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Will More Nursing And Optometrists Lead To Erosion of Patient-Centered Medicine?
We have entered dangerous times in my beloved medical profession. Non-doctor health professionals, backed by powerful lobbies, are increasingly interested in the easing of certain practice restrictions. New titles like “clinician” or “advanced practitioner” or “provider” are masking a stark reality - people will be able to practice medicine without ever having to attend medical school, perform rigorous residencies or be comprehensively and extensively trained as physicians. This is not to diminish the powerful benefits of nurses. Far from it. But nurses are…
Have You Mastered Patient, Family Engagement?
Take advantage of a new resource that helps primary care practices create a culture of patient and family engagement throughout every step of care delivery.
Using Patient-Specific 3D Printed Surgical Guides for Total Knee Replacement
While surgery has always, ultimately, been about the patient, it hasn't always been patient-centered. Historically, patients have not had an easy time of understanding exactly what their surgery entails and have often been treated as if they were ancillary to the surgical problem presented.
How Patewood Memorial Hospital Empowered Nurses to Improve Patient Engagement
Nurses, who have close and frequent contact with patients and who traditionally emphasize patient-centered care, are in an excellent position to be the driving force of patient engagement.
Patient and Family Engagement at BIDMC
Become a BIDMC Patient/Family Advisor and partner with us to help improve the health outcomes for patients throughout the medical center. Your voice could lead to improvements in quality, safety, communication and hospital processes that have a dramatic impact on the patient care experience. For more information, please email your questions and contact information to [email protected].
How doctors can get better patient satisfaction scores
Some organizations have established physician coaching programs to improve patient satisfaction scores.
Patient Centered Care GetWellNetwork
Our FHCC team takes pride that we provide excellent patient-centered care every time, everywhere, by everyone. One of the key elements is providing high qual...
What If a Nursing Home Won't Take You Back?
A nursing home patient can request a hearing if they are admitted to the hospital from a nursing home but upon returning to the nursing home finds they won't be readmitted. A favorable ruling doesn't mean the fight is over. California resident Bruce Anderson discovered the nursing home where he...
Infographic: Bookmark these Patient Lift Techniques for Home Caregivers
Injuries caused by overexertion suffered by people in healthcare occupations are among the highest across all industries in the United States. In fact, healthcare and hospital workers, specifically, suffer overexertion injuries about twice as often as people working in other industries, while nursing home workers saw more than three times the average number of overexertion injuries.Here’s an infographic to help further illustrate these and more…
MAKO Robotic-Assisted Knee Replacement Seminar
MAKO Robotic-Assisted Knee Replacement: Advances to Help Decrease Pain and Get Your Active Life Back Attend a free education seminar with internationally known knee surgeon and orthopaedic sports medicine specialist Dr. Frank R. Noyes. Learn more about the symptoms, causes and treatment options for knee replacement including MAKOplasty, robotic-assisted partial knee resurfacing procedure. Find out how MAKOplasty may help you recover faster, feel less pain and…
Patient & Family Centered Care Award Winner
The Patient & Family Centered Care Award is an opportunity for our patients and their families to honor a staff member of Frederick Memorial Hospital who displays dedication and commitment to our goal of providing superb quality and superb service, all the time.
Patient-Centered Care: A Focus on Optimal Recovery
Paradigm CEO John S. Watts, Jr., explores taking a value-based care approach to achieve patient-centered care. Read an excerpt from his article, Patient-Centered Care: A Focus on Optimal Recovery, in Brain Injury Professional. Click here for a PDF preview Paradigm's Brain Injury publication. Before becoming Paradigm’s CEO in 2017, I spent my career in healthcare, leading large payer organizations and advising several private equity backed healthcare…
Team-based Care Fuels Patient Self-management Success
In a busy family medicine practice, it often is difficult to get patients to engage in and contribute to their own health care, a concept popularly labeled patient self-management, but one family physician in Wisconsin found that changing some basic processes and empowering his nursing staff resulted in more patient-self management, better patient care and more face time with his patients. Patient self-management, which can include…
