Move over, JCAHO
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Crowley, LA-based American Legion Hospital is the first US hospital to do away with the Joint Commission Accreditation of Healthcare Organization (JCAHO). The firm shifted to ISO 9000, a set of quality standards employed mainly by manufacturing businesses and several foreign hospitals. According to Legion CEO Leonard Spears the move to junk the JCAHO was made since the ISO process is less disruptive than the JCAHO required inspection in every three years. The shift was also made because Spears believes in the idea of not being dictated on how to run the business. Instead, the ISO only require one to have quality management system and to accomplish its goals.
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Is the first US hospital to do away with the Joint Commission Accreditation of Healthcare Organization (JCAHO)
Publication Name: Hospitals & Health Networks
Subject: Health care industry
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Year: 1998
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Picking a peck of trouble
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Hospital executives received a memo over the use of PSO or provider-sponsored organizations, which integrate financing and delivery of care. The memo advised hospitals to be extra careful in their use of PSOs, particularly in sharing patient information, for they will encounter reproval from law enforcers. According to Bruce Fried, former director if HCFA's Center for Health Plans and Providers in Washington, the memo comes following the shift of law enforcement community from fraud-and-abuse probes on healthcare to such thing called managed care.
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Hospital execs received a memo over use of PSO or provider-sponsored organizations, which integrate financing & delivery of care
Publication Name: Hospitals & Health Networks
Subject: Health care industry
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Year: 1998
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No pain, big gain
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AtlantiCare Medical Center of Lynn, MA, conducts a Healing Connection program which is part of the new patient-oriented care movement that offers nontraditional services. AtlantiCare Medical Center CEO Andy Riddell noted that inpatients rely on 10% to 15% less meds and can be released one day and a half to two days earlier than usual. Customer satisfaction has also improved from the previous 71% of respondents who were dissatisfied with patient care. Riddell said that that statistic prompted him to search for solutions.
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Conducts a Healing Connection program which is part of the new patient-oriented care movement
Publication Name: Hospitals & Health Networks
Subject: Health care industry
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Year: 1998
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