Search results for "Patient Satisfaction"
August 17, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/17/
Treating chest pain in 90 minutes or less
When a physician from a small town in Wyoming calls LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City about transferring a patient with chest pain, he'll probably talk to Dean A. Mayer, ACP Member.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/04/chest-pain.htm
15 Apr 2007
Changes afoot at physician-owned specialty hospitals
When Oklahoma Heart Hospital opened in August 2002 in Oklahoma City, it didn't take long for nearby community hospital Baptist Medical Center to realize it needed to make some changes to offset the loss of patients. But new government and state regulations will mean changes in the specialty hospital workplace in the coming months and years.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/08/cover-story.htm
15 Aug 2007
Sending patients home with a little extra care
Campaign advances care for home health patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/08/home-health.htm
15 Aug 2007
In the News
Hospitals meeting quality reporting goals, CMS says.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/01/itn.htm
15 Jan 2008
It's not an admission, it's an experience
When former hospitalist M. Bridget Duffy, MD, became chief experience officer at the Cleveland Clinic last year, she explored every aspect of the hospital’s operation and set out to improve it. The changes instituted by her office of patient experience are making the Cleveland Clinic look and feel more like part of a very customer-service-oriented industry. That's no coincidence, say experts.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/02/cover.htm
15 Feb 2008
Letter from the Editor
Does your hospital have free wireless Internet in waiting areas, or offer patients aromatherapy and massages?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/02/editor.htm
15 Feb 2008
A different kind of competency
Juan Lopez, a Hispanic man with limited English proficiency, is admitted to your hospital with severe abdominal pain. You think he needs surgery, but he insists that the pain is the result of a hex, and requests treatment from a witch doctor. How do you respond?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/03/cover.htm
15 Mar 2008
Raising the bar on health care ratings sites
Raising the bar on health care ratings sites.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/05/ratings.htm
15 May 2008
Hospitalists implement disease management strategies
Some hospitals are seeing fewer readmissions for CHF, stroke and other conditions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/05/strategies.htm
15 May 2008