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Provider- - PHA Hospital Guides for Healthcare Workers & Consumers

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GaHospitalQualityCheck.org - HOSPITAL QUALITY:

  • Current quality and pricing information about the hospitals in your area
  • Information for you to ask the right kind of questions at a doctors visit or hospital stay.
  • Quality programs and studies Georgia hospitals have taken on.
    • Georgia hospitals' studies and programs:
      • To improve patient safety
      • To improve quality of health care delivered to people all over the state of Georgia.

GaHospitalPriceCheck.org - HOSPITAL PRICING

  • Will guide you through hospital pricing information
    • Basic Search - Check charges and information for about 64 types of conditions
    • Advanced Search - Information about all types of hospital stays in Georgia
    • Compare Hospitals - choose up to 3 hospitals in Georgia to compare charges for a certain type of condition or hospital stay
  • Help you plan for a hospital stay no matter what type of insurance you may have.

Please click one of the buttons above to learn more about quality and pricing for your Georgia Hospital:

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Provider- PHA's State of the Health of Georgia

2008 State of the Health of Georgia

The State of the Health of Georgia Report provides updated population based information where data is available for specific indicators. This information is provided to support policymakers in making data-driven decisions regarding the direction of health services at the state and local levels by highlighting areas of need and providing a mechanism to monitor future improvements in the health of Georgia's citizens.

Full Report (printable version)

Section by Section:

For earlier years, please contact pha@gha.org

Provider - PHA Newsletters

PHA Weekly News - A condensed weekly email publication containing information bytes, newsworthy items and resource links specific to Georgia Hospitals and initiatives for Georgia Hosptials.

 

For 2009 editions, click here

For more information or for earlier editions, please contact at: pha@gha.org

Provider - Safety Alerts

Please share the following safety alerts with your staff to prevent the same error from occurring in your facility. We would also love to hear from you! Do you have any processes or practices you have incorporated to prevent this error or to reduce the risk of this type of error from occurring? Please send anything that you have done to pha@gha.org or fax it to the PHA Peer Review Protected number: 770-249-4591.

Click to here access the Safety Alert Resource Page

Upcoming Meetings - None at this time

To share a safety alert with other facilties, please click here to fill out our online authorization form.

To view Safety Alerts published by The Joint Commission, please click here

2008

2007

Errors:

Cognitive Errors

Medication Reconciliation

Rapid Response Teams

Rapid Response Team Safety Alert

Correct Site Surgery

Correct Level Spinal Surgery

2004:

2003:

THANKS to the staff member who reported the near miss to us!  Your action not only saved your patient from potential harm but, it may also save many other patients from the same error happening to them.

PHA - Consumer Brochure

PHA - Video: Discussing Unanticipated Outcomes

By clicking the links below, you should be able to view the instructional video “Discussing Unanticipated Outcomes and Disclosing Medical Errors” free of charge with RealPlayer Software. The video lasts 55 minutes.

If you do not have RealPlayer, please click here to download.

View This Video - Please click here to view the video. This is not recommended for download without a T-1 Line.

If you would like a copy, please contact Michelle Sprouse at: msprouse@gha.org
To order a VHS or CD version, the cost is $25, including shipping.

This video is one of the products of grant #1U18HS11918-01 that was awarded to the Georgia Hospital Association Research and Education Foundation by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in 2001. The video was written and directed by Dr. John Banja, an Associate Professor at Emory University’s Center for Ethics.
The video consists of two parts. Part One features a panel discussion of three clinical vignettes involving medical error. The panel is comprised of a medical ethicist, John Banja, a hospital risk manager, Susan Nemchik, and two healthcare attorneys, Temple Sellers and Jack Schroder. Part Two of the tape presents a host of empathic communication techniques that can be useful to health professionals when they conduct “bad news” conversations.
The suggestions offered throughout the video are intended as recommendations only and not as standards of care. The video is copyrighted by the Georgia Hospital Association Research and Education Foundation and is not intended for commercial distribution.

Thank you for your interest.

If you have any additional questions regarding the video or the download of the video, please contact us at: pha@gha.org

For additional resources for apologies and disclosure of medical errors, Visit the American College of Physician Exceutives resource web page.

 

 

 

 

 

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