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A hospice ethics committee can often provide additional emotional support to patients and family members during a time when making decisions is extremely difficult.
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While much attention has been paid to new hospital infection control standards for 2005, the Joint Commission also is adopting similar standards in long-term care facilities.
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In light of so many providers having difficulty meeting the standard of care for medication administration, the Joint Commission is taking action.
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Even using generic substitution and discounted prices, state pharmaceutical assistance program drug expenditures have escalated, according to a report funded by New York City-based The Commonwealth Fund and carried out by the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy.
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Here are six reasons from Families USA in Washington, DC, why health insurance matters.
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National Governors Association executive director Raymond Scheppach said that while both education and Medicaid take significant portions of state budgets, Medicaid creates more problems because much of its spending is not discretionary while all education spending is
discretionary.
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The threat of airborne anthrax the new clear and present danger in the realm of bioterrorism is spurring public health officials to underscore the importance for states and communities to plan ahead for dispensing mass quantities of antibiotics.
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Communication between hospitals and public health departments was a major problem among Chicago-area facilities participating in a federal bioterrorism drill, says Connie Cutler, RN, MS, CIC, director of clinical excellence for Advocate Healthcare.
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Given the well-chronicled vulnerabilities of human society to large-scale disease outbreaks, the prospect of deliberate epidemics is a daunting one for both political and medical leadership.
