When it comes time to ask for more help or make other department adjustments, how do you make a case for your requests? Benchmarking can help a department measure essential duties and the amount of time it takes to perform these tasks, and the docume
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Carl Hoffman Known for the better part of its 13-year existence as Blue Ridge Medical Imaging, First Call Parts, Salem, Va, recently underwent both a name change and an extensive rebranding process. The former official Siemens refurbishers decided to rethink the concept of parts testing and expanded the process to make sure every system receives […]
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L-R: David Harrington, PhD, and Sam Downing, CEO, Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System, Salinas, Calif, mount a monitor. L-R: Nurse Dottie Harrington and Ray Schmitt, Assist International, set up a Philips bedside monitor in the emergency room. During a biomedical mission trip to India in 1992, David Harrington, PhD, a health care consultant from Medway, […]
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The Joint Commission has several different accreditation programs in addition to the one for hospital accreditation that we are most familiar with. It offers accreditation programs for ambulatory care, behavioral health care, critical access hospitals, home care, hospitals, laboratory services, long-term care and office-based surgery. Many hospitals seek only hospital accreditation; however, others may seek […]
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In the 21st century, your first baby picture is likely to be snapped in the womb, and the same with the first video. Ultrasound exams—two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and four-dimensional—have become routine steps in prenatal care. With today’s image quality, parents who do not want to know the sex of their baby may find it difficult to […]
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