This is Randy Homan with Becker's Clinical Leadership Podcast.
Here's your daily industry news brief for May 3rd. First,
the Leapfrog Group released its spring safety grades. Today,
20 hospitals have received consecutive a safety grades since 2012.
Leapfrog assigns letter grades to almost 3000 acute general hospitals every
fall and spring.
It evaluates the hospital's performance on 22 cms.
Patient safety measures the Leapfrog Hospital survey,
as well as other supplemental sources.
These safety grades are the only hospital ratings program that is solely based
on the hospital's ability to protect patients from preventable errors,
accidents, injuries, and infections.
20 hospitals achieved consecutive A grades and less than 1% of hospitals were
given an F. For the full list. Please visit Becker Hospital review.com.
Second, new data from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Shows.
Enrollment in BSN programs fell 1.4% last year.
This ends a 20 year period of growing enrollment.
The AACN conducts a national survey of nursing schools with BSN in higher
degrees on a yearly basis. Over 900 schools responded to the survey in the fall.
Enrollment in both masters and PhD programs also decreased.
Third, Jefferson Health in Philadelphia will acute care general surgery and
emergency services. At Einstein Medical Center,
Elkins Park convert the facility into a physical rehabilitation provider.
The hospital has about 1000 employees.
Over 100 will be affected by the changes.
The system's goal is to retain all affected employees. Fourth,
yesterday,
the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled to overturn a lower court order that required
Aurora Healthcare to administer Ivermectin to a Covid-19 patient.
The six one ruling states that the Circuit Court erroneously exercised its
discretion. The Circuit Court did not cite any statute, case or other law.
The lawsuit stems from an incident last year at a Wisconsin Hospital.
Patient was forced to be intubated.
The patient's nephew asked physicians to give his Uncle Ivermectin experts say,
this treatment is ineffective against Covid-19. Physicians refused,
and the nephew sued the hospital.
The patient eventually recovered and was discharged.
The Waukesha County Circuit Court initially ordered the hospital to administer
Ivermectin.
It then altered the order to require the nephew to find an outside credentialed
physician to come to the hospital to provide the drug. Thanks for listening.
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