The Obama administration has $1 billion of federal funds earmarked from last year's health reform law that will go toward innovation programs designed to boost jobs and improve patient care.
Have any ideas?
The administration will award grants in March 2012 to people who come up with the best ideas to lift care and save money for those enrolled in the federal healthcare programs Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program. THe money is coming from the Affordable Care Act slated to fund a new CMS Innovation Center.
To get a grant, projects must start within six months and the program will concentrate on those ideas that spur the most hiring and workforce training.
Friday, November 25, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Constitution Clash Over Healthcare Heads to Supreme Court
Some people just hate to see those in need get healthcare.
http://www.latimes.com/la-na-healthcare-court-20110929,0,6378627.story
The Obama care package is heading to the Supreme Court (the first of various rounds). What's the issue? Afront to civil liberties? Or a civil society taking care of the least among them. We sure know that we haven't been doing a good job of the latter. What's your take?
http://www.latimes.com/la-na-healthcare-court-20110929,0,6378627.story
The Obama care package is heading to the Supreme Court (the first of various rounds). What's the issue? Afront to civil liberties? Or a civil society taking care of the least among them. We sure know that we haven't been doing a good job of the latter. What's your take?
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Ever Striked as a Nurse?
23 000 nurses in California his the streets for a one day strike to send a message to three hospital employers that RNs will not accept reductions in patient services or cuts to nurses and other caregivers.
The members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United walked out. They are making 200 demands to counter Sutter executives that would:
Restrict their ability to effectively advocate for patients
Effectively force nurses to work when sick, dangerously exposing extremely ill patients to infection.
Sharply reduce nurses’ healthcare coverage and retiree health benefits.
The Sutter RNs are also protesting years of widespread cuts in patient care services
Have you ever striked as a nurse? If so what were the circumstances?
The members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United walked out. They are making 200 demands to counter Sutter executives that would:
Restrict their ability to effectively advocate for patients
Effectively force nurses to work when sick, dangerously exposing extremely ill patients to infection.
Sharply reduce nurses’ healthcare coverage and retiree health benefits.
The Sutter RNs are also protesting years of widespread cuts in patient care services
Have you ever striked as a nurse? If so what were the circumstances?
Monday, August 1, 2011
America's Underfunded State healthcare
It's not good, not good at all. But thankfully Republicans have the solution which involves cutting healthcare, medicare, and of course corporate taxes
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/mapping-americas-underfunded-state-pension-and-healthcare-liability-debacle
Friday, July 29, 2011
The Healing Power of Nurses
Nurses are not only on the front line when it comes to healthcare, they're also usually the provider patients see the most often during their stay at a hospital or even a clinic.
That highlights the necessity of providing health care. Ok, that's so obvious. However, the type of care is starting to matter. Treatment doesn't just involve the facts of the ailment, yet the holistic healthcare experience for the patient.
Nurses who offer healthcare that goes beyond merely pills and measurements are starting to notice noticeable improvements in patients.
http://blog.mynursinguniforms.com/index.php/nurses-put-caring-back-into-healthcare/
The simply act of caring improves not only patient experience, but empirically noted to speed up recovery.
of course there's a differentiation between offering a 'hotel' service at hospital, and offering holistic healthcare.
Healthcare focus is changing in hospitals to encourage different methods of healthcare provision.
Patients can help this process by supporting their nurses who work a tireless and highly stressful job. That goes a long way to help make a stressed patient receive the care they require and usually deserve.
That highlights the necessity of providing health care. Ok, that's so obvious. However, the type of care is starting to matter. Treatment doesn't just involve the facts of the ailment, yet the holistic healthcare experience for the patient.
Nurses who offer healthcare that goes beyond merely pills and measurements are starting to notice noticeable improvements in patients.
http://blog.mynursinguniforms.com/index.php/nurses-put-caring-back-into-healthcare/
The simply act of caring improves not only patient experience, but empirically noted to speed up recovery.
of course there's a differentiation between offering a 'hotel' service at hospital, and offering holistic healthcare.
Healthcare focus is changing in hospitals to encourage different methods of healthcare provision.
Patients can help this process by supporting their nurses who work a tireless and highly stressful job. That goes a long way to help make a stressed patient receive the care they require and usually deserve.
Sunday, January 28, 2007
A Journey into Nursing
Once upon a time there was a young girl who wanted to be a doctor. She even wrote about it in first grade. Especially because then she could be the one giving the shots. All through high school she still thought about being a doctor, she even volunteered in a hospital, but never really envisioned her dream as a reality and life came in and swept her up and she ended up doing all kinds of other things that had nothing to do with medicine.
Many years later, as she was expecting her first child, her mother came to visit her for Christmas. When her mother arrived the Wannabe realized that something was very wrong. Her initial impression was that her mother may have had a stroke. Her mom would sit in the same position for hours, not realizing that time had passed. One day it took her 5 hours to get ready. She was also losing control of her bladder functions. So on the day after Christmas the Wannabe's mother in law drove them to the hospital.
Once in the ER there was a 2 hour wait to even be triaged (you wrote down what was wrong with you on a piece of paper and turned that in to the nurse, who then decided what order you would be triaged in). But once in triage Wannabe's mom was immediately given a bed in the ER. A CT scan was ordered and the dubious "shadow" showed up. Wannabe's mom was transferred upstairs (med/surg) where no one felt like they should tell Wannabe anything. She had to fight really hard to be sure that her mom was treated well. Eventually she was able to find the Doc (who rounded at 5:30am) who said "Your mom has cancer" and Wannabe was like "She has cancer and she had a stroke?" Oh, the shadows on Mom's brain are the cancer...
Then Wannabe's mom was transferred to the Oncology floor and the new Doc called (a 7 mos pregnant) Wannabe at home at 7:30pm and said "If we don't start Chemotherapy right now your mom will die within the week" So of course we started the chemo. And Mom wilted, it made her much sicker than she was. And one day, on the brink of a nervous breakdown, Wannabe asked a nice nurse if she could just explain what was going on with her mom.
The nurse was so loving and kind and she read Wannabe the chart in English. Basically, Wannabe's mom had Stage IV lung cancer, it was everywhere in her body: lungs, lymph, breast, skin, blood, and brain. There is no coming back from it says the nurse, she is terminal. Something the Doc had never thought to say. And the nurse helps to arrange hospice care.
Less than two months after diagnosis Wannabe's mom dies. One week to the day after that, Wannabe's son is born 3 weeks early via c-section. Again she encounters some amazing nurses. And one day she wakes up and realizes...It is the nurses who give the shots! The nurses are the ones who really give the care and make a difference in peoples lives. All this time she has wasted thinking that she would have to go through hoops to go to medical school with a husband and a child, but no, she could go to nursing school.
And that is the story of how I got my head out of my butt and realized what is truly important to me.
Many years later, as she was expecting her first child, her mother came to visit her for Christmas. When her mother arrived the Wannabe realized that something was very wrong. Her initial impression was that her mother may have had a stroke. Her mom would sit in the same position for hours, not realizing that time had passed. One day it took her 5 hours to get ready. She was also losing control of her bladder functions. So on the day after Christmas the Wannabe's mother in law drove them to the hospital.
Once in the ER there was a 2 hour wait to even be triaged (you wrote down what was wrong with you on a piece of paper and turned that in to the nurse, who then decided what order you would be triaged in). But once in triage Wannabe's mom was immediately given a bed in the ER. A CT scan was ordered and the dubious "shadow" showed up. Wannabe's mom was transferred upstairs (med/surg) where no one felt like they should tell Wannabe anything. She had to fight really hard to be sure that her mom was treated well. Eventually she was able to find the Doc (who rounded at 5:30am) who said "Your mom has cancer" and Wannabe was like "She has cancer and she had a stroke?" Oh, the shadows on Mom's brain are the cancer...
Then Wannabe's mom was transferred to the Oncology floor and the new Doc called (a 7 mos pregnant) Wannabe at home at 7:30pm and said "If we don't start Chemotherapy right now your mom will die within the week" So of course we started the chemo. And Mom wilted, it made her much sicker than she was. And one day, on the brink of a nervous breakdown, Wannabe asked a nice nurse if she could just explain what was going on with her mom.
The nurse was so loving and kind and she read Wannabe the chart in English. Basically, Wannabe's mom had Stage IV lung cancer, it was everywhere in her body: lungs, lymph, breast, skin, blood, and brain. There is no coming back from it says the nurse, she is terminal. Something the Doc had never thought to say. And the nurse helps to arrange hospice care.
Less than two months after diagnosis Wannabe's mom dies. One week to the day after that, Wannabe's son is born 3 weeks early via c-section. Again she encounters some amazing nurses. And one day she wakes up and realizes...It is the nurses who give the shots! The nurses are the ones who really give the care and make a difference in peoples lives. All this time she has wasted thinking that she would have to go through hoops to go to medical school with a husband and a child, but no, she could go to nursing school.
And that is the story of how I got my head out of my butt and realized what is truly important to me.
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