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Patients will soon be able to check the influenza vaccination rates of health care workers at the nation’s hospitals through Hospitalcompare.gov, the website of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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Expecting the unexpected: ‘The best managers are people who don’t lose that human touch.’ Whether it’s a rare flu epidemic like H1N1, a natural disaster or a major hospital technology overhaul, hospital employee health departments can just about predict the arrival of something unpredictable every year or two.
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Hospitals with solid organizational practices and policies, including better ergonomic practices, have lower injury rates among nurses, a new study finds.
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For the first time, conjugated monoclonal antibodies have been added to a list of drugs that pose an occupational hazard. The new cancer treatment targets tumors with deadly toxins – but also can produce some residue that could put health care workers at risk, safety experts caution.
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With 5.7 million workers employed in hospitals, population workforce aging trends are hitting the industry hard. The nursing and nursing aides’ shortages are combining with the demographic trend of older female employees — an average of 47 years for RNs — suggest that nurses and other health care workers will need to continue working into advanced age in the next decade.
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Early in the morning on Easter Sunday, a man strode past the weapons screening area of Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles and, without warning, began stabbing a nurse in the torso.
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Stress triggers include job insecurity, hostile workplace in health care support positions. Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and other leading causes of death, and now a new study has found that some hospital workers have significantly higher risk of developing the disease.
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Medical malpractice plaintiffs attorneys are increasingly confident about obtaining potentially game-changing documents that risk managers assumed would never be seen by the other side.
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News: The patient, a 30-year-old man, was admitted to a medical center in September 2010 for a laparoscopic gallbladder removal procedure. The procedure was performed by a surgeon with more than 20 years of experience.