MARCH
28, 2010
Men
in the Emergency Room
A new study
conducted by Men’s Health Magazine (April 2010) shows that
more than 41 million men will wind up in the emergency room this
year. One third of those men say that hospitals scare them, and
nearly 800,000 will stop waiting and leave the hospital without
being treated.
Those are some
big numbers. When you add in the fact that the average man spends
almost an hour in the waiting room before they are seen, it makes
sense that our nation’s emergency departments are full of
tired and emotional would-be patients and their families.
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MARCH
25, 2010
Helping
Employees and Patients Find Balance In Life
The following
is a quote from one of our favorite books, Hospital, in
which Dr. Jay Cooper, Chairman of Radiation Oncology & Director
of the Maimonides Cancer Center in Brooklyn, shares his dream for
the quality of life for his patients he treats:
"I want
a system where we say, 'We know you have two kids at home who
don't understand why mom isn't home making dinner. Tell us what
you want tomorrow for dinner, and we'll arrange to have some restaurant
to deliver it in take-out containers, and we'll put it in your
trunk. Bring in your laundry, and we'll arrange for it to be dry-cleaned,
and then it will back in your car when you go home. You need your
car inspected by the Department of Motor Vehicles? Leave it with
us, and we'll have the local service station inspect it, and bring
the car back for you.'"
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MARCH
23, 2010
Benefiting
From the Healthcare Bill
With the passage
of the Healthcare bill, hospitals must rethink the favorable and
unfavorable effects of 32 million new paying customers. Although
some press releases paint a happy tale for competition and rightsizing
the hospital payer mix, Illinois nonprofit hospitals will struggle
in other ways.
More insured
patients only exacerbate a nonprofit hospital's charitable services
reporting problem. Last week, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled against
Provena since it was determined that Provena's level of charitable
writeoff was inconsistent with the Court's opinion of how much is
enough.
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MARCH
19, 2010
Lightening
the Burden for Nonprofit Hospitals Tracking Charitable Contributions:
Illinois Supreme Court Challenging Non-profit Status
Nonprofit hospitals
are under pressure from all angles, and the Illinois Supreme Court
has made it even more difficult: Nonprofit hospitals must provide
"an adequate amount of charity care to patients or risk losing
significant tax exemptions". An Illinois Supreme Court decision
March 18, 2010, puts non-profit hospitals on notice that they must
provide an adequate amount of charity care to patients or risk losing
significant tax exemptions.
Errand Solutions
supports a great number of non-profit hospitals across nine states
including Illinois. Our proprietary case management system tracks
every single interaction with patients and guests, providing our
hospitals with critical data to track non-clinical charitable services.
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