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Ask any pharmacy director about presenting budgets to a hospital's top managers, and you'll hear that it wasn't easy, especially when the budget projects a major increase in costs.
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Hospital pharmacies often encounter obstacles in the budgeting process, particularly when it's difficult to obtain the necessary data or when a health care organization is having a difficult year financially.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues its transformation of how it pays ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) and hospitals for outpatient services, but each iteration of the four-year project nonetheless manages to raise a fresh round of objections.
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Immunization awareness plays an important role in patient care; in fact, most adults are unaware that immunizations are not just for kids anymore. Therefore, it is the responsibility of health care providers to be knowledgeable about pertinent vaccines for their patient population.
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Bendamustine hydrochloride for injection (Treanda®) was approved on March 20, 2008, for the treatment of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
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End-of-life issues should be discussed while people are in good health. Just as people prepare for birth, it is important to prepare for death.
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Currently, about 85% of parents put babies down to sleep on their backs. Yet other safe sleep practices also must be followed, and education on these must be as vigilant as that provided regarding putting babies to bed on their backs.
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In early July, The Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert on behavior among health care professionals and its effect on care.
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Who would ever believe that one could enter a hospital and confuse it for a spa?