On any given day, Andrea Braden, MD, must make quick clinical decisions about hospital patients who require emergency care. Her biggest challenge as a hospitalist is “the anxiety around never knowing what is going to come in the door that day,” said Braden, who is also an OB/GYN and lead clinical educator for TeamHealth in … Read more
If anyone can put a positive spin on the end of life, it’s Charles Vialotti, MD, director of Hospice Care at Holy Name Medical Center’s Villa Marie Claire in Bergen County, New Jersey. Violotti, who at the age of 80 lives at the 20-bed Villa Marie Claire to serve its residents full-time, says the hospice … Read more
It reads like the alphabet soup of healthcare: CDI, MRSA, CAUTI, and VAE. Those letters all fall under the category of hospital or healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs), and they can wreak havoc on patient care. On any given day, about 1 in 31 hospital patients has at least one HAI, according to the Centers for Disease … Read more