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Its no longer enough for case managers to know where patients are going after discharge. Now they have to know each patients benefits as soon after admission as possible and be aware of what the benefits will and wont cover.
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When a teen-ager came to Childrens Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati with a sunburn-like rash, a life-threatening cause was identified by an emergency department (ED) nurse.
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W.A. Foote Memorial Hospital in Jackson, MI, has dramatically increased the bang for its prescription drug buck by forming a medication assistance program (MAP) in conjunction with several community agencies.
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A social work professional at a 100-bed hospital in Indiana is getting free medications for patients who cant afford them with a program she says could be a model for health care organizations across the country.
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Service quality is a high priority for most health care organizations. Unfortunately, failures in service and, therefore, concerns are inevitable due to the number of variables and perceptions involved in health care delivery. Feedback and learning from concerns is a key ingredient for achieving service excellence.
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Tommy G. Thompson, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), recently announced the adoption of final security standards for protecting individually identifiable health information when it is maintained or transmitted electronically.
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With the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations recent emphasis on investigating nosocomial infections as sentinel events, now is the time to start planning how you will coordinate a root-cause analysis with your organizations infection control professionals.
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When elderly people need long-term care for themselves or their loved ones, they often experience sticker shock when they find out the cost.
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Those baby boomers are doing it again. After dominating the job market, revolutionizing the music and entertainment scene, and setting American culture on its ear for all those years, theyre going to create major challenges to the health care market as they age.
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The U. S. Preventive Service Task Force has concluded that women older than 65 who have always had regular normal Pap smears may not benefit from continued routine screenings.