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When leaders at Coastal Hospice in Salisbury, MD, decided to move toward a palliative care philosophy, one of their first actions was to visit a Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) site at the Palliative Care Center of the Bluegrass in Lexington, KY.
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As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began unveiling the details of is value-based purchasing plan (see the cover story in the July 2007 issue of HBQI), knowledgeable observers were waiting for the "other shoe" to drop. Well, now it has.
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Three health care systems Wellmont Health System, based in Kingsport, TN; Novant Health, based in Winston-Salem, NC; and Adventist Health System, based in Winter Park, FL have come together to seek a solution to improving patient safety.
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The June 2007 Fiscal Survey of States issued by the National Governors Association (NGA) and National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO) reported stable state financial conditions in FY 2007 and the prospect of a steady FY 2008 for most states ...
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The George Washington University Medical Center School of Public Health and Health Services and First Focus released a report demonstrating that children benefit greatly when their parents have health care coverage.
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Results of a large national study of young men and women ages 18-27 suggest that Mycoplasma genitalium, a relatively new sexually transmitted infection, surpassed gonorrhea in prevalence.
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Robert Hatcher, MD, MPH, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Atlanta's Emory University and chairman of the editorial board for Contraceptive Technology Update, is the 2007 recipient of the Kenneth J. Ryan, MD, Physician Leadership Award.
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Standard 10-day triple therapy for Helicobacter pylori may result in relatively low eradication rates.
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MRI is more sensitive than CT for detecting acute ischemia and can detect acute hemorrhage with equal sensitivity to CT.
