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Partnership Matters

Brought to you by the Labor Management Project, Partnership Matters gathers news about best practices, training opportunities, reports and more to help you keep up with the latest trends in health care delivery and labor-management partnerships.

 

Protecting Workers from Workplace Violence in the ED

Protecting Workers from Workplace Violence in the ED

Emergency department (ED) workers are frequently targets of violence.  One recent study showed that 55 percent of ED nurses experienced physical violence and/or verbal abuse from a patient or a visitor over a single one-week period. PCTs, security, technologists,...

Hourly Rounding: An Emergency Department Best Practice

Hourly Rounding: An Emergency Department Best Practice

A visit to a hospital emergency department (ED) can be frightening, overwhelming, and confusing. Helping patients navigate the experience and providing them timely information can improve the patient experience. More than half of inpatients enter the hospital via the...

Emergency Department Overcrowding

Emergency Department Overcrowding

Is your emergency department overcrowded? Are people leaving without being seen? Are patients who have been admitted being boarded in the ED, awaiting beds? Do patients repeatedly return to the ED for healthcare? Overcrowding in hospital emergency departments is a...

Collaborating to Transform Ambulatory Care At Brookdale

Collaborating to Transform Ambulatory Care At Brookdale

“Ambulatory care has a primary role in keeping people healthy so that they don’t need to go to the hospital,” said 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers’ East Executive Vice President Joyce Neil to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center’s new ambulatory care...

A Day of Learning for 1199SEIU Healthcare Workers East Nurses

A Day of Learning for 1199SEIU Healthcare Workers East Nurses

Mark your calendar for the ninth annual RN Symposium, “Nurses, Leading with Hearts and Minds,” a day of sharing knowledge about industry trends and how they are affecting your job. The symposium will be held on Tuesday, November 27, 2018, at the Marriott Brooklyn...

Preventable Hospitalizations Decline Under DSRIP

Preventable Hospitalizations Decline Under DSRIP

Aimed at restructuring New York’s healthcare system to reduce avoidable hospital use by 25 percent over five years, the Delivery System Reform Incentive Program (DSRIP) has shown measurable progress. At the close of DSRIP’s third year, preventable readmissions were...

Improving Retention by Empowering CNAs

Improving Retention by Empowering CNAs

Turnover among Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) in nursing homes is an enormous problem, with estimates of annual turnover ranging from 42 percent to an astounding 86 percent. CNA turnover has been linked to diminished quality of care, resident behavioral problems...

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