NOODLES & COMPANY CELEBRATES NATIONAL NOODLE DAY
Company Offers Free Wisconsin Mac & Cheese With Purchase Of Entree
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WHO: Noodles & Company, serving classic noodle and pasta dishes from around the world, announced it will celebrate National Noodle day on Thursday, October 6, by offering guests a free small bowl of Wisconsin Mac & Cheese with the purchase of a regular entree.
WHAT: Noodles & Company is celebrating National Noodle Day by offering guests one small, complimentary bowl of Wisconsin Mac & Cheese with the purchase of a regular entree.
Each guest who dines at Noodles & Company on National Noodle Day will also receive a buy-one-get-one (BOGO) coupon usable during a return visit in the coming weeks to enjoy one of three, NEW limited time mac & cheese menu items debuting on October 12: Bacon Mac & Cheeseburger, BBQ Pork Mac & Cheese or Buffalo Chicken Mac & Cheese.
One free small bowl of Wisconsin Mac & Cheese and one BOGO coupon will be provided per guest for every regular entrée purchase at participating Noodles & Company locations.
WHEN: National Noodle Day takes place on Thursday, October 6. This offer is only valid on Thursday, October 6.
WHERE: Participating Noodles & Company locations nationwide.
CONTACT: ICR
noodles@icrinc.com / 646.277.1269
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Hospital Improvement Innovation Networks to continue patient safety improvement efforts started under the Partnership for Patients initiative
Salt Lake City, Utah – October 4, 2016 – HealthInsight, a private, nonprofit, community-based organization dedicated to improving health and health care, has been selected as one of 16 organizations across the country to continue working with hospitals to reduce preventable hospital-acquired conditions and readmissions. The Hospital Improvement Innovation Network (HIIN) contracts awarded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will build on the momentum of the CMS-funded Hospital Engagement Networks and Quality Improvement Organizations to further reduce patient harm and readmissions. This announcement is part of a broader effort to transform our health care system into one that works better for the American people and for the Medicare program.
HealthInsight, the Quality Innovation Network‒Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) serving Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon and Utah, has worked with hospitals in its region for many years to improve patient safety, both as a QIN-QIO and through the CMS Partnership for Patients initiative.
“We are proud to have been selected to help lead this national effort to keep improving patient care in the hospital setting,” said Marc Bennett, president and CEO of HealthInsight. “We’re eager to build on our successful QIN-QIO work by engaging with hospitals, providers and caregiver communities in our region to implement and spread best practices to achieve our quality goals.”
Through 2019, the Hospital Improvement Innovation Networks will work to achieve a 20 percent decrease in overall patient harm and a 12 percent reduction in 30-day hospital readmissions as a population-based measure (readmissions per 1,000 people) from the 2014 baseline. Addressing health equity for Medicare beneficiaries and incorporating person and family engagement in health care will be central to these efforts. CMS will monitor and evaluate Hospital Improvement Innovation Network activities to ensure that they are generating positive results and improving patient safety.
“We have made significant progress in keeping patients safe—an estimated 2.1 million fewer patients harmed, 87,000 lives saved and nearly $20 billion in cost-savings from 2010 to 2014—and we are focused on accelerating improvement efforts,” said Patrick Conway, MD, CMS acting principal deputy administrator and chief medical officer. “The work of the Hospital Improvement Innovation Networks will allow us to continue to improve health care safety across the nation and reduce readmissions at a national scale – keeping people as safe and healthy as possible.”
CMS established the Partnership for Patients (PfP) initiative in 2011 as one of the first models to be tested under the authority of section 1115A of the Social Security Act (the Act) with the goal of reducing program expenditures while preserving or enhancing the quality of care. Since the launch of the PfP and the work of Hospital Engagement Networks in collaboration with many other stakeholders, U.S. hospitals have achieved unprecedented national reductions in harm. CMS believes that the upcoming work of the Hospital Improvement Innovation Networks, working as part of the Quality Improvement Organization’s work to improve patient safety and the quality of care in the Medicare program, will continue the great strides made in improving care provided to beneficiaries.
For more information on the Partnership for Patients and the Hospital Improvement Innovation Networks, please visit partnershipforpatients.cms.gov.
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Researchers at Intermountain Medical Center and other centers have found that patients with a lower heart rate who are in septic shock have a better chance of survival than those with an abnormally rapid heart rate.
Researchers found that patients with lower heart rate who are in septic shock have a better chance of survival than those with an abnormally rapid heart rate.
Any research-based interventions we can offer that improves the outcomes of these patients will help reduce their chances of mortality.
— Sarah Beesley, MD, Intermountain Medical Center
SALT LAKE CITY , UTAH , USA , October 4, 2016 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Researchers at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City, along with researchers from four other centers, including Harvard Medical School, have found that patients with a lower heart rate who are in septic shock have a better chance of survival than those with an abnormally rapid heart rate.
“Three out of 10 patients who suffer from septic shock end up dying in the hospital,” said Sarah Beesley, MD, a pulmonary and critical care medicine specialist at Intermountain Medical Center. “Any research-based interventions we can offer that improves the outcomes of these patients will help reduce their chances of mortality.”
Results from the study are published in the October 2016 edition of Critical Care Medicine, a publication of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
The research project, led by Intermountain Medical Center researchers, was a collaborative effort with the University of Utah School of Medicine, the University of Chicago, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Harvard Medical School.
Sepsis occurs when an infection in the body disrupts normal operations of the organs and creates an exaggerated total-body response. The infection becomes so overwhelming the patient needs life support and antibiotics to survive. Rapid heart rate is common in patients in septic shock.
Researchers identified 1,554 patients who had been hospitalized with septic shock. Forty-four percent met the criteria for bradycardia, or a heart rate lower than 80 beats per minute, at some time during the course of treatment.
Twenty-eight days following discharge, patients from the bradycardia group had a mortality rate of 21 percent, while patients who never experienced bradycardia had a mortality rate of 34 percent.
Patients with an average lower heart rate below 80 beats per minute reduced their chances of dying from septic shock by 13 percent, according to the study.
Lower heart rates in the patients evaluated in this study occurred naturally, meaning nothing was administered to the patient that would slow down their heart rates. However, the study suggests future research is necessary to evaluate whether medical interventions that reduce the heart rate can help decrease the mortality of patients in septic shock.
“Our research adds to the body of literature on bradycardia and septic shock to improve outcomes of patients who are on life support,” said Dr. Beesley. “It supports the concept of continuing down this vein of research and lays the groundwork for future research that improves patient outcomes.”
