DHA/Gift of Life Organ Donor Designation
Campaign
The Delaware Healthcare Association and
Gift of Life Program, the region’s leading organ
transplant coordinator, launched their 2012 Organ Donor
Designation Campaign this week to coincide with April as
National Donate Life Month.
Currently, 600 people are waiting for organ transplants
in Delaware. The
goal of the campaign is to get an additional 28,000 Delawareans
to register as organ donors by the end of the year.
Signing up is easy!
Look for various sign-up activities throughout the next nine
months in all Delaware hospitals.
People can also register to become organ donors at
www.donatelife-de.org or at
www.dmv.de.gov
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For additional information, please contact Lisa Schieffert,
Director of Health Policy at (302) 674-2853.
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Delaware
Healthcare Association Launches
Delaware Health Tracker
Web-Based Tool is One-Stop Shop for Accessing Health
Data
The free website,
www.dehealthtracker.com,
is a key resource for community health professionals,
policymakers, researchers, and advocates to address identified
health problems. Website
data is constantly updated from dozens of sources meeting
rigorous criteria for data collection and analysis.
Read the Press Release.
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Delaware Hospitals Offer New
Visitation Guidelines
Delaware's hospitals have collectively agreed to new
visitation guidelines to protect patients, their loved
ones and health care workers from both seasonal
and H1N1 flu. Many states nationwide are
implementing new temporary visitation guidelines as a
result of increasing concern over containing the spread
of both seasonal and H1N1 flu. To read the
press release,
click here.
Links to individual hospital's visitation guidelines,
click here.
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Community Benefit Report
Delaware’s Hospitals Major Contributor to
Health, Prosperity of State
Member Hospitals Contributed Healthcare
and Healthy Living Initiatives Valued at Over $357 Million
18,000 Jobs at an Average Salary of $59,343
$192 Million in Taxes
Paid
Delaware’s hospitals have a tremendous impact on the healthcare
and economy of the State.
Their contributions to Delaware’s quality of life were recently
quantified in the Delaware Healthcare Association’s
Community Benefits Annual Report.
The report details
financial and programmatic data for Fiscal Year 2010.
Read
the press release.
Read the report.
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Delaware Hospitals Adopt Common Color
Wrist Bands
As part of a mission to ensure patient safety during hospital
visits, the Delaware Healthcare Association announced
implementation of a voluntary initiative among Delaware
hospitals to standardize the use of color-coded patient
wristbands. All Delaware acute care hospitals have adopted
the following colors and meanings to convey specific information
to physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals about
patient care:
- Red for patient allergies.
- Yellow for fall risk. and
- Purple for patient's do-not-resuscitate preferences.
To read more about this initiative,
click here.
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Delaware Hospitals Reach 100% Participation
in DHIN
The Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN), Delaware's
statewide health information exchange, announced 100% full
participation of all Delaware acute care hospitals in DHIN. What
does this mean for your practice or facility? This means that
DHIN practices and providers will soon be able to retrieve
results and reports from all Delaware hospitals, making for
a more complete patient health record. Read the
official press release.
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Delaware Hospital
Quality Web Site
Delaware's hospitals have developed a web site to
assist consumers in finding quality indicator information on
Delaware's hospitals.
These are the same indicators reported to the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), but our site shows all of
Delaware's hospitals data.
Click here to learn about the Delaware Hospital Quality Web Site.
Click here
for other sources of information on Delaware's Hospitals and
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Delaware is Fifth State to Implement
Inclusive Statewide Pediatric System
Delaware’s Division of Public Health (DPH) announces the
completion December 30, 2011 of the initial phase of
development of Delaware’s Statewide Pediatric System
through recognition of Delaware’s hospitals as Pediatric
Emergency Care Facilities. According to the EMSC National Resource Center, Delaware is only
the fifth state in the nation to successfully implement
the Pediatric Emergency Care Facility Recognition
Program.
Read the press release.
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2012 Federal Poverty
Guidelines
Published in the Federal Register on January 26, 2012.
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-01-26/pdf/2012-1603.pdf |
DMMA Overview of The Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act in Delaware
Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance (DMMA) Overview of
implementation timeline of The Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act. This
slide show
was presented by DMMA Director Rosanne Maheney at the Delaware
Health Care Commission on September 2, 2010. It gives a
timeline of when the major pieces of health reform involving
Medicaid become operational in Delaware.
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