Shm Benchmarks Committee

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Improving Patient Safety and Quality of Care

Author:: Shm Benchmarks Committee

Publish date: September 1, 2005

Patient safety and improved quality of care have become priority issues in the American healthcare system.

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Maximizing Throughput and Improving Patient Flow

Author:: Shm Benchmarks Committee

Publish date: September 1, 2005

According to data from the American Hospital Association (1), in 1985, the United States had 5732 operational community hospitals; by 2002, the latest...

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Improving Resource Utilization

Author:: Shm Benchmarks Committee

Publish date: September 1, 2005

Today’s hospitals must address a variety of challenges stemming from the expectation to provide more services and better quality with fewer fina...

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Providing Extraordinary Availability

Author:: Shm Benchmarks Committee

Publish date: September 1, 2005

In 1994, Jack Rosenbloom was admitted to an Indiana hospital after suffering a serious heart attack. While in the critical care unit (CCU) of the heal...

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Leading Hospital Medical Staffs

Author:: Shm Benchmarks Committee

Publish date: September 1, 2005

When Robert Lee, MD, an internist affiliated with Iowa Health Physicians, a multi-specialty group in Des Moines, was called to the hospital to see one...

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Improving Physician's Practices

Author:: Shm Benchmarks Committee

Publish date: September 1, 2005

Hospitals face a range of critical issues and need members of their medical staff to assume a role in addressing them.

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Treating Unassigned Patients

Author:: Shm Benchmarks Committee

Publish date: September 1, 2005

In the 1970s and 1980s, indigent patients experienced problems at hospital Emergency Departments (EDs) around the country. They were refused care and ...