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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...
- Speakers At Conference Discuss Impacts And Possible Solutions For Deadly Mistakes And Near Misses In Hospitals
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Medical mistakes made in hospitals cause 98,000 deaths per year. Or four times that many? That is the widely accepted number based on a 1999 Institute of Medicine report, but a study published in the Journal of...
- 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...
- Infections, Other Safety Issues Plague Hospitals, Maybe More So When Nursing Is Cut; Here's A Good Series On It
The Centers for Disease Control has reported that nearly 1 million patient-safety incidents, including infections that patients acquired in hospitals, occurred among Medicare patients over the years 2006, 2007, 2008. In all, the incidents -- which represented...
- 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...
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Health Care Transparency and Patient Advocacy Conference to be held Nov. 11 in Lexington
Focusing on issues like hospital- and health care-acquired infections, the impact of medical errors and infections on patients, and the importance of transparency, the Health Care Transparency and Patient Advocacy Conference will be held Nov. 11 in Lexington.
Speakers include John Santa, director of the Health Ratings Center for Consumer Reports, who will discuss the principles of transparency; author Maryn McKenna, who will present the history of MRSA; Dr. Keith Sinclair, medical director of Bluegrass Oakwood in Somerset, who will speak of how transparency has nearly eliminated pressure sores at his institution; and Frances Griffin, a faculty member at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, who will present on the IHI global trigger tool.
The gathering is from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Embassy Suites in Lexington. Registration is $50 and includes a box lunch. Physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, physical therapists and human resource managers attending the conference will receive 6.5 hours of continuing education credits. 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...
- Speakers At Conference Discuss Impacts And Possible Solutions For Deadly Mistakes And Near Misses In Hospitals
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Medical mistakes made in hospitals cause 98,000 deaths per year. Or four times that many? That is the widely accepted number based on a 1999 Institute of Medicine report, but a study published in the Journal of...
- 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...
- Infections, Other Safety Issues Plague Hospitals, Maybe More So When Nursing Is Cut; Here's A Good Series On It
The Centers for Disease Control has reported that nearly 1 million patient-safety incidents, including infections that patients acquired in hospitals, occurred among Medicare patients over the years 2006, 2007, 2008. In all, the incidents -- which represented...
- 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...