Location: Illinois Morgan Hunter HealthSearch has an immediate opportunity for an Interim Director of Med/Surg/Telemetry for a 53-bed unit with an ADC of 25. The successful candidate will have at least 5 years of management in a med/surg unit. Strong leadership is required as the CNO is looking for an assessment and feedback on department… Read more »
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Interim I.T. Director
Location: Oregon Morgan Hunter has an immediate opening for an Interim IT Director for a 170+bed non-profit community hospital in the Northwest. The Interim Director will be familiar with both EPIC and MEDITECH systems. The organization will begin conversion to EPIC in May. The Director will supervise a staff of approximately 20 FTEs. This interim… Read more »
Report: Staff engagement key to patient experience
January 17, 2014 | By Katie Sullivan, Fierce Healthcare Healthcare providers must encourage employee engagement if they want to improve patient care, according to a new report from the Point of Care Foundation in the United Kingdom. “Staff engagement is a function of good management and teamwork, staff satisfaction and staff health and wellbeing. These are, in… Read more »
Former Apple CEO backs virtual doctor’s office to create the ‘consumer era’ of medicine
January 22, 2014 3:01 PM, Christina Farr, Venture Beat For the past decade, former Apple chief executive John Sculley has been taking on the problem of reforming health care through new technologies. And now that the Obamacare rollout is in full effect, Sculley is betting on the Sunrise, Fla.-based MDLive to bring the practice of medicine into… Read more »
Connect with employees to drive hospital performance
January 15th, 2014, by Scott Kashman I have been getting ready for next month’s facility-specific orientation towards our hospital and health system goals. It is a way for our leadership team to connect with every employee, physician and volunteer. In turn, everyone ideally will understand their specific role in alignment with the goals of… Read more »
US Gets A D+ In National Report Card For Failure To Support Emergency Patients
By Robert Glatter, MD, Pharma & Healthcare, 1/19/2014 @ 10:42PM The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) released its Report Card last week measuring conditions and policies under which emergency care is delivered–unfortunately, the news is not so good. The nation earned a D+. In 2009, the last time ACEP’s report card was issued, America earned a C… Read more »
Telemedicine keeps seniors out of nursing homes
Published: Tuesday, 14 Jan 2014 | 8:00 AM ET, By: Elaine Pofeldt, Special to CNBC.com Many Americans live in fear that an elderly parent will fall at home and get hurt without anyone there to help. Thanks to a fast-growing field known as telemedicine, that worry may become a thing of the past. Lutheran SeniorLife,… Read more »
Study: Medicaid expansion increases ER use
January 2, 2014 | By Zack Budryk, Fierce Healthcare An increase in insured hospital patients due to Medicaid expansion led to a 40 percent rise in their visits to the emergency room, according to a study published in Science. Furthermore, based on a Medicaid lottery program in Oregon, enrollment in Medicaid increased the likelihood of emergency department… Read more »
4 Key Observations From the CMS Report on 2012 Health Spending
Written by Helen Adamopoulos (Twitter | Google+) | January 07, 2014, Becker’s Hospital Review In 2012, healthcare spending growth remained relatively slow for the fourth consecutive year, according to a Health Affairs study conducted by national health expenditure officials with CMS. National health spending in 2012 increased by 3.7 percent to $2.8 trillion, compared with… Read more »
Another Modest Rise for Health Costs
By ROBERT PEAR, New York Times, Published: January 6, 2014 WASHINGTON — National health spending grew slowly for the fourth consecutive year, increasing 3.7 percent in 2012 to $2.8 trillion, the federal government said Monday. But officials disagreed over whether the Affordable Care Act or lingering effects of the recession were primarily responsible for the… Read more »