. SAFR empowers paramedics with immediate access to comprehensive patient data at 9-1-1 scenes, seamlessly integrated into prehospital charts. But it doesn't end there; SAFR goes beyond by transmitting prehospital provider data to the Emergency Department in real-time and fostering automated quality assurance based on hospital outcomes. More than a service, SAFR signifies an Emergency Medicine breakthrough! Rely on SAFR for elevated patient care. Explore SAFR: https://zurl.co/LOV1 #SanDiegoHealthConnect #HIE #EmergencyMedicine #SAFR #HealthInnovation

Why do Hospitals need a PM&R Department? Dr.Aathithya Sp, Executive Director of SP Medifort Hospital, SP Wellfort Hospital and SP Fort Hospital, emphasizes the vital importance of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) as a standalone department within healthcare systems. Gain more insights on how PM&R significantly contributes to optimizing patient recovery post-treatment. #pmr #importance #patient #recovery #treatment #healthcare