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Lake Region Healthcare Corp. in Fergus Falls, MN, put in place workgroups for each chapter on the JCAHO standards a year and a half before its survey to ensure that the medical center was in compliance. In addition, the chapter chairs decided to form a JCAHO Fun Committee to brainstorm fun and unique methods to educate staff.
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When applying for grant money, pay close attention to the application requirements and follow them precisely. If you dont they may not even look at your proposal.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention temporarily should suspend its smallpox vaccination programs and conduct an evaluation and reassessment of the effort before vaccine is offered to larger groups of health care workers, a special panel of the Institute of Medicine in Washington, DC, recommends.
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Since plague (Yersinia pestis) was introduced into the United States in the San Francisco Bay area in 1900, there have been a total of 941 confirmed human cases recorded through the year 2000.
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When a rare and deadly infection suddenly appears out of time and place, todays clinician cannot exclude the possibility of bioterrorism. A case of plague (Yersinia pestis) had not been seen in New York City in more than a century. In November 2002, there appeared not one case, but two.
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Pneumococcal vaccine protects older adults from developing pneumococcal bacteremia but does not prevent community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), according to a new study from Group Health Cooperative in Seattle.
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More than 2000 cases of severe acute respiratory disease (SARS) with more than 70 deaths were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) by April 2, 2003.