Young Adult Cancer Treatment Programs Fill Need
New data-driven programs address lagging survival rates for some cancers in patients 15–39.
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ARTICLES
Too Old For A Children's Hospital? How and Where to Treat Young Adults
As health care advances allow more young patients to live well into adulthood, pediatric and adult facilities are teaming up to decide who should be treated where.
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Geriatrics
Health Systems to Consider Expediting Geriatric Trauma Care
As baby boomers grow older, hospitals are seeing increased geriatric patients in trauma care centers. Some hospitals are implementing geriatric-specific trauma programs to address this.
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Rural hospitals
You Got the Docs, Now Keep Them!
5 strategies for rural hospitals to help retain their hard-won physicians
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Discharge
New Way to Staff a Hospital
To thrive in a quickly changing health care system, leaders rethink how and where they deploy their workforce
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Governance
Forging better CEO-trustee bonds
At public hospitals, boards pose unique challenges for top executives
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Please doc, stay
Give docs a reason to set up shop
Your job isn't over after recruiting a physician; retention is just as important and as hard
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Staffing issues
Where Are the Specialists?
Hospitals find it more difficult to recruit certain disciplines, try a variety of strategies to fill the gaps
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Patient care
Does Your Patient Really Understand?
Cut jargon, ask direct questions, simplify signage among the ways to aid communication — and care.
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Staffing
Will You Be Ready if Nurses Strike?
Advanced planning will ensure that patient care will not be disrupted
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Clinical Care
Teaching Nurses to Speak Up, with No Guff from Docs
Establishing specific criteria to sound the rapid- response alarm can help bolster the resolve of a nurse working alone late at night
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Clinical Care
Is Your Rapid-Response Team on the Right Track?
Critics call them an ineffective Band-Aid; advocates say the teams save lives if they are well thought out
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