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A recent bestselling novel centers around five pivotal people the main character meets in the afterlife. But ethics researchers at The Hastings Center say there are five pivotal people that public health leaders are going to want to meet now, to prepare and protect them before an influenza pandemic.
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The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston has long been the hospital where indigent patients including illegal immigrants sought care.
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Within months of each other, the states of Minnesota and Massachusetts established policies whereby facilities in those states will no longer bill for some or all of a list of 27 adverse events identified by the National Quality Forum as "never events."
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Not too many years ago, the health care industry was applauding the first hospital recipient of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
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The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Presbyterian is laying the foundation for a program designed to facilitate organ donations in its emergency department.
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Nobody questions the seriousness of the nursing shortage, but so far no one has come up with a satisfactory solution. The American Academy of Nursing believes it is on the right track with a project called "Technology Targets," funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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For Cathy Sampson, CPHRM, manager of risk management for North Memorial Healthcare in Robbinsdale, MN, the new state policy concerning non-billing for never events is no big deal. In fact, her hospital has been practicing such a policy for years.
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What is your level of knowledge when it comes to genital herpes, its methods of virus transmission, risks to others, and appropriate treatment? If results of an online survey are any indication, many health care providers and patients with herpes are poorly informed about herpes.