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Health Governance Report

Issue 12, December 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Evaluate plans by taking a 10-step approach

  Members of a healthcare facility's medical staff, real estate investment trusts, equipment vendors...

• Leader and physician: Strategies for the new relationship

  The hospital CEO's handbook on physician relations used to be relatively straightforward. All CEOs...

• Clearing up some common Stark misconceptions

  Confusion about the Stark antireferral law and the anti-kickback statute can prevent hospitals from...

• Start small before taking on big pay-for-performance projects

  Quality improvement (QI) directors hoping to win support for ambitious pay-for-performance (P4P...

Issue 11, November 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Consumer-driven plans create marketing opportunities for healthcare facilities

  The consumer-driven healthcare movement and the rising number of health savings accounts (HSA) are...

• Hospitals need policy when responding to competency issues

  Most hospitals eventually encounter a situation in which a physician with staff privileges appears...

• Deploying new technology: Failure or success?

  On a regular basis, healthcare administrators feel forced to buy the latest expensive technology...

Issue 10, October 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Boards at top performing hospitals focus on quality

  The top performing hospitals in the country have boards of directors that don't confine quality to...

• Standardized survey helps gauge service and improve quality

  Under the direction of a pilot government initiative, hospitals across the country are surveying...

• Ongoing audits an important part of the compliance process

  Although having the appropriate policies and procedures in place to comply with the Health...

• Use data to evaluate physicians in JCAHO's competencies

  As payers move toward pay for performance and consumers begin to demand higher-quality care, the...

Issue 9, September 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Maintaining a valid, effective hospital hotline

  Providing a hotline for employees to report fraudulent practices and other potential violations to...

• The strategic impact of revised DRG payments

  With the expected reconfiguration of diagnosis-related groups (DRG) by the CMS, the healthcare...

• Take careful consideration before diving into a RHIO

  If a hospital is not already involved in a regional health information organization (RHIO) effort...

Issue 8, August 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Hospitals use experimental nursing teams to improve throughput, satisfaction

  Two experimental pilot programs prove that implementing an admission and discharge team can help...

• Clearing up common misconceptions about the HCQIA

  Even after 20 years, the federal Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA) is a source of...

Issue 7, July 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Fair compensation important to the bottom line

  Employee compensation accounts for roughly half of most hospitals' expenses, and paying employees...

• Strategies to help combat a nursing staff shortage

  If your hospital is not already dealing with problems caused by a nursing shortage, chances are it...

• Five more steps to organize a smooth CPOE transition

  Editor's note: This article is the second in a two-part series. Last month, we brought you the...

Issue 6, June 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Building leadership infrastructure key to facing healthcare industry challenges

  Hospitals today face many challenges, so they should leave no opportunity for additional advantage...

• IOM wants quality improvement organizations to prove technical expertise

  Recent reports that recommend modifying quality improvement organizations' (QIO) role in Medicare...

Issue 5, May 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Use research and teamwork to improve patient flow

  Problems with patient flow can come back to haunt hospital leaders in many ways-from patient...

• Happy physicians leads to improved satisfaction ratings and care

  Focusing on your healthcare organization's physician satisfaction can boost patient satisfaction...

Issue 4, April 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Debate continues on medical staff physicians and mandatory board certification

  Although the reasons and arguments might differ, the question of whether hospitals should require...

• Federal government encourages hospitals to prepare for avian flu pandemic

  Epidemiologists worldwide are carefully tracking flu cases to head off what could be a deadly avian...

Issue 3, March 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Privileging requests for new technologies challenge hospital executives

  New technology proliferates faster each day. As a result, physician requests to use new devices or...

• JCAHO heralds evidence-based credentialing and privileging

  Evidence-based medicine has become the norm in healthcare. Now, in its proposed 2007 standards for...

• Get senior leaders on board for SCIP

  As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) prepares to unveil the Surgical Care...

Issue 2, February 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Organize board communications with a collaborative extranet

  Many hospital board members are burdened by floods of messages, documents, minutes, and...

• One-year countdown is on for NIMS

  It’s time to learn the difference between NIMS and HEICS If you’re confused about...

• Florida hospitals share lessons learned from hurricanes

  Six steps to improve your hospital’s disaster preparedness plan The Florida Hospital...

Issue 1, January 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Hospital receives immunity from disruptive physicians’ claims

  A Pennsylvania hospital that revoked the privileges of a physician because of disruptive behavior...

• Hospital trustees must commit to quality improvement ’spread’

  "Spread" improvement can affect your hospital’s adaptation of quality improvement (QI...

• Hospitals opt for disease-specific certification

  Approval gives organizations marketing edge With the increased public focus on healthcare...

Issue 1, June 2, 2006

• Kaiser Permanente to transfer transplant patients

  Kaiser Permanente plans to transfer 100 kidney care patients per week by mid-June, until all 2,000...