An aging and retiring nurse workforce, burnout from the pandemic, and a rapidly greying Baby Boomer population have created a trifecta of staffing challenges across the healthcare space, but one nurse leader has some suggestions.

Rural residents face unique challenges to accessing healthcare such as far-flung geography, according to Dartmouth Health.

Compared to other hospitalized patients, patients with diabetes have longer lengths of stay and higher readmission rates.

Some highlights that might be useful as we close out survey year 2022 and embark upon the 2023 open season on the environment.

At HCPro, our goal is to provide you with the most up-to-date information on changes that affect your organization. After reviewing our product line, we have decided to discontinue Healthcare Life Safety Compliance (HLSC) and provide you with a more robust and user-friendly experience. Starting in January, we are upgrading your experience to the Accreditation & Quality Compliance Center ’s basic access level while we stop producing weekly content for HLSC.  

Last year, the healthcare industry hit a high of 45 million individuals affected by breach attacks, up from 34 million in 2020 and 14 million in 2018. That’s according to Critical Insight, which analyzes ​​breach data that healthcare organizations report to the Department of Health and Human Services.

Medical staffs have various documents that address how they self-govern themselves. All medical staffs are required to have medical staff bylaws. Frequently, the medical staff may also have rules and regulations, policies and procedures, or both. What is the difference between all these documents?

Workplace violence in healthcare is its own epidemic: one that survey data puts some hard numbers on. According to a 2021 survey of nurses by Hospital IQ, 90% of respondents were considering leaving the profession in the next year, and 72% said they were experiencing burnout long before the COVID-19 pandemic.

To address this, the Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) has published the Workplace Violence Prevention Handbook, a free resource detailing recommendations and strategies to help healthcare professionals across the board improve their organizations’ workplace violence prevention programming.

Violence against nurses is rising. Here are some steps about what's being done to combat workplace violence.