Patient Care
July 23, 2012
Campaign Puts a Spotlight on Fleet Readiness Center
As CEO of Mayo Clinic in Florida, William Rupp oversees a medical complex with thousands of employees who must operate with surgical precision. On Friday, he joined a group of JAX Chamber members for a tour of another large-scale Jacksonville organization where there is scant margin for error. The Fleet Readiness Center at Jacksonville Naval […]
Tags: Dr. William Rupp, Fleet Readiness Center, Florida Times-Union, JAX Chamber
July 12, 2012
Is the HMO making a comeback?… Gundersen Lutheran Health Plan, based in La Crosse, Wis., applied for and received a certificate to operate its HMO in Fillmore, Houston, Olmsted and Winona counties, becoming the ninth HMO to operate in the state… Asked if Gundersen’s plans represent a competitive threat, a Mayo Clinic spokesperson responded that […]
July 5, 2012
Mayo Goes Shopping for Patients
At Mall of America, the Mayo Clinic is tearing a page from the retail playbook: Get a shopper in for a health consultation and possibly win a patient for life. Through its Healthy Living store and health clinic, Mayo is spreading the word about its growing list of services as it mulls an expansion at […]
June 21, 2012
Mobile Technology Empowers Patients to Know More
On a busy medical floor inside Greenville Memorial Hospital, Dr. Jeffrey Gerac bounces between patients with conditions of every description…So he pulls out his iPad…Physicians at the Mayo Clinic report they can save up to an hour a day using these technologies, said Mark Henderson, division chair for information technology. And with medical knowledge expanding […]
Tags: Dr. Jeffrey Gerac, Greenville News, information technology, iPad, Mark Henderson, mobile technology
June 19, 2012
Medica to Pay Mayo Clinic Based on Patient Health Management
Minnesota nonprofit insurer Medica has created a new arrangement with Mayo Clinic to provide individual members with in-network access to the renowned hospital, which will be paid based on how well it manages certain patients’ health. The one-of-a-kind agreement, which was announced Thursday, seeks to provide high-quality care at competitive prices by adjusting the current […]
Tags: FierceHealthPayer, high-quality care, MedCity News, Medica, patient health
June 18, 2012
US Healthcare Industry Confronts Unrestrained Waste to Cut Costs
There’s a stunning coloured glass Dale Chihuly chandelier worth an estimated $1.2m in one of the hallways. Outside, lush green lawns spread peacefully around elegant white and glass blocks. The state-of-the-art labs are in a hurricane-proof building with huge windows, on the second floor in case of flooding, not in the usual drab basement. The […]
Tags: Dale Chihuly, Dr. William Rupp, Guardian, healthcare costs, medical care
June 11, 2012
Nurses Should Incorporate Palliative Information Early in Oncology Treatment
A nurse-led palliative care intervention for persons newly diagnosed with metastatic cancer improved emotional and mental quality of life (QoL) for those patients. The intervention was carried out by an advanced registered nurse practitioner (ARNP) who had been integrated into the oncology team at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida…Although Mayo Clinic oncologist Gerardo Colon-Otero, […]
Tags: Dr. Gerardo Colon-Otero, metastic cancer, Oncology Nurse Advisor, palliative care
June 8, 2012
Relationship-Based Care, Respecting the Sanctity of the Patient Room is the First Lesson
When a patient enters a hospital, she enters an alien environment. “When I talk to nurses, I tell them ‘We all have busy lives taking care of many patients, but before you walk across the threshold of a patient’s room, pause, take a deep breath, let other things go, and prepare to focus on that […]
Tags: Advance for Nurses, Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, Nursing
June 8, 2012
Leapfrog Issues Hospital Safety Report Cards
A new “Hospital Safety Score” issued by The Leapfrog Group, a non-profit employer-sponsored organization enables anyone with internet access to check out which hospitals are the least, and which ones the most, likely to cause avoidable patient harm. “Though some hospitals surprised us, a good many did not, with highly regarded hospitals earning a safety […]
Tags: Health Leaders Media, Hospital Safety Score, NYU, The Leapfrog Group, Virginia Mason
June 1, 2012
Alternatives to the Nursing Home for Aging or Ailing Parents
In this week’s TIME cover story, “The Long Goodbye” (available to subscribers here), journalist Joe Klein writes about managing the care of his ailing parents, both of whom suffered from dementia, until their deaths last winter eight weeks apart. He spent “five months as a death panel for both my mother and my father,” Klein […]
Tags: dementia, Dr. Gregory Hanson, hospice care, palliative care, TIME