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If you still are doing last-minute ramp-up preparation for surveys by the Joint Commission, youre going to have big problems with the Shared Visions New Pathways process, warns Lynne Adams, CPHQ, director of quality at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air, MD.
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Medicare officials recently announced the three states where Medicare will conduct a demonstration project involving a new definition of homebound that would allow Medicare beneficiaries receiving home health benefits to leave their homes more frequently and for longer periods without risking the loss of benefits.
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Research from the past two decades shows that fewer Americans are dying in hospitals, and more are dying at home and in nursing homes.
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The availability of comprehensive records of public health in Scandinavian countries is a major advantage in working out epidemiological studies. The present study of Swedish twins including many older than 80 now suggests that the genetic component of AD may be less than previously thought.
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The prospects for therapy in Huntingtons disease are rapidly improving. Another potential treatment is to use striatal neural grafts.
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When Steve Dawson, PT, was first approached with the idea of teletherapy four years ago, he had to laugh. Providing therapy services over a videophone to a patient in a remote location went against the very grain of his profession.
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As a teenager, Muffy Davis goal in life was to make the Olympics. She consistently was ranked one of the top skiers in the United States. Fifteen years later, Davis retired from competitive skiing with a bronze medal from the 1998 Nagano (Japan) Games and three silvers from the 2002 Salt Lake City Games. A success story, but with a twist: Davis medaled in the Paralympics, not the Olympics, and she did it sitting down as a monoskier.
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They may not grab many headlines, but grievance policies and procedures are, nonetheless, a critical component of a thorough, effective quality improvement effort.
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If a nurse applied for a hard-to-fill night shift at your organization who had left a previous facility under suspicion of murdering several patients, do you think shed be hired? Would it be possible for a technician to intentionally harm patients at your hospital over a period of years, with absolutely no action taken?
