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New Framework for Quality Improvement
June 19, 2016
Improving healthcare means taking an efficacious intervention from one setting and effectively implementing it somewhere else. [caption id="attachment_15449" align="alignright" width="300"] Image Credit: Shuttershock.com[/caption] “It is this key element of adapting what works to new settings
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Applying Military Principles to HM Leadership
June 19, 2016
Hospitalists are more than doctors—they are also leaders in their organizations, which is why a new book by retired Army Lieutenant General Mark Hertling is relevant to what they do every day.
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Recognizing Contributions Physician Personalities Make to the Greater Good
June 18, 2016
My family and I recently took a spring break trip out west to see a few national parks. During the trip, we stayed on a family ranch in Utah.
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Does U.S. Healthcare Need More Diverse Leadership?
June 9, 2016
Throughout its history, the United States has been a nation of immigrants. From the early colonial settlements to the mid-20th century, most immigrants came from Western European countries.
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Public Opinion about Healthcare Reform Becomes More Positive
May 29, 2016
The Affordable Care Act has been law for six years, and during that time, 20 million uninsured nonelderly Americans have been able to acquire health insurance.
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Tips for Improving Early Discharge Rates
May 29, 2016
Discharging patients before noon has many advantages: It creates open beds to accommodate the surge in admissions in the afternoon and helps minimize the bottleneck in system-wide patient flow, says Ragu P.
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Opinion
Things Hospitalists Want Hospital Administrators to Know
May 24, 2016
I think it is really cool that this publication has a series of articles on “What Cardiologists [or infection disease specialists, nephrologists, etc.] Want Hospitalists to Know.” I’m always interested to see which clinical topics made the list and which I’m already reasonably familiar with versus k
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New Community-Based Palliative Care Certification to Launch
May 22, 2016
The industry’s first certification for home health and hospices that provide top-caliber community-based palliative care services in the patient’s place of residence is being launched by The Joint Commission. [caption id="attachment_15024" align="alignright" width="300"] Image Credit: Shuttershoc
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Early Follow-up Can Reduce Readmission Rates
May 22, 2016
Heart failure patients who had early follow-up (within seven days of discharge) with general medicine or cardiology providers had a lower risk of being readmitted to the hospital within 30 days, according to a study from Kaiser Permanente published in the journal Medical Care. “We found that foll
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Dr. Hospitalist: Improper, Aggressive Billing Raises Ethical, Legal Concerns
May 21, 2016
Dear Dr. Hospitalist: I am a seasoned hospitalist at a large academic medical center in the Northeast and have recently become more bothered by how our group is being coerced to aggressively bill for our services.
