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A new service provided by hospitals in the northern suburbs of Chicago is intended to offer individuals with mental health illnesses a more calming environment and experience than they might receive in a traditional emergency room. Individuals can come to a “Living Room” and receive immediate care in a crisis situation, provided by staff counselors who have successfully handled their own mental health illnesses.
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Read Tony Jace’s latest entry in the CPI Executive Blog, “Report Reveals One in Four Inpatients Are Restrained in Ontario Care Facilities,” about a report released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information, which reveals startling facts about the use of restraint in Ontario health care facilities.
Read more: Report Reveals One in Four Inpatients Are Restrained in Ontario Care Facilities…
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Read the latest addition to the CPI Article Library, “Workplace Violence as Part of Emergency Preparedness.” Written by CPI president Judith Schubert and published in Hospital News, this article discusses how workplace violence prevention efforts in hospitals should be included as part of an organization’s emergency preparedness plans.
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The RIBA-II robot, manufactured by RIKEN, is designed to lift patients weighing up to 176 pounds from the floor, bed, or chair, and transport them to another location. Modeled to look like a bear, RIBA-II can also recognize voice commands, shake hands, and offer greetings.
Read more: Caregiving Robot Able to Lift and Transport Patients…
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will share money saved through reduction of errors and faulty care with hospitals that improve care in 2012.
The incentive, part of President Obama’s changes to the healthcare system, aims to reduce errors that result in extra Medicare costs and repeated hospital stays.
Read more: Hospitals to Receive Money for Improvements in Care…
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CPI Prepare Training® director of instructor services, Bill Badzmierowski, published an article titled “11 Steps to Better Workplace Violence Prevention Policies” in the April 2011 issue of Campus Safety magazine.
The article discusses how organizational strategies can decrease the frequency and severity of incidents, through assessment, planning, communication, training, and follow-up.
Read more: CPI’s Bill Badzmierowski Publishes Article in Campus Safety Magazine…
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Read CEO Tony Jace’s latest entry in the CPI Executive Blog about how some states are passing laws that consider violent assaults against health care workers to be felonies.
View Assaults in Health Care Are Felonies in Some States in its entirety.
Read more: Read the Latest in the CPI Executive Blog…
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