Peninsula Regional Medical Center has been recognized for a fifth consecutive year as one of the Nation’s Most Wired hospitals, according to the results of the 2014 Most Wired Survey released in the July issue of the American Hospital Association’s Hospitals & Health Networks magazine. PRMC has been honored by the magazine with a Most Wired Award or Most Improved Hospital Award seven times in the 16 years of the survey.
Peninsula Regional was one of 375 United States hospitals to earn the 2014 distinction, and joins Nemours Hospitals in Wilmington, Delaware as the only recipients on the Delmarva Peninsula. Just six Maryland hospitals were presented with the honor this year.
PRMC was recognized for the acquisition, deployment, effective and often innovative use of information technology as a foundational element in the delivery of high quality and safe care to its patients. Those include statewide electronic initiatives to share health information and best practice solutions, using information technology ─ like PRMC’s Modified Early Warning System ─ to assess patient conditions, using a computerized medication entry and patient order system by physicians to reduce errors, and securely linking patients and providers with medical histories and medication records using online services like PRMC’s MyPenCare.org.
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Who cares that don't mean there doing a good job. That means they spent a lot of money on equip.
ReplyDeleteThere they go honking their own horn, again. It certainly does not mean it's a good place to work or that they are doing a good job.
ReplyDeleteThey have the worse heart program in America. They used to be the best. My friend wife died while getting a process to see if she had a blockage.
ReplyDeleteThe heart doctor that was present said he was restricted to operate at PRMC.
Technology over medical care? I don't think so!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteNo nurses , no doctors , just a PA now and then and a CNA to change bedpans.
All of these technological advances provide for patient safety. PRMC has been a leader in the state for over a decade with patient record systems that UMMC and Hopkins are just catching up to. This honor is not self promotion and if readers are interested this comment comes from a bedside RN not an administrator.
ReplyDeleteAgreed that this doesn't mean much.
ReplyDeleteThat's not PRMC's fault though.
They are doing what Uncle Sam says. They are complying with Meaningless Use (what CMS calls Meaningful Use).
Look it up & spend some time learning about it. You will see why the hospital and provider across the country are spending less & less patient care time and more & more time with their face in a computer "checking off the boxes". They are forced into this stuff. So in reality, they are doing an excellent job doing what they are told by Obamacare. So don't blame them. If they spent more time caring for you, paying attention to you, having the appropriate number of FTE's, the best technology available, and not paying attention to their required bullet points they need to achieve / check off, they would be penalized by the government. No dog in the fight here ........ just sayin' it like it is people.
No doubt in my mind PRMC was named most wired in order to bring the unwired out of woodwork to make vile comments -
ReplyDeletePiss poor leadership + no accountability because so few doctors actually work for PRMC = a nightmare on Carroll Street.
ReplyDeleteGet on a stepladder and peek above the ceiling tiles in the old section. You will choose another hospital after that view!
ReplyDeleteHas anyone noticed that PRMC is not so silently sucking up every health care outlet in this area???? Very soon, if not already, you will not be able to make a choice...it will ALL be PRMC. I do not like this and I am wondering if there is some way to point out that there is a monopoly going on here?
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