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We've spent nearly $6 million and still haven't found a working product. After five years we're on our third software package. From the numerous ads we run looking for programmers [...]

John Bozard is taking good care of his family's new addition, beaming with pride and anxious to see 'baby' grow. Bozard's 'family' is Orlando Regional Medical Center, the parent corporation [...]

The combination of patients not taking charge of their regimens and the vagaries of Medicare reimbursement policies too often result in home-based chronic care that cyclically morphs into expensive acute [...]

The other shoe has dropped for William Beaumont Hospitals in Royal Oak. After receiving bond rating downgrades from the major credit rating agencies in August, Beaumont has imposed a nonclinical [...]

The article assesses the reasons that nursing staff resort to patient restraint. Hospitals are taking disciplinary action against uncalled for restraint and imparting the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) training to staff in an effort to address the problem.

Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, will cut about 200 jobs in order to meet its fiscal 2009 budget requirements. The 902-bed provider, which employs roughly 21,000 workers, informed employees about the [...]

Sure you know about Chip Kahn, but have you met his mother? Political tenacity must run in the family. Felicia Kahn, a delegate for Hillary Rodham Clinton and the mother [...]

Byline: Jennifer Lubell A new system that pays hospitals for inpatient procedures based on the severity of a patient's condition hasn't resulted in any drastic cuts or soaring increases to [...]

Byline: Jean DerGurahian Hospitals could claim a slight victory after the Joint Commission's decision to delay implementation of the revised MS 1.20 standard, the contentious medical staff standard providers have [...]

Byline: Melanie Evans Anyone stuck in a hospital bed will tell you where nurses often aren't: nearby. Now there's a study to prove it. That nurses constantly roam halls, travel [...]

NCFE exec may find posse that's looking for her is getting larger In a sure sign of true notoriety-and a rare event in healthcare-former National Century Financial Enterprises executive Rebecca [...]

Byline: Barbara Kirchheimer In a twist on an arrangement typically used to align hospital and physician interests in specialty service areas, SSM Health Care, St. Louis, is testing new inpatient-care [...]

A case study of the various teams working in a UK hospital is conducted to explain the role of human resource management in the operations management of a hospital. Leadership, frequency of team meetings and a sense of trust are shown to be some of the main factors that affect the performance of the team.

Byline: Melanie Evans Hospitals do not do enough to prepare for top-level vacancies, train and track future leaders or adopt measures to promote cultural diversity, results of a survey of [...]

The nation's anemic supply of nurses is a familiar headache for recruiters or executives who grapple with hospitals' daily operations and budget. Now it's an issue for hospitals' general counsels [...]

Hospital employees voting in union elections are swayed by their feelings about their individual supervisors, labor experts say. So, as some hospital executives gear up to avoid employee unionization in [...]

Effective employee surveys require commitment to change In response to growing labor shortages, union activity, and productivity concerns, some hospitals administrators have turned to employee opinion surveys for guidance on [...]

For smoother shift changes, try walking rounds Using taped reports during shift changes had become a problem on our 32-bed medical/oncology unit. The tapes were often incomplete or garbled, and [...]

Unlike a CEO candidate who rarely turns a job offer down, four out of five of the best physician candidates will turn down an offer from a hospital, say physician [...]

Faced with rising employee health benefits costs and the need to offer a competitive benefits package to attract and retain employees, hospital administrators have been forced to learn more about [...]

Literacy crisis threatens hospital workforce In the 1990s, there will not be enough qualified candidates to fill hospital job openings in areas such as housekeeping, security, and data processing, according [...]

Table of Contents Conclusion References Abstract History of the establishment of the School of Anaesthetic Assistants (SAA) in Sudan was mentioned in details where it was clear that in the [...]

The Knowledge and Skills Framework has been recently relaunched in the U.K. to change the working scenario of the hospitals. Several organizations and structures are being developed for the purpose.

The private hospital sector sets out to provide five-star hotel services, The budget for private patient food is generally four times that available in the NHS Hospital food suffers from [...]

Byline: Melanie Evans Just how dire is the nation's chronic nursing shortage? It depends on whom you ask. Registered nurses see the situation as a greater threat to the quality [...]

Byline: Jean Chenoweth The CMS and insurers developing pay-for-performance programs need to take note: Top hospital performance is made, not born! The results of this year's research on the efficiency [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Gardner The nation's top hospitals not only deliver higher quality care at lower cost to more and sicker patients, but they also do it with fewer people. They [...]

Byline: David Burda You pay for what you get, especially when it comes to caregivers. That's the major takeaway from an analysis of the annual 100 Top Hospital list from [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Gardner What does a hospital do when the average age of its nurses is in the upper 40s? In the case of EMH Regional Medical Center, Elyria, Ohio, [...]

CMS: 745 new DRGs for 2008 The CMS in its proposed rule on inpatient hospital services for fiscal 2008 is proposing to create 745 new severity-adjusted DRGs to replace the [...]

This article studies the features of the briefing-debriefing team-based learning model employed by the Israel Air Force to improve team reflexivity. The feasibility of the model in human resource management of surgical departments in hospitals is examined.

It was very interesting to read about the new scheme for pre- registration placements being introduced by the Scottish Executive Health Department. Does this mean there will be equity between [...]

Byline: Melanie Evans Compensation levels for senior executives-as well as governing boards' willingness to make that compensation dependent on the executives' performance-increased in 2006, again, according to Modern Healthcare's annual [...]

* Wisconsin: A new report examines what hospitals in Wisconsin are doing to train and keep health care professionals and attract young people to the field, which faces a growing [...]

Byline: Matthew DoBias Top White House advisers warned recently that pandemic influenza, potentially caused by the avian flu, would stretch state and local resources and cripple the workforce at community [...]

Byline: Ed Finkel When Nickie Hess started working at King's Daughters Medical Center 18 years ago, she slogged through a traditional classroom-and-videos orientation session. "It was very long, very drawn [...]

Byline: Melanie Evans In 2003, hospitals scored a victory in the battle to contain their single largest expense: labor. Continued improvements in productivity cut the number of workers needed to [...]

Byline: Cinda Becker Louisiana's healthcare community continued to deal with the effects of Hurricane Katrina, amid an intensified state investigation into employee deaths at one hospital, 500 employee layoffs at [...]

Byline: Michael Romano On a bright Sunday morning in early August, 14 local ambulances, each staffed by three emergency medical technicians, lined up in formation about a block or so [...]

A study was conducted to understand staff perceptions of the role of the hospital palliative care team and to identify knowledge and confidence levels of general staff caring for patients with palliative care needs. The findings have considerable implications for palliative care services including the requirement of staff that is clear about how to obtain advice and what support is available for cancer patients.

Mike Dixon thinks that working at a hospital where more than one-third of the more than 11,000 employees are under 35 years old is pretty cool. 'Over the past five [...]

editorial comment Evaluating the Hospital at Night (HAN) project is not easy (see page 12). In some hospitals, usually the better staffed ones, excellent care is being delivered by flexible, [...]

Los Angeles County health officials recommended eliminating several key services at troubled Martin Luther King-Drew Medical Center, moves that essentially would reduce the 233-bed academic medical center to a small [...]

Byline: Linda Wilson Martin Memorial Health Systems in Stuart, Fla., takes a long-term view on leadership development. The two-hospital system prefers to cull leaders from within the system, bringing them [...]

Byline: Linda Wilson In the business life of a hospital chief executive officer, few people are as important as the other members of the senior management team, the so-called C-suite. [...]

Byline: Jean Chenoweth Research conducted jointly by Solucient and Cejka Search on characteristics of chief executive officers, executive team formation and CEO evaluation of organizational success represents a new milestone [...]

Byline: Linda Wilson When Bruce Hagen became president of Riverside Methodist Hospital in 2003, he had three prerequisites in mind for his senior team: physicians, physicians and more physicians. About [...]

Byline: Cinda Becker Coaxing orthopedic surgeons to help minimize the skyrocketing costs of supplies has always been one of the most troublesome problems confronting hospital materials managers. But now, two [...]

Byline: Melanie Evans At first glance, for-profit hospitals appear more stingy than not-for-profits when it comes to registered nurses' pay, according to a new comparison from the U.S. Labor Department. [...]