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Could you perform surgery if patients had their hands tied together and were being watched by armed soldiers? Can you imagine treating patients in rooms that are coated regularly with dirt and sand?
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The recently passed Medicare bill would impose an 18-month moratorium on development of new specialty hospitals, including surgical hospitals, and limit expansion of existing ones retroactively beginning Nov. 18, 2003.
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Beginning April 1, 2004, ambulatory surgery center (ASC) payment rates will be frozen until 2010. And the news may be worse: The payments may be frozen at a rate that is 1% below current rates.
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While the cases remain under investigation, the deaths of some children due to influenza this year may be linked to underlying infections with community-acquired methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA), the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conceded.
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Faced with an infection threat to immunocompromised patients and an absence of clear public health guidelines, some hospitals are furloughing health care workers who receive the new live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV), Hospital Infection Control has learned.
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As community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) increases, we now find that the bug can cause further problems by joining its nosocomial cousins in the hospital The fear used to be that MRSA would leave the hospital, but it appears community strains can just as likely come in.
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Copper-silver ionization in potable waters was found to be highly effective in reducing environmental Legionella colonization and preventing nosocomial Legionnaires disease over prolonged time periods.
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With visions of overrun, bankrupt hospitals and workers dying or refusing to treat patients, a recent government-commissioned study of an epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in the United States had everything but a nightmarish cover painting by Hieronymus Bosch.
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Influenza information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) includes the following answers to common questions about the new live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV).