Jul 16, 2018
As we reported last year, Brooklyn’s healthcare infrastructure is undergoing a major transformation as Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, Interfaith Medical Center and Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center unite into one system. The new entity, called One...
Apr 14, 2018
Mental illness/behavioral health challenges are highly common among nursing home residents. Over the past two decades, the number of individuals with mental illness–particularly depression—has increased significantly, and admissions for mental illness now exceed...
Apr 11, 2018
Did you know that, at any given time, one in 25 patients in the U.S. is battling an infection acquired in the hospital? Or that an estimated 720,000 hospital-acquired infections occur every year in the U.S.? In addition to the human costs, hospital-acquired infections...
Jan 12, 2018
How can labor and management collaboration help transform a large healthcare system? We all know that the New York healthcare landscape is encountering many challenges, including closures, consolidations and increased competition. In January 2016, Mount Sinai...
Jan 10, 2018
An energetic group of more than 250 Environmental Services (EVS) workers, EVS managers and infection-control specialists attended a conference in October 2017 to learn about the vital role that EVS staff plays in infection prevention in hospitals and nursing homes....
Jan 10, 2018
Eva James, an RN and 1199SEIU contract administrator for Mount Sinai Beth Israel, walked down the hall at the Brooklyn Marriott with a smile on her face. “The RN Symposium was great,” she said. “I learned so much about how hospitals are shifting to larger healthcare...
