Hospitals In-Common Laboratory

Name :

Hospitals In-Common Laboratory

Address  :

18 Wynford Drive
Suite 600

Town  :

Toronto

State  :

Ontario

Country  :

CANADA

Post Code:

M3C 3S2

Phone  :

416 391 1499

Fax  :

416 385 2243

Web URL  :

Email  :


Description

An Introduction to HICL
HICL is a private notforprofit corporation that has worked in partnership with Ontario hospitals since 1967 It provides valueadded services that extend the technical and production expertise of hospital laboratories to benefit the entire health care community

HICL operates specimen collection stations a transportation network and a referral service that supports local hospitals and provides access to the most sophisticated laboratory testing currently available in the world Its international service accepts specimens for testing from outside Ontario
Hospital checklists cut readmissions Medicare costs

In another win for inhospital checklists new research finds that a simple onepage checklist can keep heart patients out of the hospital as well as save Medicare billions of dollars according to a presentation Saturday at the American College of Cardiologys ACC annual scientific session After using the 27question checklist before discharge 30day ... Read More

Third of diabetic patients are victims of medication errors that can cause dangerous blood glucose l

Almost one in three diabetic hospital patients are victims of medication errors that can cause dangerous blood glucose levels a report has found Hospitals in England and Wales made at least one mistake per inpatient in the treatment of 3700 diabetes sufferers in one week data showed During this period the affected patients succumbed to more than ... Read More