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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued infection control guidance for managing people in the health care setting and community who may be infected with the monkeypox virus.
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When Philip Bonaparte, MD, joined Horizon Mercy as chief medical officer, his vision was for the health plan to be a partner with the local health care providers.
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Even if you're not a designated disease management case manager, you can help your clients manage their chronic diseases, according to Carole M. Stolte-Upman, RN, MA, CCM, CRC, CDMS, CPC, director of Chesapeake Disability Management Inc., a disability case management company in Towson, MD.
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Case managers who live and work in rural areas often face challenges their big-city counterparts never encounter.
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When a case manager for Presbyterian Health Plan couldn't get in touch with a family with two young children with serious health problems, she packed a lunch, charged up her cell phone, drove to the small New Mexico town on the Mexican border where she thought the family lived, and went door-to-door looking for them.
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National patient safety legislation that would encourage the confidential reporting of medical errors is critically needed in todays health care system, urged Dennis OLeary, MD, president of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations in Oakbrook Terrace, IL.
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Infection control professionals attempting to comply with accreditors and do a root-cause analysis of fatal nosocomial infections must set narrow patient definitions and work closely with their quality improvement colleagues if any meaningful prevention data are to come out of the controversial initiative, an ICP warned.
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As many as 170 hospitals could be subject to wall-to-wall inspections this year under the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administrations targeted inspection program.
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Surface contamination may be an important method of transmission of the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), according to investigations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.