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Publications and source records attributed to Jan Greene.
While your finance committee may handle the most complicated issues, everyone on the board needs a basic understanding of hospital finance in order to be responsible and accountable to the hospital's stakeholders. The consequences of financial ignorance or carelessness can be disastrous.
This year's winners of the American Hospital Association's Circle of Life Awards exemplify the expanding nature of palliative care. They are finding creative ways to offer solace and pain relief not just at the end of life, but also earlier in the course of a life-threatening illness. And they're looking beyond the traditional hospice borders.
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New technology on the horizon will dramatically change the way health care is delivered. Hospitals must start planning now for the strategic issues they will face in the not-too-distant future.
The magnet hospital designation is a way of showing that an organization is a preferred place for nurses to work. How do you know whether the status is worth the expense and effort, and what does the application process entail?
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In California, one hospital decided the time was right to inoculate staff volunteers with the smallpox vaccine. Weighing the same pros and cons--civic responsibility, health risk, cost and reluctance of staff--other hospitals opted out of inoculations, at least for now. What led these organizations to such divergent decisions?
The debate continues over whether hospitals will vaccinate their clinicians for smallpox. Some hospitals see the vaccination program as part of their mission, while others are taking a wait-and-see attitude.
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A top priority for patients, physicians and staff at Evergreen Hospital Medical Center in Kirkland, Wash., was upgrading their public hospital's information technology system. The result: a system that links all hospital functions, caregivers and staff.
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