153 Hospital Workers Fired Or Resigned After Refusing To Be Vaccinated Against COVID-19

 Hospital Workers Fired, Resign Over Vaccine Policy by Carolyn Crist.  WebMD.  June 23, 2021.  

Establishing Identity Of Unknown Patients

How Hospital ER Sleuths Race to Identify An Unconscious Or Dazed Jane Or John Doe by Susan Abram.  NPR.  May 7, 2019. 

Resistant Fungi Posing Threat To Health Care

A Mysterious Infection, Spanning The Globe In A Climate Of Secrecy by Matt Richtel And Andrew Jacobs.  The New York Times.  April 6, 2019. 

Hospital Siege Offers Counterterrorism Lessons

Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Siege Offers Counterterrorism Lessons by Al Baker.  New York Times.  August 24, 2017. 

Safety Ratings Of Georgia Hospitals

Georgia Slips Lower In Leapfrog Ratings On Hospital Safety http://www.georgiahealthnews.com/2017/04/georgia-slips-leapfrog-ratings-hospital-safety/by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News. 

Five Ways To Reduce Hospital Diagnosis Errors

Five Ways To Reduce Inpatient Diagnosis Errors by HealthLeaders Media Staff.  MedPageToday.  October 30, 2016

Hospital At Home Found Appropriate For Some, Faces challenges Including Physician Staffing

Hospital At Home Model:  Bringing Hospital-Level Care To the Patient by Sarah Klein, Martha Hostettler, And Douglas McCarthy.  The Commonwealth Fund.  August 22, 2016

Woman Forced From Florida Hospital Dies In Parking Lot: Many Issues In Patient Care

Recordings Add Detail In Death Of Woman Forced From Florida Hospital by Christine Hauser.  The New York Times.  January 7, 2016

Comparative Analysis: Home Versus Hospital Births

As Home Births Grow In U.S., A New Study Examines The Risks by Pam Belluck.  The New York Times.  December 30, 2015. 

Environmentally Sustainable Healthcare Is The Subject Of New Book

Book Review:  "Greening Health Care" By Kathy Gerwig. The Wall Street Journal.  September 23, 2014.

Creating A Healing Hospital Environment Thru Art

More Hospitals Use The Healing Powers Of Public Art by Laura Landro.  The Wall Street Journal.  August 18, 2014.

Sustained Care Program Effective In Help Hospital Discharged Patients To Quit Smoking

Extended Support Help Patients Stay Smoke-Free After Hospital Discharge.  Medical Xpress.  August 19, 2014.

Climate-Change Prediction: Heat-Related Deaths In The Southeast Will Probably Double Over The Next Quarter-Century

Taking Effective Action Against The Unstoppable by Eduardo Porter.  The New York Times.  June 24, 2014.

Hand Sanitizer At Every Point Of Care Lacking In 20% Of Hospitals

1-In-5 Hospitals Don't Make Hand Sanitizer Available.  UPI.  February 28, 2014.

The study looked at compliance with the World Health Organization hand hygiene guidelines.

Hospital Design and Signage Often Impede "Wayfinding," Increase Stress

A Cure For Hospital Design by Laura Landro.  Te Wall Strteet Journal.  February 3, 2014.

(1)  Many hospitals are borrowing strategies from __________________ to make it easier for people to get around--a process design experts call ______________.

(2)  Confusing layouts can result from years of _________________________________________.

(3)  "Progressive disclosure" means giving patients only_______________________________.

Robots Zap Hospital Germs With Ultraviolet Rays

Fighting Infectious Disease The Modern Way.  Science Daily.  June 21, 2013.

(1)  According to studies the robots eliminate (C. diff) Clostridium difficile in ________________ and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) in ________________.

(2)  Hospital infections are linked to approximately __________ deaths each year and add as much as ______________ in medical costs.

Hospitals Talk Cost Control; Reward Volume And Profit With Bonuses

Hospital CEO Bonuses Reward Volume and Growth by Jay Hancock.  Kaiser Health News.  June 18, 2013.

(1)  How does hospital CEOs employment contracts and bonus packages under measures in the the 2010 health law that aim to cut unnecessary treatment and control costs?

(2)  Some studies have estimated that _________ percent of what is spent on U.S. health care is unnecessary.

(3)  How do hospital CEOs dispute the notion that profit is the CEO's sole focus?

(4)  As health care takes up larger portions of the economy, it consumes ________________________________________________.

Disinfecting All ICU Patients More Effective Than Testing/Targeting Only Carriers

Intensive-Care Patients Need Treatment To Stop Deadly Bug by Michelle Fay Cortez.  Bloomberg.  May 30, 2013.

Read the above article and test and improve your retention by taking the following quiz.  You might want to read the quiz before reading the article to focus your attention.  Motivated reading is the best reading.

(1)  According to the research recounted here, testing and targeting for a superbug is __________
as _______________ all intensive-care patients.

(2)  Bathing every patient with ______________ and using a _______________ for five days to kill reservoirs in _________ reduced infection rates ________ percent.

(3)  This research answers one long-debated question which is _________________________.

(4)  What action by the U.S. government has increased the importance of infection control?

(5)  Each MRSA infection can boost costs by $_________________.

(6)  This study was carried out at _______ hospitals which account for about ______ percent of all inpatient care in the U.S.

(7)  One expert cited in the article said the findings should result in repeal of ________________.

(8)  The practice advocated here would curb the practice of patient ________ which is viewed as "unfriendly."

(9)  A possible danger of using universal use of mipirocin is _____________________.

Microbial Communities In A Newly Built Hospital

Patients Leave A Microbial Mark On Hospitals by Beth Mole.  Nature.  May 23, 2013.

What Is The Research Question and Why Is It Important?  The Hospital Microbiome Project

Microbial Populations In A Hospital Under Construction.  The Hospital Microbiome Project.  October 17, 2012.

Mapping the Great Indoors by Peter Andrey Smith.  The

The article and the two excerpts from The Hospital Microbiome Project recount an effort to "monitor the microbial ecosystem of a new University of Chicago hospital to see how microbes pathogens travel through its halls."

The New York Times article contains a significant section about The Hospital Microbiome Project and is well worth a read.

Read the following questions before or after reading the article to (1) give your reading sharper focus and (2)  increase recall and improve and retention.

Nature article:

(1)  By the end of the year when sampling for the Project ends scientists expect to collect more than ____________ samples.

(2)  The researchers found that around ____________ types of microbe moved in during hospital construction. 

(3)  During construction microbes moved in, transported by ______________________________>

(4)  Microbes from long-term patients lingered _______________ and after their rooms __________.

(5)  The research team found _________ lingering pathogens.

(6)  A rationale for this study is that roughly _________ million hospital-associated infections are reported each year.

Section of The Hospital Microbiome:  What is the research question and why is it important?

(1)  Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) are the _________ leading cause of death ahead of diabetes, influenza/pneumonia, and Alzheimer's

New York Times article.

(1)  The Director of the University of Oregon's Biology and Built Environment Center  said that she expects buildings to eventually ________________________________________

Federal Medical Center Provides Boston Marathon Suspect Care While In Custody

Tsarnaev Is Getting Care And High Security by Christopher Weaver.  The Wall Street Journal.  April 28, 2013.

Article provides an overview of health care in one of the six Federal Medical Centers.  The staff are all trained correction officers in addition to being medical professionals.