Social workers in the ED tackle many problems

Article Abstract:

Hospital emergency departments often receive clients who need social services as much as medical treatment, and social workers should be available to help these persons. Full-time social workers help solve crisis situations by making temporary arrangements for housing and care of ailing aged persons, homeless or victims of abuse. For instance, Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis, MA, employs social workers in two shifts, from 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM every day. The hospital claims this saves thousands of dollars otherwise spent on inappropriate admissions.

Services, Social workers, Hospital emergency services

---

On-the-job training vital supplement to degree

Article Abstract:

On-the-job training can be invaluable for people training to be hospital administrators, according to a poll by Hospitals magazine. In addition, while 52% of hospital CEOs judged a master's degree in public health to be ideal for a career in hospital administration, 36% favored a master's in business administration instead because of the analytical skills it provides. Hospital CEOs also recommended that programs provide academic coursework in business mergers, and that a grounding in customer service is useful in hospital administration.

Surveys, Training, Employee training, Hospital administration, Hospital administrators

---

The new finance department: CQI triggers big changes in role

Article Abstract:

Hospital finance departments must join in reorienting hospital service to patient-centered care. Tracking of quality improvement programs include, for instance, measuring the length of time patients wait before receiving treatment. Hospital boards are setting up goals and assessing the instsitution's success in meeting them. Hospital finance departments must also learn to predict the resources likely to be required by types of patients. Methods patterned after cost accounting can help analyze the measurement data.

Planning, Quality management, Finance departments

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Nosocomial outbreaks: the Centers for Disease Control's hospital infections program experience, 1980-1990. Major trends in the microbial etiology of nosocomial infection
• Abstracts: Screening the preventable illness. The incentive effects of the Medicare indirect medical education policy. Statistical discrimination in health care
• Abstracts: Physicians: the rate of change accelerates. Family violence: breaking the cycle. The billing office and the CEO
• Abstracts: Cancer at the crossroads: what the onset of the biotech generation will mean for hospitals. TQM shifts hospital-vendor focus to total value, productivity
• Abstracts: What the upper Midwest knows: region leads the nation in net patient revenues. Seven historical lessons about community relations

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.