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)
