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Best Practices: Building better supports for dementia

CareMore, a Medicare Advantage plan headquartered in Cerritos, Calif., has seen significant safety gains and fewer ER visits with its team-based Brain Health program for dementia patients and their caregivers.

Giving newborns distinct names cuts errors

Dr. Jason Adelman had long suspected that the naming system most hospitals use to temporarily identify newborns in the neonatal intensive-care unit could lead to confusion and wrong-patient errors. A new naming system showed how right he was.

Helping staff who are traumatized by errors

After a medical error, hospital employees may suffer from anxiety, shame and depression. Such incidents can demoralize entire departments, and hospitals need a strategy for addressing them.

Best Practices: How hospitals can waste less food

In 2012, roughly 12% of the food that the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics prepared went into the garbage. Faced with that sobering statistic—and a scathing article in a local newspaper about food waste at the hospital—the health system's leaders decided to make serious changes.

Best Practices: How Lean management can slash hospital construction costs

When the leaders of Akron (Ohio) Children's Hospital faced a pressing question as they began planning a new facility to house their neonatal intensive-care unit, outpatient surgery and other growing service lines, they turned to Lean Six Sigma methods for aid in their decision-making.

Hospitals train staff to spot victims of human trafficking

Experts who have studied human trafficking say a victim's most promising lifeline could be a healthcare provider. That's why a number of hospitals and health systems around the country have launched training programs for their staff on how to identify and treat trafficking victims.

Best Practices: Safety first when dogs visit patients

For a hospitalized patient, a visit from a furry companion can raise flagging spirits, reduce anxiety and depression, improve cooperation with treatment, and even lessen pain.

Best Practices: Curbing healthcare drug theft

After several highly publicized cases of theft of controlled substances by healthcare workers in Minnesota, state health department officials approached the state hospital association with a plan. While there are no precise statistics about the prevalence of drug theft in healthcare facilities, experts agree it's a pervasive problem.

Hospitals rethink how to train trustees

Some hospital leaders think new trustees without healthcare experience need about three years to gain confidence and competence in their role. But Dr. John Combes believes that thinking is dangerously out of date.

System helps patients share in treatment decisions

Shared decisionmaking is gaining traction as research points to its benefits and patients demand a greater role in their care. But experts say there are significant obstacles slowing adoption.

VA hospital reduces worker injuries from moving patients

Despite ample research showing the benefits of using mechanical patient-handling equipment such as overhead lifts, workers at many hospitals and nursing homes still are hoisting and moving patients the old-fashioned way. But that isn't true at the VA Loma Linda (Calif.) Healthcare System.

Best Practices: Hospital reduces delirium in elderly patients

Throughout the 1990s, Dr. Fred Rubin tried a variety of strategies to prevent elderly patients from experiencing the sudden onset of stress and confusion known as delirium, which often occurs during a hospital stay. Then in 1999, Rubin saw a New England Journal of Medicine article touting the benefits of the Hospital Elder Life Program, or HELP.

Best Practices: Using volunteers to improve discharges

New York Methodist Hospital was searching for effective ways to curb its stubbornly high rates of preventable hospital readmissions, so leaders there decided to test whether volunteers also could be used to improve the discharge process.

Hospital benefits from dedicated executive pay committee

For more than a decade, Beebe Healthcare, a 155-bed not-for-profit hospital in Lewes, Del., assigned executive compensation duties to the hospital board's executive committee. But more than a year ago, at the urging of a consultant, Beebe decided to make a change.

Lahey diverts less-complex patients out of its teaching hospital

Lahey Health, an integrated system covering northeastern Massachusetts, routes most patients to its community hospitals and reserves its tertiary academic medical center for the most complex cases, an approach many experts say is key to controlling costs.

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