Across the Board: A Ghent Blog

As Mother's Day approaches, we are turning our focus to how custom whiteboards can help in the labor and delivery unit.

Tomorrow is National Nurses week! Why do nurses deserve so much love? Here are four reasons why everyone should thank a nurse this week!

Earth Day is almost here and we are glad to see that so many people are focusing on helping the environment in any way they can.

The nurses station is the hub where caregiver interaction takes place, patient charts are stored and nurses get a significant amount of work done.

CMS now puts a lot of emphasis on factors other than treatment outcome when distributing Medicare reimbursements, and it is costing hospitals billions of dollars each year.

Hospitals can get the most out of their patient room boards by customizing their content, design and other features.

Hospitals have turned to using design tricks and trends to improve patient health. Now they are turning to similar principles to help themselves in another key area of healthcare: efficiency.

Regulations from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) force hospitals to reduce patient readmissions or risk losing valuable reimbursement funds.

With significant portions of HCAHPS and patient satisfaction scores being based on communication between caregiver and patient, the right communication tool can make all the difference in the reimbursements a hospital receives.