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For a doctor, telling a patient or patient's family that a medical error has happened in the course of his or her care is hard enough. But what if the error was committed by another provider?
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Hospice evolved from the need to provide medical and social support to terminally ill patients in the last weeks of their lives. But while the benefits hospice can provide have expanded, the perception that hospice is where patients go to die has, until recently, stayed the same.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recognizes that transactions often require the participation of two covered entities.
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A 2003 Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulation that interpreted EMTALA not to apply to inpatients does not have the "force and effect of law," according to a recent decision by a U.S. District Court in Puerto Rico.
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Nine years ago, when Kristen Stiles became director of admissions at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth, an access employee who stayed in the job for three months was considered long term.
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A "discharge by appointment" initiative at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Towson, MD, has had some success, but is being challenged by physician delays and families who aren't arriving on time.
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What began as an automated telephonic tool to streamline the precertification process at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock has expanded into a multi-faceted system.
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Like many health care providers across the country, Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth is struggling with the challenge of ensuring accurate identification of patients.
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If you were frustrated by the slow delivery of influenza vaccine last fall, public health officials have a message for you: Get used to it.
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Once again, a trendsetter in occupational health, California has created a draft standard on aerosol transmissible diseases that would allow biannual fit-testing of N95-filtering facepiece respirators until at least 2012 but would require the use of powered air purifying respirators (PAPRs) during high-hazard procedures.