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Hospice managers and staff members have become accustomed to looking for ways to streamline services and lower costs, but the proposed three-year reductions in the wage index planned by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will add an extra challenge for managers.
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When 78 million baby boomers reach age 65 in 2011, they will depend upon a health care work force that is too small and unprepared to meet their needs, according to a report from the Institute of Medicine.
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When the hospice nurses' laptops at the St. John Home Health and Hospice in Tulsa, OK, stopped synchronizing with the agency's server, agency management and the software vendor worked through the weekend to identify and solve the problem.
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The 22 laptops were working fine. Data were being entered, nurses were visiting patients, and everyone was thrilled with the newly installed electronic health record system. At least that's what everyone believed until nurses started to report that data they transmitted the night before weren't showing up in the records.
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Oral Prednisolone for Acute Gout; Adding Aliskiren to Losartan for Diabetic Nephropathy; Early Aggressive Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes Pays Off; Sublingual Immunotherapy; Methylnaltrexone for Opioid-Induced Constipation; Prucalopride for Severe Constipation
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The Joint Commission has issued a Sentinel Event Alert on preventing accidents and injuries in the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) suite
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Your hospital is likely in the process of implementing a rapid response team (RRT), if one is not already in place but the team is probably focused on adult care. Now a small but growing number of hospitals are implementing pediatric RRTs to improve the care of children.
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The quality of nursing care will have a much bigger impact on reimbursement than ever before, as a result of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) "no pay" conditions, according to a recent analysis.