A Look at ‘Quiet Quitting’ in Hospitals
‘Quiet quitting’ is a neologism for the phenomenon where workers perform their stated responsibilities without the pressure to “go above and beyond.” A new Becker’s Hospital Review discusses how quiet quitting presents in hospital settings and ways to address worker burnout
Kaiser Permanente Plans Expansions Totalling $1.7B
[[:en:User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] at the English-language Wikipedia Kaiser Permanente, based out of California, has announced major construction projects in the Riverside, [...]
Webinar: Confronting Care Inequities in Hospital Medicine
Although awareness of health disparities among marginalized racial and ethnic groups has grown in recent years, simply understanding the problem does not fix it. In a new webinar hosted by Becker’s Hospital Review, Greg Johnson, MD, SFHM, CEO of hospital medicine and chief diversity officer at Sound Physicians, will lay out actionable methods to promote health equity.
High Tolerance for Medical Errors in Hospital Settings
Despite efforts like the Hospital-Acquired Conditions Reduction Program, the rate of hospital-acquired conditions in US hospitals is still startlingly high. In a new interview, Becker’s Hospital Review spoke with Patricia McGaffin, RN, VP of safety programs at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement about the underlying causes of medical mistakes. The first is what can be described as a “whack-a-mole” approach to safety.
First Half of 2022 Sees 62 US Hospital CEO Exits
A recent report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas shows sixty-two CEOs of various hospital systems in the US stepped down this year. This is around 50% higher than the forty-two that left their role by this time last year. This jump exceeds the percent increase in CEO exits in all industries, which sits at 20%.
Webinar: How Baylor Scott & White Health Successfully Integrated Medical Devices Systemwide – July 25th
Data standardization is across medical device types and manufactures is exceedingly uncommon and acts as a barrier to capturing and integrating data to improve quality of care. Baylor, Scott, and White Health tackled this problem by bringing together an interdisciplinary group of staff and implementing a scalable system enterprise-wide. Join Lisa Kilgore and Nathan Winn from Baylor and Scott in a webinar this Monday, July 25th, to learn more.
Healthcare Industry is #1 for Job Cuts in 2022
A new job report shows that healthcare tops the charts for the most job cuts in 2022. The report, produced [...]
NHS England Announces Plan to Fight Long Waiting Lists with Travel Plan
At the beginning of the year, around 22,500 people in England had a wait time of 2 years or longer [...]
Supreme Court Issues Unanimous Decision in 340B Case in Favor of Hospitals
The US Supreme Court has issued its highly-anticipated decision in the Medicare 340B case, ruling unanimously in favor of hospitals. [...]
Politico: CMS Wasn’t Built for a Pandemic
Despite mandating infection-control measures in hospitals, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) haven’t been able to enforce them. [...]
A Quarter of Medicare Recipients Experience Harm During Hospitalization
A newly released report from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finds that 25% of Medicare [...]
The Downsides of Healthcare Consolidation
Over the past few decades, many healthcare organizations have consolidated to cut the labor costs incurred by their steadily growing [...]
Webinar: (May 3rd): Communication Technology Improves Care Operations and Culture at Medical Center
Digitization is often viewed as an all or nothing venture, with many organizations putting off the change out of fear [...]
Health Affairs Pathways Podcast: The History of Mental Health Policy
The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 promised to shift in-patient mental healthcare from state-run institutions to local care centers [...]
US Hospitals Prepare for Russian Cyberattacks
As the Russian economy buckles under the wake of harsh international sanctions, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) [...]
NEMJ Study: Patient Safety Backslides During COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has reversed improvements in hospital patient safety from previous years, as reported by an article published in [...]
2022 in Healthcare: 3 Trends for Hospitals
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reported that 1 in 4 hospitals experienced critical staff shortages in [...]
Over 700 Hospitals Facing Penalties from HAC Reduction Program
764 hospitals across the US will face penalties in 2022 due to not meeting value-based standards set by Medicare’s Hospital-Acquired [...]
4 Trends to Watch in 2022 for Payers and Providers
As the pandemic drags into its third year, COVID-19 is still shaping the state of the healthcare industry. In a [...]
Hospitals and Outpatient Care Are the Primary Drivers of Sky-high US Healthcare Costs
Although drug prices are at the forefront of many voters’ minds, they are not actually the main reason the U.S. [...]
