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Tele-Case Management Lets Iowa Heart Patients Go Home and Stay There
Top Seven Readmissions
Connecticut Hospital Infection Prevention Pledge
The CFO's Role in Determining the Business Impact and Capital Financing for Medical Technologi
What Wall Street Needs Now
Balance of Cost and Care Concerns
Genetic Counselors
Easing the Pain
Losing Coverage
On-Call Payments
SCMetrix takes benchmarking to new level
Be wary of the 'standard' benchmark
Types of hospital-associated infections
Why vendors are typically selected
Why vendors are typically not selected
What's a Board to Do?
Nielsen-Schneiderman Heuristics
Ergonomic resource books
Circumventing Technology
No Medicare Payments
Highlights from the CMS/Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstrat
5 Steps to Protect Patient Information
Additional Survey Data
Resources for "going green"
Unlocking Our Genetic Code
Boston Case Study
Floor Care Technician Training
Building in the Big City
Spec Sheet
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More resources on patient falls
Booming from coast to coast
Roomier and roomier rooms
Before the Implementation
In search of the right RFID-RTLS
A Record By Any Other Name
Privacy and Security Standards Get A Major Boost
Gauging Interest
Top Concerns
From purchasing to chemicals, truly environmentally conscious hospitals embrace significant change
Hospital waste disposal costs
Be a stickler for detail
Board Certification Looms
The Physician as Teacher
Five strategies to boost hand hygiene efforts
Hospitals add MRSA measures, but are they enough?
An experiment in standard implementation
Challenges in the health care supply chain
What other materials managers are saying...
LSC 2009 revision a work in progress
Major Challenges
Three Hospitals Go for the Green
Seeing Results
Help shape our mission
Take the next step
Arbitration: States Are Mandating it in Claims Disputes
Additional Business Watch for May 2007
Additional Calendar Dates for May, 2007
What’s in a Brand?
Resources for Better Governance Begins with Greater Board Diversitycare medicine
Programs and Resources
What Makes A Great Board Chair?
Care with Compassion
The Board’s Role
Resources for palliative care medicine
Case Study in Iowa
Health Literacy Resources
Safety First
Suites help hospital make room for families
Spec/Sheet
Following the Rules
How to Make a Board Retreat Pay Dividends
Downloading a free copy of the MR guidelines
Advice on Green Floor Care
Project saves time and money by using modular buildings
Spec/Sheet
Designing for EP system reliability
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Finding Furniture
Hospital buys furnishings direct to meet strict requirements
Money well spent
UMASS medical school gathers data to make case for increased funding
For more on capital planning, check out these resources
High-Class Problems
The Next Big Leap
Something in Common
A Trio of Initiatives
A Progress Report on Consumer-Directed Plans
Changing Behaviors
Calendar
Additional Calendar for April issue
The Rewards and the Risks of P4P
Participants
Still Booming
Survey Highlights
Smaller-Scale Options Enter the Market
U.S. Proton Therapy Centers
Calendar
It All Adds Up
Treacherous Legal Landscape
Stark Redo
Some Restrictions Apply
The Case for E-Prescribing
Louisiana’s Second Chance
‘Like Changing a Tire at 60 Miles Per Hour’Chance
Tips from Your Colleagues
Training Programs Focus on Health Care
Community Benefit and Tax Exemption
Suggested Key Steps for A Rational Pricing System
Leadership Styles
Engaging New Residents: One Town’s Story
10 Tips
A Few Words About Save Lives Now
Resources for Patient Safety in the ED
ASHRAE Builds Body of Knowledge
For More Information on ASHRAE Certification
What You Need to Know
Growing, Growing, Growing
10 Fastest-Growing Metro Areas
Urban Crawling
For Some Providers, the City is Sweet Indeed
Hospitalson the move
Beyond the Hospital Walls
Building Booms
Roomier and Roomier Rooms
Extreme Room Makeover
Who's Ready to Compete?
The Price is Right
An American in Bangkok
Quality Matters
The Long Referral Arm
Bringing ornamentation to functional design
Spec/Sheet
Power monitoring specification steps
Supplying health care where it’s needed
Ship shape processes
Visibly thinking out of the box
Five Barriers to Integration
How Geisinger Does It
Forging Ahead After an FTC Inquiry
Advice and Consent from the FTC
Unprepared
Avoiding care
A bigger piece of the pie
No-Fault Auto Insurance Saved by the Bell
Spotlight on Quality
Questions About Quality Question
Grassroots Change
Making a List, Checking It Twice
Typical Public Hospital Structures
Pros and Cons of Bringing in Outside Help
How to Communicate, How to Take Action
Trustee Leadership Network expands
Removing Turbulence in Carpet Cleaning
Greening Carpet Care
Maintaining operations during a major expansion
Spec/Sheet
Electrical Analogy to Circulating Systems
Bigger pumps may not be the answer
Flooring as wayfinding
Flooring as branding
The Designer as Data Detective
Handling a new design challenge
Key IT Projects for Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network
Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network's IT Implementation Timeline
Toolkit
Winning Attributes
Health care construction cost comparison
About the Health Facilities Management/ASHE 2008 Construction Survey
Calculating a patient’s body mass index
Assessing obesity patient needs at your organization
The New Medicaid Fraud Initiatives
Calculating Costs
Childrens Hospital Program’s Impressive Results
Why Hospitals are Starting Nurse Residency Programs
What synchronization can do for health care
The dangers of stockpiling
Collaborative efforts
Gifts, practices put on hold at some hospitals
At risk
Latin contract terms
Additional Calendar Dates for June, 2007
Could a USDA Loan Work For You?
Quality and Patient Safety: Governance at the Crossroads
A Nurse’s Heart
What is the Board’s Role in Quality?
The Board’s Role in Developing a Diverse Leadership Team
For Further Reading
2008 AHA Environmental Assessment
Standing Alone
10 Tips for Successful PACS Implementation
More on sustainable health care construction
Speakers to stress connection between ES and Other Departments
ASHES to kick off new health care certificate program
Good connections
Spec/Sheet
Comparison of engineering best practice with AIA Guidelines and ASHRAE Handbook
Advice on installing a desiccant-based HVAC system
Behave Yourself
A Q&A with Advocate’s CEO
Safety team
Four Simple Steps to Bridge the Divide
$50 million off a hospital’s bottom line? All for the greater good
More Lessons Learned from Katrina
Features and benefits of the SCMetrix benchmarking system
AHRMM-HFMA supply expense definition
How to elicit buy-in to cut costs
Allina moves closer to orthopedic implant savings goal
Community involvement is key to hospital project success
Spec/Sheet
Minor “Extras” Could Add Up to Major Costs
The Full Picture
For more on designing for the aging, check out these resources
ASHRAE ambient design conditions
Determining Your Clinical Success Factors
Construction Budgets
Facilities Projects
Construction Type
Specialty Hospital Construction Projects
Services/Department Projects
A team approach to project budgeting
Planning for disasters from the ground up
Spec/Sheet
Shedding some light on ambulatory care
Emerging health care applications for RFID
Project goes subterranean
Spec/Sheet
Facility Design
More about the study
Questions of adaptability
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Ethical Health: An Employee Survey
The Importance of Getting Boards on Board
How Can Hospitals Get Involved?
One State's Strategy
Medicare's List
National Quality Forum's List
Why Commissioning Matters: Improper settings KO facility power
Who Owns MRCs?
Growing Pains
Athletic Trainers Help Schoolkids, and Maybe Hospitals' Bottom Lines
Active Women, Distinct Needs
Why Primary Care Matters, Part I
Why Primary Care Matters, Part 2
MRIs & Mastectomies Linked — What does it mean?
CMS selects RAC contractors
Categories of work process wastes
A glossary of selected ‘lean’ process terms
Making Staff upwardly mobile
Training resources available
Minimize the Growing Pains of Expansions
Patient Safety paramount when building on an existing site
Lighting up the academic hospital
Carrying the academic facility's load
Lessons Learned
What About the Underinsured?
IT at a Crossroads
CIO Cynicism
Pain Behind the Progress
Survival Strategies for Today’s CIO
Important Lessons to Consider
Top Priority: Health care ranks as one of the top issues with voters
What’s the Same? What’s Different?
How Can Hospitals Get Involved?
Getting Boards on Board
6 Helpful Tips
Setting up a communications team
Get on track with the right resources
Instrument management system shopping tips
A national push for reform
A Board Committee's Job
Medicare's List
National Quality Forum's List
Taking the High Road to Quality
How to start a patient advisory group
The Board's Role
What can system boards do?
A helping hand in sight
Educational sessions and scholarships
Best practices for managing product substitutions
Parameters for dynamic-air-removal steam sterilization cycles
Features being incorporated...
Why hospitals say they are building now
How organizations are financing construction projects
Collaborative, Yet Independent
Do You Know These People?
They Want Your Help. Can You Give it to Them?
Two Projects to Make the OR Safer
Making an ‘Arranged’ Marriage work
Taking IT to the next level: Serving as a Test Site
Products that can help ensure proper wound management
Example of diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) that drive overall costs
Finding a nurse leader that's right for your board
Team speeds construction despite hugh project size
Spec/Sheet
LED Technology: Coming Soon to a Hospital Near You
A Comparative analysis
Northwest Community Hospital stresses patient support issues
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital takes hybrid approach to bariatrics
OSF St. Francis Medical Center Design reflects bariatric experience
Comparative Analysis Chart
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Impacts of OR Technology to Health care Facility Design
Engaging Physicians in Quality and Safety
At Home with the Board
Patients and their Families First
What’s Required?
Obesity a Growing Problem
Probing Questions around Quality and Safety
A Quality Primer
Elements of Performance:
Frank Talk, Financial Rigor
Progress on Managing Meds
Quality, Satisfaction Rise
Asthma Aids: What's New on the Horizon
Asthma Centers: Handling the Most Severe Cases
News Bytes
Help From the Feds?
Snapshot: Grady Health System
Core Competencies Descriptions
Full Steam Ahead Finally for Patient Navigators?
National Trends in Cancer
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Study
Infection Surveillance
Experts Weigh In On Quality
The Building Blocks Of HPOE
Getting Up To Speed
Resources
Why Trustees?
Rationing Reasoning
News Bytes
Trends in Cardiovascular
The Real Estate Double Whammy
Succession Planning: It's Time to Make the Time
Who's Next? Who Knows?
The Age Issue
How Other Nations Do It
Putting Research Into Practice
Putting Products to the Test
Bad Grooming
Committee Advice
Are Executive Committees Necessary?
Is this a Good Match?
Who's paying for reform in Massachusetts?
Who remains uninsured in Massachusetts?
Stimulus 101
A Health IT Reading List
American Presidents and Health Reform: A Chronolgy
Epidemic proportions
5 Recommendations
5 Things Medicare Won't Pay For
Alegent Health: On the Front Lines
Putting Employees First
Gender Roles
Pearls of Wisdom
Mayo Finds a Silver Lining
Novant's Big Opportunities for Savings
News Bytes
The Good, the Bad
Capitation, Part II
Rural Cooperatives Bring EHRs to Smallest Hospitals
HHS Launches HIT Crash Courses
Building the Medical Home
The 'Pressure Valve' Option
News Bytes
'Change the Care, Change the Payment, Change the Experience'
News Bytes
Attitude and Other Adjustments: Helping Physicians Fit In
A Market Opportunity for Hospitals
Newsbytes
'You Don't Have to Be a Kaiser' to Reduce Readmissions
Comparative Effectiveness
Mayo Finds a Silver Lining
Novants' Big Opportunities for Savings
You May Feel a Little Pain
News Bytes
Assessing Stand-Alone Viability: Key Questions for Consideration
Priority Conditions
How Your Hospital Can Get Involved
News Bytes
A Silver Lining for the Lucky Few
Paying for Costly Tests to Save on Costlier Treatments
Pushing Cancer Clinical Trials to a Whole New Level
News Bytes
NEWSBytes
INTERVIEW - David Blumenthal
Dude, Where's My Record?
Enlisting IT in MRSA War
Worker Immunization
Top Hospitals Rebound, Face Up to Reform
Getting Certified
Stroke Facts
NEWSBytes
Tighter Billing and Coding Process Controls