September 2017 • Vol. 2017 No. 5
BECKER'S
Infection Control & Clinical Quality
Becker's Hospital Review
6
th
Annual CEO + CFO
Roundtable
November 13-15, 2017
Westin Michigan Avenue | Chicago, Illinois
112 Great Health System Executives Speaking with 122 Speakers Total
67 CEOs and 26 CFOs from Great Hospitals and Health Systems Speaking
To learn more & register, visit:
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SAVE THE DATE
Inside The
Issue
Swedish Health CEO Dr.
Guy Hudson Overhauls
Concurrent Surgery Policy
p. 8
Physicians Rarely Clean
Stethoscopes Between
Patients, Study Finds
p. 10
Patients See Empathetic
Physicians as More
Competent
p. 20
6 Findings on Antibiotic
Stewardship Programs at
US Hospitals
p. 29
CMS to Punish More Than
2.5k Hospitals for 30-Day
Readmissions: 7 Things to
Know
p. 34
How Hospitals Can Fight
the Opioid Epidemic and
More: 5 Qs With Former
White House 'Drug Czar'
Michael Botticelli
p. 44
A New Warrior in the
Sepsis Fight: Dedicated
Sepsis Nurses
Orange City, Calif.-based St. Joseph Hoag
Health was one of the first systems to
implement dedicated sepsis nurses at its
hospitals in 2015. Now, other hospitals
are joining the trend and appointing
nurses whose sole responsibility is to
monitor and care for patients at risk of
acquiring the deadly infection.
Why Hospitals Need Standards
for Reporting Quality Measures:
5 Thoughts From Dr. Peter
Pronovost and Colleagues
Peter Pronovost, MD, senior vice president with
Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine and
director of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety
and Quality, believes healthcare providers lack
crucial standards to ensure accurate and consistent
self-reporting of quality data.
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Lucile Packard Children's
Hospital Stanford will open a five-story, $1.1 billion
pediatric and obstetric facility in December. e
facility, which will double the hospital's current size, is
poised to transform the patient experience through its
family-centered design and innovative technologies,
according to Christine Cunningham, director of the
office of patient experience at Packard Children's.
See the full story on page 18
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Lucile Packard Children's Head of Patient
Experience Answers 5 Q's on $1.1B Patient-
Centered Expansion
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