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- Health Watch Usa To Hold Major Conference On Health-care Transparency And Patient Safety Friday, Nov. 13 In Lexington
Health Watch USA will hold its annual conference, "Healthcare Transparency & Patient Safety," Nov. 13 at the Four-Points Sheraton in Lexington, Kentucky. The Somerset-based organization tries to promote health care value, transparency, quality and...
- Health Watch Usa Hosts Chief Medical Director Of Center For Medicare And Medicaid Services In Lexington And Online July 31
Dr. Patrick Conway, chief medical director of the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will be presenting to Kentucky-based Health Watch USA on July 31 at 5 p.m., and with a few clicks on the computer, you can attend virtually. Conway will...
- Calls For Hospitals To Reveal More About Errors, Infections Are Getting Louder; Feds Plan More Data, But Hospitals Fight State Rules
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The stories are hard to hear. A little girl is taken to the hospital after she turns on the water and burns herself in the bathtub. After being admitted, her mother notices she looks dehydrated but...
- Kentucky Needs System To Track Hospital Infections, Doctor Says
Kentucky is in need of a single, accurate system that tracks hospital-acquired infections in order to improve health care and receive state and federal funding, an op-ed piece in The Courier-Journal contends. (Hospitals call these "healthcare-associated...
- Two Conferences This Summer Will Focus On Children's Health
The 2011 Coordinated School Health Institute conference is set for June 29 in Lexington. The conference will focus on the roles community partners and families play in creating healthy places to learn and work. The Growing Healthy Kids in Kentucky conference...
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At Nov. 11 conference in Lexington, Health Watch USA will focus on health-care transparency, patient advocacy
Health-care transparency and patient advocacy will be the focus at the 2011 Health Watch USA 2011 conference Nov. 11 in Lexington. Topics will include hospital-acquired infections and the importance of reporting them; the impact of transparency on an institution; barriers in the control of healthcare-acquired infections; and principles of transformational leadership will be among the topics discussed.
Speakers include Frances Griffin, a faculty member at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, will be one of the many conference speakers and will speak about the IHI global trigger tool. Dr. Keith Sinclair, medical director at Bluegrass Oakwood in Somerset, will speak of how transparency has almost eliminated pressure sores at his facility. Award-winning author Maryn McKenna will speak of the history of MRSA and Dr. John Santa from Consumers Union will speak of the principles of transparency.
The registration fee is $50. The conference, which runs from 8:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., will be at Embassy Suites on Newtown Pike in Lexington. To register, click here.
- Health Watch Usa To Hold Major Conference On Health-care Transparency And Patient Safety Friday, Nov. 13 In Lexington
Health Watch USA will hold its annual conference, "Healthcare Transparency & Patient Safety," Nov. 13 at the Four-Points Sheraton in Lexington, Kentucky. The Somerset-based organization tries to promote health care value, transparency, quality and...
- Health Watch Usa Hosts Chief Medical Director Of Center For Medicare And Medicaid Services In Lexington And Online July 31
Dr. Patrick Conway, chief medical director of the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will be presenting to Kentucky-based Health Watch USA on July 31 at 5 p.m., and with a few clicks on the computer, you can attend virtually. Conway will...
- Calls For Hospitals To Reveal More About Errors, Infections Are Getting Louder; Feds Plan More Data, But Hospitals Fight State Rules
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The stories are hard to hear. A little girl is taken to the hospital after she turns on the water and burns herself in the bathtub. After being admitted, her mother notices she looks dehydrated but...
- Kentucky Needs System To Track Hospital Infections, Doctor Says
Kentucky is in need of a single, accurate system that tracks hospital-acquired infections in order to improve health care and receive state and federal funding, an op-ed piece in The Courier-Journal contends. (Hospitals call these "healthcare-associated...
- Two Conferences This Summer Will Focus On Children's Health
The 2011 Coordinated School Health Institute conference is set for June 29 in Lexington. The conference will focus on the roles community partners and families play in creating healthy places to learn and work. The Growing Healthy Kids in Kentucky conference...