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The American Hospital Association (AHA) in Chicago has announced it would provide guidelines for hospitals on billing and collection practices to ensure that poor patients and patients who lack health insurance are treated in a fair-and-balanced manner.
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Are you lobbying for your organization to make a capital investment in information technology systems? A new report from the Washington, DC-based Institute of Medicine (IOM) may give you added ammunition.
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When a Pennsylvania nurse reported seeing potentially fatal drugs stuffed inside a disposal container for used needles, suspicion centered on one nurse in the cardiac care unit. When confronted with questions about dozens of patient deaths, the nurse refused to answer and instead, quit his job.
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In a Dear Colleague letter aimed at hospital leaders, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns that some electrically powered hospital beds may pose a risk of fire. The letter notes the FDA has received 95 reports of fires involving electrically powered hospital beds since 1993.
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Saying the risk of infection outweighs the risk of fire, a national fire marshals association has come out in support of the use of alcohol hand rubs in the health care facilities.
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In pediatrics, pharmaceuticals, and parenting, it has long been known that children are not just miniature adults. In the field of rehabilitation, that knowledge has been a little slower coming into practice.
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Delay in treatment remains the most common cause of sentinel events in EDs, accounting for more than half of all sentinel events originating in EDs since the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations began tracking the events in 1995.
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Your ED is geared toward delivering acute care to sick or injured patients, but hospitals that aspire to earning disease-specific care (DSC) certification are requiring their EDs to take a fresh look at how they treat patients with chronic illnesses.
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced an interim final rule to identify and compensate ED staff and others injured as a result of receiving a smallpox vaccine.
