The healthcare scenario is ever-changing and successful healthcare institutes focus on providing their patients with the best in class services along with the best medical care. They constantly re-evaluate their business and take regular feedback from their existing and past customers and make relevant changes.

There are however certain ‘must haves’ that make a hospital the best hospital. It’s generally not only the expertise and the skill levels of the doctors on-board, but a cumulative ‘feel’ of the overall administration, services and the care that the patients receive from these healthcare institutes. Successful hospitals majorly focus on delivering high quality, low cost and highly reliable patient care.

Here are a few factors that make a hospital the best hospital:

Seamless coordination between the departments

Usually, healthcare organizations have various specialties that form various departments in the hospital. For example, there will be a separate department for cancer care, a separate one for heart ailments and a different department for neurology. Well, apart from this, there is a set of people that handle administrative tasks and the support staff as well. Unless there is coordination among all these departments, it’s highly impossible to provide customers with the level of service that they expect. This means that the hospitals tagged as the best have all these departments seamlessly functioning under one roof and there are no glitches while transferring the patient from one department to another.

Embracing technology

Embracing technology is the only way to progress. The most successful hospitals ensure that they leverage from the modern technological equipment and use them to give their patients the best possible results. Having an open mind and welcoming new technological developments in the field of medicine is the key to success.

Transparent pricing

No one likes surprises when it comes to payment of hospital …

Food safety is one issue that we should always keep top-of-mind. Here are a few basic guidelines to remember during this season of the noshes, nibbles, buffets, potlucks, and office parties that are key to food safety.

Wash Your Hands

Hand washing is essential. Hand washing in warm soapy water will eliminate many of the culprits that can cause food-borne illnesses as well as the common cold and flu. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics recommends washing your hands for at least 20 seconds before and after preparing food. Not sure how long 20 seconds is? If you sing or hum two verses of “Happy Birthday,” as you soap up, that should add up to the required amount of time you need to spend in the suds.

 

Safe Food Handling

In handling uncooked meat, fish and seafood take care to not splash or spatter any juices from the food onto other items in your food preparation area. In being careful to avoid spatter, you can limit the chances of cross-contamination. Cross-contamination occurs when uncooked protein food juices i.e. meat, fish or poultry are splashed onto the cutting board or colander where you will place produce; this will cross-contaminate and may create conditions that will cause a food-borne illness.

Produce

If purchasing pre-packaged salad greens, they have been washed in chlorinated water during processing. However if purchasing loose, unbagged greens, they should be rinsed in tepid or lukewarm water.

Fruits with rinds such as melons, oranges and pineapple should be washed before using to prevent any bacteria on the outside from being transferred to the inside when you cut into the fruit. Sturdy fruits and vegetables should be scrubbed lightly with a produce brush.

Keep Hot Foods Hot & Cold Food Cold

By keeping foods at the appropriate temperatures, you …

You are tired of changing the bed sheets every morning. Will your child get out of this habit? Do you need to take him to the doctor? Are you completely confused with what to do? If your child is 5 to 10 years of age there are still chances of him getting out of this habit. However, in case your child has turned a teenager, it is a matter of concern for both of you. We recommend that you consult a doctor to rule out any medical concerns. But, before you go ahead and spend hundreds of dollars in your child’s treatment, you can try out the “lifting technique” mentioned here. Today, we are going to discuss both the positives and negatives of this technique. Read on to know more:

What is the lifting technique?

It is a quite simple technique where one hardly has to spend any money. Few hours after your child has gone to bed, wake him up and take them to the washroom to pee. We recommend that you follow this technique at 10pm every night. This will ensure that he does not wet his bed in the middle of the night.

How to stop bedwetting? OR Is it a solution to look forward to?

It is important to note here that the lifting technique is not a solution in itself. This technique will not instruct the brain to stop bed wetting. But yes, it will instruct the brain to get up in the middle of the night to pee. And when this technique is carried out for a prolonged period of time, your child will stop the urge to wet the bed.

There may be times when your child has stopped bed wetting but then his habit lapses and he starts to wet the bed …