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Mount Carmel ’s heart team directs its efforts on helping patients live full lives
According to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 28 million Americans are living with heart disease. And while that may sound daunting, the key word in that sentence is living. People are living with heart disease. And that ’s due in large part to advances in treatment that are keeping patients out of the hospital and living their lives.
Mount Carmel is addressing the “living” aspect of conditions like heart disease and stroke by developing its facilities and treatment programs around…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - July 27, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Mount Carmel Source Type: news
Implementation of an in-hospital stroke simulation protocol
International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance,Volume 31, Issue 6, Page 552-562, July 2018. Purpose A major component of hospital stroke care involves prompt identification of stroke in admitted patients. Delays in recognizing stroke symptoms and initiating treatment for in-hospital stroke can adversely impact patient outcomes. This quality improvement intervention used simulation together with a traditional lecture to instruct nurses at a university hospital about a new stroke protocol being implemented to increase rapid recognition of stroke and meet Joint Commission National Hospital Inpatient Quality Measures. ...
Source: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance - June 29, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Grady Health System doctor ’s app helps direct EMS stroke care
A few years ago, Dr. Raul Nogueira began working on an idea for how to get stroke patients to the right hospitals faster — resulting in less long-term damage and suffering.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - May 18, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Erin Moriarty Source Type: news
6 Mercy hospitals designated STEMI centers
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services on Monday announced and six Mercy hospitals made the list of Missouri Time Critical Diagnosis STEMI Centers.
STEMI is a common name for ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction, a serious heart attack in which one of the heart’s main arteries is blocked. Because of the risk of death and disability, patients experiencing a STEMI need quick care. The Time Critical Diagnosis system also designates hospitals for their level of trauma and stroke care.
The…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - May 15, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: news
American Well acquires Virginia-based hospital telehealth company
American Well has announced it will acquire telehealth company Avizia, broadening its telehealth business to acute care.
Boston-based American Well has specialized in connecting patients to physicians, whether for urgent care or connecting a patient to his or her primary care physician. With the addition of Virginia-based Avizia, American Well will be able to connect doctors from one hospital to other doctors in ano ther, whether for behavioral health, stroke, intensive care units or pediatrics.…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - May 1, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Jessica Bartlett Source Type: news
Modelling mortality and discharge of hospitalized stroke patients using a phase-type recovery model
AbstractWe model the length of in-patient hospital stays due to stroke and the mode of discharge using a phase-type stroke recovery model. The model allows for three different types of stroke: haemorrhagic (the most severe, caused by ruptured blood vessels that cause brain bleeding), cerebral infarction (less severe, caused by blood clots) and transient ischemic attack or TIA (the least severe, a mini-stroke caused by a temporary blood clot). A four-phase recovery process is used, where the initial phase depends on the type of stroke, and transition from one phase to the next depends on the age of the patient. There are th...
Source: Health Care Management Science - May 1, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Annual costs attributed to atrial fibrillation management: cross-sectional study of primary healthcare electronic records
This study aims to describe overall annual costs per patient for management of non-valvular AF in a primary healthcare (PHC) setting and compare these costs between the groups of patients treated with vitamin K antagonists, antiplatelets or non-treated through a population-based study conducted with electronic health records. We analysed annual costs per person of 19,787 patients in 2012; PHC visits, hospital admissions, AF-related events requiring hospital admission, referrals to secondary specialists, sick leave, diagnostic tests and laboratory tests at PHC level, including INR determinations performed in PHC, and drug t...
Source: The European Journal of Health Economics - February 20, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Centralisation of acute stroke services in London: Impact evaluation using two treatment groups
This study evaluates the impact of centralising London's stroke care on 7 process and outcome indicators using a difference‐in‐difference analysis with two treatment groups, Hyper Acute and discontinued London Trusts, and data on all stroke patients recorded in the hospital episode statistics database from April 2006 to April 2014. The policy resulted in improved thrombolysis treatment and lower rates of pneumonia in acute units. However, 6 indicators worsened in the Trusts that were meant to discontinue services, including deaths within 7 and 30 days, readmissions, brain scan rates, and thrombolysis treatment. The re...
Source: Health Economics - December 28, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Rocco Friebel, Katharina Hauck, Paul Aylin Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Hospital to pilot stroke app with Dayton-area EMS squads
Miami Valley Hospital will pilot a new smart device app with three local EMS departments that is expected to increase coordinated care for stroke victims and significantly cut the time it takes to reverse potential brain damage.
The hospital is the first in Southwest Ohio to pilot the device.
Pulsara is a cloud-based communication application that will place all members of the hospital’s stroke team – including EMS, neurologists, CAT scan technologists, nurses and consulting physicians –…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - June 6, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: news
Shawnee Mission Health races the clock with new stroke software
Since Shawnee Mission Health implemented a stroke screening software, the hospital system has saved valuable minutes in treating patients.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - May 31, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Elise Reuter Source Type: news
Hospital heterogeneity: what drives the quality of health care
AbstractA major feature of health care systems is substantial variation in health care quality across hospitals. The quality of stroke care widely varies across NHS hospitals. We investigate factors that may explain variations in health care quality using measures of quality of stroke care. We combine NHS trust data from the National Sentinel Stroke Audit with other data sets from the Office for National Statistics, NHS and census data to capture hospitals ’ human and physical assets and organisational characteristics. We employ a class of non-parametric methods to explore the complex structure of the data and a set of c...
Source: The European Journal of Health Economics - April 24, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Long-term care provision, hospital bed blocking, and discharge destination for hip fracture and stroke patients
AbstractWe examine the relationship between long-term care supply (care home beds and prices) and (i) the probability of being discharged to a care home and (ii) length of stay in hospital for patients admitted to hospital for hip fracture or stroke. Using patient level data from all English hospitals and allowing for a rich set of demographic and clinical factors, we find no association between discharge destination and long-term care beds supply or prices. We do, however, find evidence of bed blocking: hospital length of stay for hip fracture patients discharged to a care home is shorter in areas with more long-term care...
Source: International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics - February 27, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Capital idea: Trenton health system launches region's first mobile stroke unit
Capital Health is hitting the streets in Mercer County Monday with the region ’s first mobile stroke unit.
“What we have is a stroke-ready hospital on wheels,” said Dr. Michael Stiefel, director of the Capital Institute for Neurosciences and the Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center at Capital Health in Trenton. “We can bring this to patients, rather than bring patients to the hospital, when time is critical.”
The mobile unit was funded through a portion of a $2 million grant the health system…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - January 30, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: John George Source Type: news
Differences in Use of High-quality and Low-quality Hospitals Among Working-age Individuals by Insurance Type
Background: Research suggests that individuals with Medicaid or no insurance receive fewer evidence-based treatments and have worse outcomes than those with private insurance for a broad range of conditions. These differences may be due to patients’ receiving care in hospitals of different quality.
Research Design: We used the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project State Inpatient Databases 2009–2010 data to identify patients aged 18–64 years with private insurance, Medicaid, or no insurance who were hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, pneumonia, stroke, or gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Mul...
Source: Medical Care - January 16, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
