Tag Archive | "behavioral health"

Hospital Acute Care Psych Unit Uses Performance Improvement Committee

Monday, January 18, 2010

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How one facility is using “verbal intervention” and an education/training opportunity to avoid the kind of compliance trouble Medicare/Medicaid facilities often experience when it comes to using physical restraints with psychiatric patients. One facility is taking a…

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Keep Staff Up to Date on CPR, Physical Restraint Policies

Monday, January 4, 2010

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5 risk management measures that health care providers can learn from one unlucky facility. One hospital had to learn the hard way — after a death in its behavioral health unit and a corrective action plan…

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