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Healthcare Workers Fired for Refusing Flu Shots
A hospital system in Minnesota has fired approximately 50 healthcare workers for refusing flu shots, igniting a battle with a nurses’ union that is filing grievances to restore personnel to their jobs.
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Eroding Profits, Compromised Benchmarks
Is your profit margin not what it used to be? Has your turnaround time increased? You are not alone. It happens to the best facilities, both hospitals and freestanding surgery centers.
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Screening Patients Can Be Tricky, Particularly Without Electronic Records
Identifying the right patients for outpatient surgery can be tricky. Surgery centers must ensure patients have no conditions or take no medications that would jeopardize a safe surgical outcome.
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Balancing Needs of Multigenerational Staff Challenging for ASC Directors
Balancing the needs of older and younger employees can be challenging because of societal differences in a multigenerational workforce.
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Follow These Strategies to Prevent Problems With Dissatisfied Patients
Unhappy patients can cause major headaches for a surgery center. Problems could lead to financial and legal issues.
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ASCs Can Take Steps to Prevent and Handle Sexual Harassment Allegations
Surgery centers can take several steps to reduce the likelihood of a sexual harassment claim or to handle one without it heading to court.
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Sexual Harassment Can Cost an ASC Millions
Sexual harassment allegations made headlines for weeks in late 2017, targeting politicians, actors, movie moguls, and others. In recent years, similar allegations also resulted in surgery centers and other healthcare organizations paying millions in fines and lawsuit damages after such allegations were ignored.
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Pain Research Can Harm Participants
Researchers must pay greater attention to the rights of study participants in pain research, concludes a recent paper by the Ethics Committee of the Pain-Omics Group.
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‘Little Quality Evidence’ for Marketing MRT as Fertility Treatment
The doctor who delivered the first “three-parent” baby is seeking to commercialize mitochondrial replacement therapy by marketing a treatment to older women who want to produce viable embryos — at a cost of $80,000 to $120,000.
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‘Decision-makers of Last Resort’ Pose Unique Ethical Challenges
Surrogates sometimes vehemently disagree, despite all attempts to resolve the conflict. In other cases, there’s simply no one to speak on the patient’s behalf. Either way, the clinical team is forced to turn to the courts or government if an important medical decision must be made.