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Before the case management staff at Davis Memorial Hospital in Elkins, WV, went live with its newly designed case management plan, staff worked hard to sell the new arrangement to hospital staff and attending physicians.
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When the administration at Davis Memorial Hospital in Elkins, WV, redesigned its case management department, improving reimbursement for emergency department (ED) patients and same-day-surgery patients was a major goal.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued infection control guidance for managing people in the health care setting and in the community who may be infected with the monkey pox virus. In a late June news briefing, a CDC official said the agency was investigating 33 cases of possible human infection with the virus in Wisconsin, Indiana, and Illinois.
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Nursing standing orders for ED patients with stroke symptoms at Community Medical Center in Toms River, NJ.
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Do stroke patients in your emergency department (ED) always receive a computed tomography (CT) scan within 25 minutes, and do you have results within 45 minutes? If not, you're not following recommended time frames for stroke care - a scenario commonly occurring in community EDs, according to a just-published study.
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When Millie Brown, a former manager in the billing department at Children's Health Care of Atlanta, became director of patient access at the hospital about two years ago, it was natural that she would look for opportunities for improvement in the quality of registration data.
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After years of fierce protest by infection control professionals, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has officially withdrawn its proposed health care tuberculosis standard.
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Citing concerns about patient safety and the arrogance of his professional colleagues, a retired surgeon is urging that those practicing surgery should undergo mandatory testing for bloodborne infections.
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