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Want to improve your employees’ health? Lead by example

Terri Williams Business Management, Services & Risk Management

Most employees spend at least eight of their 24 daily weekday hours at work. And whether companies want to assume responsibility or not, employees believe that their jobs play a role in their health. For example, a 2017 CareerBuilder survey found that 56% of Americans are overweight and they blame it on sitting at a desk most of the day; being too tired from work to exercise; having to skip meals because of time constraints; and having to engage in workplace celebrations. Employees, especially healthy employees, are the lifeblood of an organization.

Healthy aging in the nursing profession

Amanda Ghosh Medical & Allied Healthcare

If you’re a nurse, you may not be aging well. According to the ANA's Healthy Nurse Survey, 82% of nurses believe they are at risk for workplace stress. Stress at work can reduce your quality of life and lead to significant health problems — two significant hurdles in the path to fit and active golden years. September is Healthy Aging Month, so now is a great time to step back and assess your health. Are you aging gracefully? If not, here are a few ways to combat nursing-related health problems.

Simulation allows practice of ‘Code Blue drill’ in large health…

Len DeRamus Medical & Allied Healthcare

In just about every healthcare facility, announcements exist to let the staff know of emergency events. Several factors, including training, skill, experience and practice, help mitigate this autonomic reaction in healthcare providers. How does one hone their skills, and gain experience and practice without placing actual patients at risk of harm? On Aug. 9, The University of Georgia Health Center practiced "Code Blue" drills. These drills were simulation-based and reviewed medical emergencies.

September is Healthy Aging Month: Proper oral care helps seniors age well

Tammy Hinojos Oral & Dental Healthcare

How essential is having a healthy mouth to your physical health? According to many medical experts, you really can’t be in peak physical condition if your oral health isn't what it should be. Dentists who are aware of this correlation tell their patients to think about their mouths as the "gateway to wellness." For seniors, maintaining oral health becomes even more important. This is because as people age, they become more susceptible to diseases.

Pilot study: Treating opioid use disorder with naltrexone during pregnancy…

Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied Healthcare

Neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) is common due to the current opioid addiction epidemic. The incidence of infant opioid withdrawal has grown rapidly in many countries over the last decade, nearly a fivefold increase, presenting significant health and early brain development concerns. However, a recent study led by researchers at Boston Medical Center showed that infants of mothers taking naltrexone during pregnancy had shorter hospital stays than infants of mothers who took buprenorphine during pregnancy.

Bummed, burnt or just plain beat?

Lisa Cole Mental Healthcare

Life can often feel like an endurance contest — deadline after deadline with piles upon piles of work. When we’re wallowing in funky feelings, it can help to pause, determine what we are feeling and needing and take appropriate action. As much as we think pushing on even harder may remedy our discomfort, stopping may be the best first thing to do. We can give ourselves "permission to pause." By taking that break and granting ourselves a breather, it may become obvious that we are simply physically exhausted.

Global surgical transfer of care to the wound clinic

Tiffany Hamm and Jeff Mize Medical & Allied Healthcare

A common scenario occurring in wound clinics all over the nation is the request for follow-up wound services by surgeons during the post-operative global period. Wound clinic physicians might be seeing these patients with the intention of offloading some of the work for the surgeon or believing that they are increasing volume in their own clinics. Wound clinic physicians must be aware of the surgical global packaging rules as they relate to the transfer of care from one provider to another.

Is your hospital’s patient-centered approach specific enough?

Lisa Mulcahy Healthcare Administration

As a healthcare professional, you strive to provide your patients with service that creates the highest level of satisfaction possible. Yet, even the best patient-centered approach may be overlooking small points that really matter. It's key to take a granular overview of whether you're getting as specific as you possibly can when it comes to the details your patients truly care about. Use this advice to provide the things they truly want and need.

New paper looks at link between private equity, unforeseen medical billing

Seth Sandronsky Medical & Allied Healthcare

The rising price of healthcare, up 18.6% over the past 12 months, is hammering businesses and the customers that they serve across the U.S. A recent paper from the Institute for New Economic Thinking, "Private Equity and Surprise Medical Billing," by Eileen Appelbaum, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and Rosemary Batt, the Alice Hanson Cook Professor of Women and Work at Cornell University, sheds light on part of this inflationary trend.

Study: Patients don’t think payers, providers can protect their data

Scott E. Rupp Medical & Allied Healthcare

Providers and payers: Patients don't think you’re able to keep their personal data healthy and safe, even though you’re charged with doing the same for their health. That blunt assessment is from a skeptical public who is growing increasingly weary of seemingly daily news about breaches and hacks. According to a new study by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and POLITICO, only 17% have a "great deal" of faith that their health plan will protect their data. Hospitals are not much further ahead.

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