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A recent ruling in Healey v. Thompson may mean that home health agencies (HHAs) will be required to provide notice to Medicare patients whenever services are reduced or discontinued for any reason.
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CMS to slow payments of noncompliant claims; 10 most common health care mistakes by seniors; Self-disclosure reduces penalties; Improving outcomes in pain management.
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Although the most common reasons for hospitalization among HIV patients in six hospitals nationwide are for comorbidities, there remains a significant rate of hospitalization for opportunistic illnesses, a new study says.
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AIDS Alert asked Sevgi O. Aral, PhD, associate director for science in the Division of STD Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to discuss a recent study presented at the 2004 annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Her study, poster 841, investigated predictors of sexual risk taking on the Internet. Aral discusses the findings and the public health implications in this Q&A interview.
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Generating physician involvement in QI efforts has been an ongoing challenge for quality professionals, but an initiative to increase diabetes awareness among the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers (UPMC) 220 primary care physician practices, called UPMC Community Medicine Inc. (CMI), has produced impressive results.
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All Saints Healthcare, a multifacility system in Racine, WI, has adapted a pre-existing template for meeting structure to more closely mesh with its strategic goals, creating a more organized meeting process while at the same time reinforcing key mission and vision messages with staff personnel.
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A task force of leading internal medicine physicians is recommending significant changes to their profession and the health care industry so they can better serve patients while stemming chaos in the current health care system.
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Employees at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), an academic facility in Lebanon, NH, that includes a 400-bed tertiary hospital, research and clinical space, work for an organization that places prime importance on sound environmental stewardship and they become aware of that fact their first day on the job.
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Michigan hospitals track bioterror; Ohio group issues surgical protocol; NFPA now allows hand-rub dispensers.
