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OhioHealth Cancer Services in Columbus is building a navigator program called CancerConnections to educate and support cancer patients.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is consolidating its fraud detection efforts, strengthening its oversight of medical equipment suppliers and home health agencies, and launching the national recovery audit contractor (RAC) program.
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Patient safety and quality of care are improved with the use of telehealth, according to a recent report by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ).
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In today's fast-food society, a speedy response often determines which agency gets the referral. By taking advantage of the speed of the Internet to secure and process referrals, Swedish Home Care in Seattle was able to boost referrals by 80% and slash referral processing time by 75%.
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Casino night, dinner dance, golf tournament, a designer showhouse, and concerts are all. While the time and effort to plan and hold those fundraising events can be significant, the community awareness as well as the funds raised are important to sponsoring hospices.
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Diversification is not only sound investment advice during these rocky economic times, but it also is sound fundraising advice.
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Bihar, India, is the source of nearly one-half of the world's burden of visceral leishmaniasis and, unfortunately, drug resistance has ended the usefulness of pentavalent antimony (Sb) therapy.
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Travelers' diarrhea is usually a self-limited illness caused by noninvasive enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli. Antimicrobial therapy, in conjunction with adequate oral hydration, can decrease the frequency and duration of excessive stooling.
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The investigators administered a series of double-dose combined hepatitis A and B vaccine at 0, 1, and 6 months to 48 nonresponders and 20 controls (HBV-naïve subjects).