Info exchange helps prepare hospitals for taxing patient surges
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, October 1, 2019
This is an excerpt from a member only article. To read the article in its entirety, please login or subscribe to Healthcare Life Safety Compliance.
By John Palmer
In today’s environment of mass shootings and other mass casualty incidents (MCI), hospitals need to be prepared to deal with a surge of patients at a moment’s notice.
According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the term medical surge refers to a hospital’s ability to provide “adequate medical evaluation and care during events that exceed the limits of the normal infrastructure of an affected community. It encompasses the ability of healthcare organizations to survive a hazard impact and maintain or rapidly recover operations that were compromised.” Additionally, “[t]he surge requirements may extend beyond direct patient care to include such tasks as extensive laboratory studies or epidemiological investigations.”
This is an excerpt from a member only article. To read the article in its entirety, please login or subscribe to Healthcare Life Safety Compliance.
Related Products
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- CMS seeks comment on quality measures
- Don't forget the three checks in medication administration
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- What to include on the incident report
- Q&A: Primary, principal, and secondary diagnoses
- Code diagnoses and outpatient treatment for PTSD
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- Understanding nursing roles in quality improvement
- Complications from immobility by body system
- E-mailed
-
- Patient care orders/protocols: What do the regulations say?
- The five key elements of a good orientation program
- Refine the terms: Understand unbilled accounts and DNFB
- Q&A: Code assignment for hospital acquired/healthcare associated conditions
- CMS final rule clarifies that medical staff can extend beyond physicians
- Clinical Corner: Revisiting respiratory failure
- Searched