Helping Your Board Ensure Patient Safety
Your quality team has studied the new standard changes, updated policies, and conducted tracers to monitor compliance. What else can you do as an executive to help …
Author Archive for Ruth Elzer
Ruth Elzer is an expert at keeping hospitals compliant. Trained as a nurse, and later as a hospital surveyor, Ruth understands healthcare quality on both the clinical and administrative levels. She has the unique ability to see every facet of a compliance issue, drawing from a deep knowledge of many regulatory bodies. As the Practice Leader for Accreditation and Compliance Services at Compass Group, Ruth gives clients practical solutions that work across the board
Early Detection: Stop Small Problems before they are Big Problems
Bringing minor regulatory problems to light before they have a chance to grow is the most important step toward preventing big problems that could diminish quality and patient safety .
Nov 04, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
The Emergency Room has its own Emergency
You can’t blame the problems in our Emergency Departments on any one part of the system. You can’t say this is the ER’s fault, or the inpatient service department’s fault, or primary care physician’s fault. If we keep pointing fingers and blaming people, we’re not going to change anything. This is a system wide problem. If we reform healthcare without looking at our national problem with Emergency Department care delivery, we will be missing a huge opportunity.
Apr 04, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Curbing Identity Theft at Hospitals
Recent U.S. Federal Trade Commission red flag rules require hospitals and other healthcare providers to comply and become active participants in curbing identity theft.
Apr 03, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
American Healthcare Waiting Time at $240 Billion
Alan Krueger, Princeton University, has touched a raw nerve. Patients are no longer patient. In fact, some of them are sending doctors and hospitals bills for their waiting time. Using the Bureau of Labor Statistics American Time Use Survey, Krueger calculated that Americans age 15 and older collectively spent 847 million hours waiting for medical services [...]
Feb 24, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Case studies to learn more about ways in which Compass Clinical has worked to create better American hospitals.