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CDC: Cancer Screening Rates Fall Short of Goals |
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| By Haydn Bush | February 03, 2012 |
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Reducing Hospital Readmissions |
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| By Patricia Hines, R.N., and Bonnie Barndt-Maglio, R.N. | February 02, 2012 |
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| By Rick Foster, M.D. | February 01, 2012 |
| Rick Foster, M.D. , senior vice president of quality and patient safety for the South Carolina Hospital Association, discusses how his state's harm reporting system helps hospitals identify adverse events, engage clinicians and communicate with patients and their families. Running Time: 3:18 | |
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| By Karen Koch | January 30, 2012 |
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North Mississippi Medical Center's Karen Koch shares how her hospital's Baldrige journey helped achieve improved patient outcomes, high patient satisfaction and lower costs in a faster, more comprehensive and more integrated way. Running Time: 3:14. |
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Screening rates for breast, cervical and colorectal cancers fall short of national objectives developed by the government's Healthy People 2020 initiative, a new report from the CDC finds. The report also discovered racial and ethnic disparities in screening rates.
CMS is preparing to penalize hospitals with higher than expected 30-day readmission rates, and commercial payers may soon follow suit. To meet the challenge, hospitals must develop comprehensive strategies for transitioning patients to post-hospital care.
Creating a Harm-Free Culture