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This is the first article of a two-part series on how to reduce the risk of infection for patients with indwelling bladder catheters.
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An estimated 1.3 million patients received hospice services in 2006, a 162% increase in 10 years, and approximately 36% of all deaths in the United States in 2006 were under the care of a hospice program.
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Not long ago, case managers for Medical Management International lugged huge cases of patient files with them when they visited clients and often worked into the night, entering documentation and patient notes into the computer.
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A two-year investigation of the home care industry in New York has resulted in the indictment of B&H Health Care Services, also known as Nursing Personnel Homecare, a Brooklyn, NY-based home health agency.
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Scheduling issues with the operating room. Your facility failing to grow in response to the needs of the community.
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There is no shortage of jaw-dropping numbers associated with health care in the United States, but some numbers leave the mandible resting more squarely on the clavicle than others, as the latest edition of the Dartmouth Atlas Project makes abundantly clear.
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AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) of Los Angeles recently raised a stir when the organization's president and its medical chief announced that it was time for the federal government to stop funding research for the HIV vaccine and to put that money into prevention and treatment that works.
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Agitation, aggression, and psychosis are predictably problematic in persons with progressive dementia. In fact, more than 90% of dementia patients will experience one or more of these during the course of their illness.
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