••WHAT’S NEW for August

• Fresh SPHCC
  • Guests & Visitors – We welcome you to this Highlights section of our newsletter. As you will see below, it contains a listing of our recommended readings.  Starting this month, you will also see enhancement of our Downloads section to also include some of the useful links that were previously reserved for members. Although it is only an extract of the full newsletter, we hope you find it useful. 
    
  • Members: Full Text Articles – Finally here!  We are very pleased and excited to announce that our Premium Members (PM) can now obtain full text copies of all of our reviewed articles. Please contact your hospital’s Primary Representative (as listed in your hospital profile) for the username (U) and password (P) you will need. In this  Highlights section, click on the special link, Ftxt and you will be taken to the download web page for the indicated article.   Click ‘Sign-in’ in the upper right-hand corner of that page.  Enter your U, P and download the article.   If you would first like to read our review, log on to your Custom Resource Page (CRP) and select Current Newsletter in your Member Content Panel.  Find the article you want in the Reviews section.  Once you have read the review, just click on the title at the top of any article and follow the steps indicated above.  Even if our summarized review of the article is sufficient, you may still want to download the article for one of the tables, charts, sidebars or forms that we sometimes clue you in to. You will only need to log into the publisher site one time per session to download as many articles as you like.  “Thanks” again for giving us the idea and being patient while we worked it out.
    

• Reading Tips Newsletter (RTN):
  
• Tip#8: To read or not to read??? – For our Premium Members (PM), the real question is what to read first?  Now, with the convenience of quick, full text access, it may be tempting to go directly to the full source article.  If you would like your reading time to be used as efficiently as possible, however, we would still suggest you at least scan through our summarized review first.  This will help you decide if the article is worth the investment of more time.  It will also provide you with a framework of key points to speed your reading while facilitating greater comprehension.  It is like priming your mental pump.
  

••RECOMMENDED READING:

• PR: Customer Feedback Helps Improve Survey Experience Ftxt [Pearl: JCSC, LDR]
• TS: Patient Flow Success Stories, Part 3 of 3 Ftxt [FYI: GB, LDR, MD, RN]
• TS: Tracer Methodology 101: Medication Management Tracer…[®] Ftxt [REF: MD, P&T, Phrm, RN]
• TS: CJCP™: Focus on Information Management[®] Ftxt [Pearl: CJCP, IM, JCSC, MD]
• CMS: Organ Procurement Organizations (OPO) Agreements with Hospitals (S&C:13-48-OPO)
  

••USEFUL LINKS & DOWNLOADS:

• Speak Up: What You Should Know About Adult Depression – Brochure – Poster (Includes warning signs) [FYI: PtEd, StEd]
  
• Guide to Patient & Family Engagement in Hospital Quality & Safety (evidence-based resource to help hospitals work as partners with patients and families to improve quality and safety)  [REF: LDR, MD, PtEd,RN, SFT]
• Compliance tips for most scored Life Safety requirements[®] [REF: EOC/E&M, SFT]
• Joint Commission Podcasts (Free) – Take 5 series of 9 brief, informal discussions on topics such as Robust Process Improvement (RPI), Screening For Depression, Pt-Centered Communication and more. [Pearl: CJCP, IM, JCSC, MD]
• Core Measure Solution Exchange (a database of success stories from accredited hospitals)
• OSHA and Work Safety: Green and Clean – How hospitals can protect patients and workers by using earth-friendly and sustainable products/practices & Worker Safety – Environment of Care® News, January 2013, Volume 16, Issue 1
• CMS: Organ Procurement Organizations (OPO) Agreements with Hospitals (S&C:13-48-OPO)
  
• Physician Leader Monthly (PLM) – June