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A significant portion of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2015 Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule focuses on quality and raises the percentage of the Medicare base payment hospitals can lose if they perform poorly.
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Although the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) asked for suggestions on alternative methods of identifying and paying for short hospital stays, the agency did not clarify the two-midnight rule in the Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule for 2015.
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At Carolinas HealthCare System, an Advanced Illness Management (AIM) team targets patients with multiple health issues and frequent hospitalizations and emergency department visits.
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U.S. public health authorities urged health providers to raise their awareness about Ebola virus as two American health care workers became ill with the often fatal disease while caring for infected patients in Liberia. At about the same time, a Liberian man became ill with Ebola and traveled by plane to Lagos, Nigeria, where he died in a hospital.
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OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, IL, redesigned its case management department to improve efficiency and clearly define the role of each clinician.
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About one-third of 1,000 workers said they had fallen asleep or become very sleepy at work in the previous month, according to a recent National Sleep Foundation survey. Also, about 10% of adults reported not getting enough sleep every day for the previous month, says a recently published study from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC).
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Suppose needlesticks at one of your health care facilities rose this year compared to last year. That doesn't sound so good. Clearly things are not going in the right direction. But you need more information to understand what's happening. You need a benchmark for your needlesticks.
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Instead of management telling UPS employees how to improve their health and safety, the company's 12,000 front-line employees, who sit on more than 3,000 "comprehensive health and safety process" committees, decide that for themselves.
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Because the average UPS driver walks four and one-half miles a day, you'd think it would be difficult to convince them to come in early for a two-mile warm-up walk, but they do. This is just one example of how the company's Petaluma, CA, facility succeeded in changing the lifestyles of its workers.
