El Camino Hospital’s After-School Program for Interventions and
Resiliency Education® (ASPIRE) program has developed a
consortium with CHOC Children’s, Hoag Memorial Hospital
Presbyterian, and Mission Hospital to expand the availability of
teen mental health services in California. The intensive
outpatient therapy program, now in its eighth year, is designed
for young people ages 13-18 with significant anxiety or
depression or other symptoms related to a mental health
condition. (Business Wire)
The first time Kaiser Permanente Northwest launched an analytic
tool to predict hospital readmission risk, the initiative
flopped. The integrated health system wanted a tool that would
identify high-risk patients before they were discharged so
clinicians could arrange needed follow-up care to prevent
complications.
The El Camino Hospital Board voted unanimously Wednesday night to
buy nearly 16 acres of land in South San Jose, with the goal of
building a third hospital facility.
Expansion into San Jose is an important step in handling a
growing demand for the hospital’s services, King told the board.
Population growth estimates show San Jose’s population is
expected to explode over the next thirty years, increasing by 41
percent by 2040, and many patients who come to El Camino Hospital
already travel long distances from the southern region of the
county. (Mountain View Voice)
El Camino Hospital, Mountain View, Calif., in collaboration with
the PulsePoint Foundation, has launched the second PulsePoint
mobile app, PulsePoint AED, which is designed to build a registry
of public automated external defibrillators (AED) available for
use during cardiac emergencies. Santa Clara County, Calif., is
the first to roll out this new app, which is available for free
download from the iTunes Store and Google Play. (Health
Data Management)
On February 14 residents throughout Santa Clara County will have
the technology available to provide assistance to a person
experiencing a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) who may be in need of
CPR.
According to a release, El Camino Hospital, the fire departments
within Santa Clara County and the PulsePoint Foundation announced
the availability of the PulsePoint mobile phone application to
all of Santa Clara County. (EMS News)
