Industry Spotlight: Moab Healthcare
Moab Healthcare โ Redefining Interim-to-Perm Staffing Solutions for the OR and Sterile Processing Departments Moab Healthcare understands the challenges you face when you're trying to find interim resources for your department. They are an OR and SPD focused resource company, providing Interim Management Services, Training, Consulting, Outsourcing and Staffing. They…
Understanding the Millennial nurse manager
Editor's Note The development and retention of Millennial nurse managers is shaped by understanding the support variables that are important to them, this study finds. Interviews of a national sample of 25 Millennial nurse managers found they have a unique perspective on role expectations and support. Seven themes emerged: coming…
Joint Commission issues Quick Safety on combating nurse burnout
Editor's Note The Joint Commission on July 15 issued โQuick Safety 50 Developing resilience to combat nurse burnout.โ Research indicates that resilience does more than prevent burnout, it fosters resources to combat workplace challenges. Resilience has several components, including: The ability to adapt in the face of adversity or significant…
FDA: Class I recall of HamiltonโG5 Ventilators
Editor's Note The Food & Drug Administration on July 12 identified the recall by Hamilton Medical AG (Bonaduz, Switzerland) of its Hamilton-G5 Ventilators as Class I, the most serious. The recall was initiated because of a software failure that stops the ventilators after displaying an error message, leaving patients to…
Study: Practice of overlapping colorectal surgical procedures is safe
Editor's Note In this study, overlapping surgery in a tertiary care colorectal surgery practice was found to be safe and not linked to adverse patient outcomes. Of 1,270 patients having inpatient colorectal surgery at the Mayo Clinic, between 2012 and 2015, overlapping surgery occurred in 576 patients. Overall adverse events…
House to vote on repeal of ACAโs tax on high-cost insurance plans
Editor's Note House Leaders will vote the week of July 15 on a measure to repeal the Affordable Care Actโs 40% tax on high-cost healthcare insurance plans, the July 12 Bloomberg Tax reports. The measure is expected to have wide bipartisan support. Democrat Rep Joe Courtney of Connecticut is the…
Disadvantaged neighborhoods linked to higher readmission rates
Editor's Note Residing in a disadvantaged neighborhood in Maryland and being discharged from a hospital serving a large proportion of disadvantaged neighborhoods were independently associated with increased risk of readmission in this study. 2015 data from Maryland hospitals showed a 14.1% 30-day readmission rate for patients living in neighborhoods in…
Amazonโs healthcare distribution system losing momentum
Editor's Note Though hospitals still expect to increase their supply purchases from Amazon in the next 3 years, the percentage of respondents to a UBS Group survey who are negotiating sourcing agreements with the retailer has declined from 11% in 2018 to 7% in 2019, the July 8 Bloomberg News…
CMS penalty program not linked to hospital safety improvements
Editor's Note The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) hospital penalization in the Hospital Acquired Condition Reduction Program (HACRP) was not associated with significant changes in rates of hospital acquired conditions (HACs), 30-day readmissions, or 30-day mortality and does not appear to drive meaningful clinical improvements, this study finds.…
HHS forms group to streamline quality programs
Editor's Note The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on July 9 that it has formed a summit of key industry stakeholders and government leaders to provide insight as the Trump administration seeks to streamline, improve, and align measures used across federal healthcare quality programs. The Quality Summit,…