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A recent posting on the web site medlaw.com warns hospitals to assess their vulnerability to acts of terrorism and suggests some precautionary measures.
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A telecommuting project in the pre-services department at Carolinas HealthCare System in Charlotte, NC, is reducing the amount of work time lost to bad weather and delighting employees who find themselves well suited to working at home.
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Rural residents who are Medicare beneficiaries and need inpatient rehabilitation services may be able to receive services in their own community hospitals thanks to new instructions issued recently by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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Mississippi attorney Richard Scruggs has targeted not-for-profit hospitals in his latest class action effort, accusing them of overcharging uninsured patients and using harassment to collect overdue bills. But while the lawsuits are bringing fresh attention to a long-simmering problem, health policy experts and hospital officials say, they are not likely to help the uninsured.
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Have you ever been walking through the hospital and overheard staff talking about patients? So have plenty of other people, according to new research that warns such overheard conversations can be a serious breach of patient confidentiality.
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Rehab Continuum Report asked several experts on the topic of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to discuss the legislation and its impact on rehab and people living with disabilities since the act was signed into law in 1990.
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Despite ample evidence that cardiac rehabilitation services provide health benefits to people who have suffered from a heart attack or other cardiac trouble, clinicians still do not make automatic referrals to cardiac rehab programs, a recent study shows.
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Therapists, nurses, and others who work with rehab patients sometimes need to give as much consideration to the patients psychosocial and neuropsychological problems as they do to the physical issues, particularly in the case of patients whove suffered a traumatic brain injury, experts advise.
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Safety culture approach guides health systems efforts
