Coordinating Writer

Improving Patient Safety and Quality of Care

Author:: Shm Benchmarks Committee; Project Leaders; Mary Pak, MD; Coordinating Writer; Phyllis Hanlon

Patient safety and improved quality of care have become priority issues in the American healthcare system.

Author:: Shm Benchmarks Committee; Project Leader; Patrick Cawley, MD; Coordinating Writer; Phyllis Hanlon

According to data from the American Hospital Association (1), in 1985, the United States had 5732 operational community hospitals; by 2002, the...

Author:: Shm Benchmarks Committee; Project Leader; Saeed Syed, MD; Coordinating Writer; Phyllis Hanlon

Today’s hospitals must address a variety of challenges stemming from the expectation to provide more services and better quality with fewer...

Author:: Shm Benchmarks Committee; Project Leader; Stacy Goldsholl, MD; Coordinating Writer; Phyllis Hanlon

In 1994, Jack Rosenbloom was admitted to an Indiana hospital after suffering a serious heart attack. While in the critical care unit (CCU) of the...

Author:: Shm Benchmarks Committee; Project Leader; Mary Pak, MD And Kathleen Kerr; Coordinating Writer; Phyllis Hanlon

When Robert Lee, MD, an internist affiliated with Iowa Health Physicians, a multi-specialty group in Des Moines, was called to the hospital to see...

Author:: Shm Benchmarks Committee; Project Leaders; Burke T. Kealey, MD And Larry Vidrine, MD; Coordinating Writer; Phyllis Hanlon

Hospitals face a range of critical issues and need members of their medical staff to assume a role in addressing them.

In the 1970s and 1980s, indigent patients experienced problems at hospital Emergency Departments (EDs) around the country. They were refused care...