Covid: Leeds Teaching Hospitals postpone elective operations
Leeds hospital bosses postpone elective surgeries to allow them to prioritise urgent treatments. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - July 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
CMS: Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs; New Categories for Hospital Outpatient Department Prior Authorization Process; Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule: Laboratory Date of Service Policy; Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating Methodology; Physician-Owned Hospitals; Notice of Closure of Two Teaching Hospitals and Opportunity To Apply for Available Slots, Radiation Oncology Model; and Reporting Requirements for Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) To Report COVID-19 Therapeutic Inventory and Usage and To Report Acute Respiratory Illness During the Public Health Emergency (PHE) for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Notice from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) making corrections to dates in theDecember 29, 2020, final rule and interim final rule. This notice is effective June 28, 2021. (Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - June 28, 2021 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
Editor's notebook: California Northstate appears to have won, but it still may have powerful opponents
It appeared last week that California Northstate University's long fight to build a new teaching hospital may finally be over. And, against long odds, that it won. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - June 26, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Adam Steinhauer Source Type: news
Editor's notebook: California Northstate appears to have won, but it still may have powerful opponents
It appeared last week that California Northstate University's long fight to build a new teaching hospital may finally be over. And, against long odds, that it won. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - June 26, 2021 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Adam Steinhauer Source Type: news
Is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus a common pathogen in ventilation-associated pneumonia?: The experience of a tertiary teaching hospital in Jordan
Abstract: Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a life threatening device related infection in intensive care units. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is considered a common contagious pathogen causing pneumonia and sepsis. To assess the prevalence of S aureus in comparison to other pathogens, and their antibacterial sensitivity profile in ventilator-associated pneumonia. Data regarding ventilator-associated pneumonia of adults admitted to the intensive care unit, at the Jordan University of Science and Technology Hospital, between 2012 and 2018 were extracted from the computerized system. Microorganisms and their s...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt named one of best in the country by U.S. News and World Report
Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt was recognized as one of the Southeast ’s top children’s hospitals.
In U.S. News& World Report's Best Children ’s Hospital rankings for 2021-22, the Nashville-facility ranked No. 1 in the Southeast region, tied with Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, and No. 1 in Tennessee.
The teaching hospital earned national recognition in 10 categories:
Neonatology - No. 17 in the nation
Pediatric cancer - No. 21
Pedi atric cardiology and heart surgery… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - June 16, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Meg Wrather Source Type: news
Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt named one of best in the country by U.S. News and World Report
Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt was recognized as one of the Southeast ’s top children’s hospitals.
In U.S. News& World Report's Best Children ’s Hospital rankings for 2021-22, the Nashville-facility ranked No. 1 in the Southeast region, tied with Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, and No. 1 in Tennessee.
The teaching hospital earned national recognition in 10 categories:
Neonatology - No. 17 in the nation
Pediatric cancer - No. 21
Pedi atric cardiology and heart surgery… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - June 16, 2021 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Meg Wrather Source Type: news
Nigeria: 105 Medical Doctors Resign in Ondo
[Vanguard] "Yawning vacancies exist in the Resident Doctor and Consultant cadres at the Teaching Hospital. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 7, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Patients, Caregivers Lament As AKTH Suffers Blackout
[Daily Trust] Patients and caregivers at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) have described the recent electricity blackout in the hospital as very pathetic as the problem lingers. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 4, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news
The COVID-19 Pandemic May Be the Hardest Mountain Nepal ’s Sherpas Have Ever Had to Climb
Everest South Base Camp lies at an altitude of 17,598 feet (5,364 m), but it is no refuge from the global pandemic. The Nepali Sherpas who, in normal times, share the camaraderie of climbers on the world’s highest mountain, now enforce strict social-distancing rules, remaining within their separate camps—indeed, mostly inside their own tents.
“We have made a rule not to walk from one camp to another as some climbers have tested positive,” says Phunuru, a Sherpa guide. “If we see somebody new walking around our camp, we immediately start an inquiry.”
Officially, there is no coronavirus he...
Source: TIME: Health - May 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rojita Adhikari / Everest South Base Camp and Kathmandu Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Nepal overnight Source Type: news
The characteristics and outcomes of trauma admissions to an adult general surgery ward in a tertiary teaching hospital - Bedada AG, Tarpley MJ, Tarpley JL.
BACKGROUND: Traumatic injuries are proportionally higher in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) than high-income counties. Data on trauma epidemiology and patients' outcomes are limited in LMICs. METHODS: A retrospective review of medical reco... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 20, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news
Recognising the key role played by operating department practitioners during the pandemic
The significant role played by operating department practitioners (ODPs) during the pandemic, and their help in saving many thousands of lives, is being marked today (Friday).
On national ODP Day, the union and the College of Operating Department Practitioners is drawing the public’s attention to their roles, to provide greater awareness of the vital work they do.
Usually located in operating theatres, an ODP’s role is to provide complex care to patients at all stages of their operation, including when they receive anaesthetic and during their post-surgery recovery.
Although their job title is not as instantly...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - May 13, 2021 Category: Food Science Authors: Anthony Barnes Tags: News Press release #ODPday CODP ODPs Source Type: news
Susceptibility to chlorhexidine and mupirocin among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates from a teaching hospital, Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo
Despite the widespread use of chlorhexidine (CHX) to prevent infection, data regarding the in vitro action of CHX against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are limited. Clinical isolates from Hospital das Clinicas, Sao Paulo, Brazil, identified during 2002/2003 and 2012/2013 were studied to describe the susceptibility to CHX and mupirocin, molecular characteristics, and virulence profile of MRSA. Susceptibility test to Mupirocin was performed by the disk diffusion method and to CHX by the agar dilution technique. PCR for virulence genes, mecA gene and Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec (SCCmec) types w...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - May 13, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
CMS: Medicare Program; Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Proposed Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2022 Rates; Quality Programs and Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program Requirements for Eligible Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals; Proposed Changes to Medicaid Provider Enrollment; and Proposed Changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program
Notice of proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding changes to the hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) for operating and capital-related costs of acute care hospitals for fiscal year 2022. Contains details of changes impacting Critical Access Hospital (CAH); Medicare graduate medical education for teaching hospitals, including how to distribute additional slots for rural residency training programs; inpatient hospital services provided by long-term care hospitals; quality reporting programs; and changes related to the COVID-19 pandemic, among other things. Comments a...
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - May 10, 2021 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide and self-harm among patients presenting to the emergency department of a teaching hospital in Nepal - Shrestha R, Siwakoti S, Singh S, Shrestha AP.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global challenge that is not just limited to the physical consequences but also a significant degree of a mental health crisis. Self-harm and suicide are its extreme effects. We aim to explore the impact of this pandemic on suici... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 4, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
