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Media already are pegging him for the next administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. If in fact President Obama nominates Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, to that position, what would it mean for the health care industry?
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Quality and utilization are going to be inextricably linked as the health care industry moves forward with the health care reform legislation.
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Demonstrating that you're prepared is important when Joint Commission surveyors knock on your door, says Susan Bukunt, RN, MPA, CPHQ, senior director of clinical quality and patient safety at El Camino Hospital with two campuses in Los Gatos and Mountain View, CA.
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Calvert Memorial Hospital in Prince Frederick, MD, which is part of the VHA Central Atlantic, chose to use safety coaches to monitor hand hygiene compliance.
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The staggering burden of health care associated infections (HAIs) in lives and dollars is "unacceptable," but changing the status quo is difficult because the health care system is woefully skewed toward treatment rather than prevention, Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said recently in Atlanta at the opening of the Fifth Decennial International Conference on HAIs.
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For HIV providers who continually see a certain cohort of patients return to the hospital and fail on their antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimens, there's a new model for medication support that might prove helpful.
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HIV/AIDS providers and others say the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590), which was signed by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010, contains mostly good news for the HIV/AIDS community.
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The overall public health picture looks good with tuberculosis (TB) rates continuing to decline in both HIV-infected and general United States populations. But these facts mask a disturbing trend that researchers found in Southern California.
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