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This month, the nation's most comprehensive safe patient handling law takes its full effect: Hospitals in Washington state must have equipment to reduce injuries by Jan. 31. The state's Department of Health will enforce the rule through its licensing process.
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How widespread are chemical hazards in health care? The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) seeks to find out and is proposing an online survey, which would be targeted to members of professional organizations such as the American Nurses Association.
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Expect more regulation. Like a sleeping giant that awakens with a roar, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is moving forward with new initiatives, including the first steps toward a possible airborne infectious diseases standard and renewing proposed record-keeping rules on musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) injuries.
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1993: The Labor Coalition to Fight TB in the Workplace petitioned the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration for a tuberculosis standard.
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A study published in the November 2009 issue of the Archives of Surgery1 has caused a stir in ED circles by asserting that uninsured trauma patients are more likely to die than those patients who have insurance.
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After the first year of a two-year pilot program, the ED and the community health center participants agree that it has been successful in helping Medicaid and uninsured patients find the primary care they need.
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The ED at Baptist Medical Center in San Antonio has slashed its left without treatment (LWT) rate from a high of 9.5% in spring 2009 to 2.2% at present, thanks to a "split flow" strategy it adopted in August 2009.
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When the Massachusetts legislature outlawed ambulance diversions effective Jan. 1, 2009, dire predictions were made about how overwhelmed the busy EDs would be.
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