Search Tag: Hospitals
The Cost of Hospital Violence
2017 08 Aug
Healthcare workers are at significant risk for workplace violence. Data shows that between 2011 and 2013, nearly 75 percent of workplace assaults took place in healthcare settings. This is among the risks that hospitals need to plan for.A new report shows that providers spend billions of dollars preparing for and responding to violence both inside and... Read more
Hospital Finance: Managing in the Current Financial Climate
2017 07 May
Alternative financing at hospital level can make a difference.In an environment of budget cuts and increasing pressure on healthcare services how does your hospital cope? In Belgium, and also I think globally, governments and other payers will not be able to keep up with expensive needs, such as an ageing population, personalised medicine, new anti-cancer... Read more
Medicine, Technology and Humanity Intertwined: Rambam Health Care Campus
2016 13 Nov
RAMBAM HEALTH CARE CAMPUS The philosophy at Rambam Health Care is medicine, technology and humanity intertwined. Please explain. Rambam is a very uniquely positioned hospital. It started in 1938 as a hospital for patients, founded by the British mandatory regime, and has grown to be a major academic hospital that includes the Faculty of Medicine of... Read more
Vietnamese Prime Minister honours VK hospital projects
2016 19 Aug
The Vietnamese Prime Minster, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, visited the project sites of Bach Mai 2 and Viet Duc 2 Hospitals in Phu Ly City, Ha Nam Province, last Saturday, 5th August. These two VK designed 1,000 bed hospitals are part of the Vietnamese Ministry of Health’s programme to provide higher quality hospital facilities for the people of Hanoi and northern... Read more
Cardiac Arrest Centres - the Fourth Link
2016 01 Aug
Treatment of cardiac arrest out of hospital has improved over the last few years. Unlike other acute conditions such as trauma few countries have implemented a regional system of cardiac arrest centres.In their review, Eldar Søreide, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Stavanger University Hospital, Norway and Michael Busch, Department... Read more
CMS Hospital Star Ratings Preview
2016 26 Jul
The CMS ratings agency has released information on distribution of star ratings on hospital quality ahead of release of publishing much-anticipated overall ratings. The agency said it hoped to clarify how all kinds of hospitals can show varying quality as shown by star ratings.The CMS also said it hoped to “address any questions or concerns about the... Read more
VK is Building Two 1,000+ Bed Hospitals at Once in Vietnam
2016 08 Jul
VK Architects & Engineers is involved in various large-scale hospital projects as designer or co-designer. The two largest projects however are situated in Vietnam : the construction sites of Bach Mai II and Viet Duc II are in full speed, with just a kilometer in between them. Both hospitals each offer 1,000 beds in 2017.The portfolio of VK Architects... Read more
How to Implement Patient Blood Management Bundles
2016 28 Jun
Guidance on how to implement patient blood management (PBM) in a hospital is provided in an article just published in Transfusion Medicine Reviews.Corresponding author Prof. Dr. Patrick Meybohm (pictured), from the Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany and... Read more