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Be prepared with isolation rooms and airborne precautions for patients with suspected H5N1 avian influenza infection.
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The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston will not be on the front lines in an influenza pandemic. The surge of sick patients seeking an emergency room will not be showing up at Dana Farber's doorstep.
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Health care workers rarely report workplace assaults, according to a review of two community hospitals and two nursing homes as part of a five-year study of health care workplace safety.
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One of the greatest hazards at your hospital may be the pathway from the parking lot to the front door.
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Almost everyone gets the flu shot at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle. It isn't an option. It's a condition of employment.
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Profiles of six Medicaid high-cost populations released near the end of 2006 make the point that Medicaid "plays a unique and critical role in meeting the acute care and long-term services needs of millions of seniors ..."
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While health policy-makers look into ways to more cost-effectively meet the needs of high-risk, high-cost populations, officials from two states presented reports on their Medicaid structural reform efforts at the 2006 conference of the National Association of State Health Policy.
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Only Colorado, Delaware, and Maine are funding tobacco prevention programs at minimum levels recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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In the weeks following the November mid-term elections, a number of health policy think tanks saw an opportunity to make some changes in the nation's approach to health care and issued papers outlining ideas for members of Congress, governors, state Medicaid directors, and state budget officers to consider.
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State Medicaid directors say they don't see much financial benefit to some recent major changes in state pharmacy programs, including changes authorized by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) and use of the Medicare Part D drug benefit.
