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Evaluating your same-day surgery space as you sit or crawl around the floor doesnt sound practical or necessary, and it is definitely not dignified, but it is essential when youre designing space to be used for pediatric patients.
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The recently announced national smallpox vaccination plan will have a significant impact on your same-day surgery program, whether you work in a hospital, surgery center, or office setting.
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Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) has a significant impact on the patient and health care provider. While routine prophylaxis to prevent PONV may seem desirable, wide variations in efficacy and costs of treatment suggest that routine use is not warranted.
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The number of blind or visually impaired people in the United States is expected to double in 30 years, to 6.8 million, as the baby boomer generation ages, according to Vision Problems in the U.S., a report issued by the National Eye Institute in Bethesda, MD.
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Demand for beds expected to increase; Final OPPS rule increases spending; Emergency care crisis indicated by AZ survey; HHS issues final report on regulatory reform; CMS proposes tracking hospital referrals to HHAs.
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How to establish and maintain a high standard of care, promote consistency across 18 diverse health care facilities, and develop a culture of quality throughout the system was the challenge that confronted the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System (NS-LIJHS) in Great Neck, NY.
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Notifying patients of their privacy rights under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is one of the tasks that fall most squarely onto the shoulders of access management.
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Another initiative at St. Louis-based SSM Health Care (SSMHC) that helps improve outcomes and engender physician buy-in is the Clinical Collaborative process.
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St. Louis-based SSM Health Care (SSMHC), a not-for-profit health system, has instituted a series of case management CARE PATHWAYS that have improved outcomes in several initiatives over the past five years. Results of the programs are shared systemwide to encourage benchmarking and modeling.
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Hospitals are running the gamut of possible solutions as they struggle to interpret the provisions of the HIPAA privacy rule, says Tony Mogavero, director of physician services for St. Petersburg, FL-based John Putnam International, a company that provides web-based and teacher-led education for access personnel.