Search results for "Cover Story"
Perfecting post-acute care
Hospitalists take bigger role in postdischarge decisions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/04/post-acute-care.htm
15 Apr 2016
CMS quality demo pays dividends for hospitals, but not always financially
Results from the first three years of the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) suggest that while bonuses were something to shoot for, they weren't the primary motivators for most participants. Instead, some hospitals viewed their participation as an opportunity to implement a tracking system, identify areas for improvement and see how they stacked up against other hospitals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/09/cover-story.htm
15 Sep 2007
Tweaking rapid response teams
Automation, new team members improving outcomes at some hospitals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/09/rapid-response-teams.htm
15 Sep 2015
Open records come to the hospital
Hospitalists explore increasing inpatient access to medical records.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/08/open-records.htm
15 Aug 2015
Balancing act: How ACGME work-hour limits are changing hospital medicine
When the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education decided in 2003 to limit residents' work to 80 hours per week, opponents said that the change would be a disaster for hospital medicine. But while the ruling has presented staffing challenges, patients have not suffered and hospitalists are in higher demand than ever on the job market.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/10/cover-story.htm
15 Oct 2007
Medicare takes aim at hospital-acquired conditions
Medicare's recent announcement that it will stop paying for some hospital-acquired conditions has hospitals ramping up their quality improvement efforts, and some experts predict that hospitalists are likely to find themselves center stage.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/11/cover-story.htm
15 Nov 2007
Wanted: Small-town hospitalists
Hospitalists can bring some relief to short-staffed rural areas by taking over inpatient care. But as more rural communities consider implementing hospitalist programs, they find themselves faced with the same recruitment challenge that helped create the problem: a rural venue.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/12/cover-story.htm
15 Dec 2007
Changes afoot at physician-owned specialty hospitals
When Oklahoma Heart Hospital opened in August 2002 in Oklahoma City, it didn't take long for nearby community hospital Baptist Medical Center to realize it needed to make some changes to offset the loss of patients. But new government and state regulations will mean changes in the specialty hospital workplace in the coming months and years.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/08/cover-story.htm
15 Aug 2007
Will small hospitals disappear?
Facilities take new approaches to survive familiar challenges.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/12/small-hospitals.htm
15 Dec 2015
No halfway measures
Partial DNRs may be attractive to patients, but they may cause more problems than they solve.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/06/coverstory.htm
15 Jun 2011