Christina's Considerations

Reducing Ventilator Associated

One of my newest blogger friends at Running a Hospital has a wonderful post with comments on reducing ventilator associated pneumonia. The discussion alone is wonderful, but for Paul to share his hospital's rates of ventilator associate pneumonia is spectacular.... Read more →

Avoid Getting Infected

Perhaps it is my role as Safety Officer or Chair of the Environment of Care at my hospital, or the fact that I just finished the compelling book The Great Influenza. Anyway, I came across an article in the AARP... Read more →

Goals

Many years ago when I was a young, single woman I established two professional goals to complete before I was 40. The first was to become the administrator of a small HCA hospital. Well, my HCA isn't what it was... Read more →

A Big Day for the Saints!

I've waited a very long time for this day and hopefully the one that will follow -- Superbowl Sunday. There is still a buzz on my weblog especially from all ya'll who want to brush up on the lyrics of... Read more →

Unintentional Consequences

It seems the Saints win over the weekend has stirred a few fans to searching the web for "Oh, when the Saints go marching in...", "How 'bout them Saints", "Fleur de lis", "Saints", etc. The unintentional consequence is that they... Read more →

PHRs Transforming Health Care

Congressman Patrick Kennedy has a nice article in Most Wired on Personal Health Records. We agree that: Most individuals see PHRs as a lot of work with little benefit. Patients may input their diagnoses and medication histories, but few --... Read more →

What are new consumers looking for?

Health Services Research, 2005 and H&HN research, 2006 say that the five things that matter most to patients are: Doctors treat patients with courtesy and respect. Doctors explain the facts in a way that patients can understand. Doctors, nurses and... Read more →

Planning Improvement?

Anticlue has some wonderful recent posts on planning for improvement, communication, and team work. It is an HIT site, but of value to anyone because it seems to be based on Dr. Deming's teachings. So, read on ...http://www.anticlue.net/ Read more →

Running a Hospital

What a small world! I like to see how people find my blog and I found that a weblog in the Netherlands listed my blog as one of their favorites! In the process I also learned about a new blog... Read more →

Happy New Year

This weekend I had an opportunity to clean off my home desk and it was a rewarding experience in more ways than one. In the process, I came a cross a quote (source unknown) that is perfect as we begin... Read more →