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Low-income people with Medicare who sign up for new Part D drug plans and receive the additional subsidies an estimated 8.7 million people are projected to pay 83% less for prescription drugs in 2006 than they would have spent if the Medicare drug law had not been enacted, according to a recent report by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Critics call his practice boutique medicine or wealthcare, but the way Michigan physician John Blanchard, MD sees it, he and his partners at Premier Private Physicians are putting control of health care back in the hands of their patients.
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Living Will, Health care power of attorney, and Health care advance directive are defined.
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Since passage of the Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) in 1990, the living will a form of advance directive that spells out the signers wishes for end-of-life care and termination of care has become an almost automatic subject in any discussion of death or resuscitative medicine. But is the living will the useful tool that polls indicate most Americans believe it is?
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In 2004, the Wilmette, IL-based Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) revised standards to identify the need for specific personnel to be available until the patient was medically and physically discharged.
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Are you worried about the certified health care engineer surveyor who will be scrutinizing your organizations life safety code compliance during your next JCAHO survey? If so, be aware that the attention paid to life safety and Environment of Care (EC) may be even more intense than you expect.
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Focusing on a blame-free environment to promote a culture of patient safety is important; however, it also can have an unintended and undesirable effect on accountability.
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Tragic errors caused by administration of vincristine into the subarachnoid space of chemotherapy patients continue to occur, even though these wrong-route errors are preventable, according to a recent Sentinel Event Alert issued by JCAHO.
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A series of multidisciplinary initiatives has resulted in a 1.3-day decrease in length of stay (LOS) at Hackensack (NJ) University Medical Center (HUMC).