Briefings on Accreditation & Quality For one hospital, a poor Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade rating in 2014 became a launching pad for improved quality and safety. “When we got a ‘D’ from Leapfrog, that was our wake-up call. We had done good patient safety work before, but it wasn’t the fanatic level that we have now,” says Leigh Hamby, MD, MHA, executive vice president and chief medical officer at Piedmont Healthcare, an integrated healthcare system with 11 hospitals and almost 100 physician and specialist offices throughout Atlanta and North Georgia.  Most sepsis-associated deaths are linked to other underlying causes and are not preventable with better sepsis care alone, indicates recently published research.
Webinar Rebroadcast Webinar Rebroadcast Presented on: Thursday, May 23, 2019, 1:00-4:00 p.m. Eastern
Summary: In this three-hour virtual workshop, learn about the hot spots in hospital compliance in such areas as ligature risk, high-level disinfection and sterilization, titration and therapeutic duplication, sterile compounding and USP 797, management of dialysis programs (including infection control), training and competencies, and common problems within the environment of care and life safety. \
Learn more: https://hcmarketplace.com/targeting-hot-spots-052319
News Headlines March 12, 2019
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