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As with many professional positions, personal referrals from other health care providers are what typically lead to an opportunity to serve on the ethics committee at Beaumont Hospitals in Royal Oak, MI.
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Every study participant has seen some variation of this assurance in informed consent documents: "You are free to participate in this research or to withdraw at any time without penalty or loss of benefits you are entitled to receive."
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One health care provider is using its approach to ethics to combat what one ethics leader in the organization calls "a perfect storm" of intense regulatory scrutiny, increased litigation, a large population of chronically ill patients in hospitals for long periods of time, and public mistrust of the health care system.
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Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) should re-examine their specialty services as they enter 2009 reimbursement, which will be 50% of the hospital outpatient department (HOPD) rate, according to Judith L. English, vice president of business operations and partner at Surgery Consultants of America (SCA) and Serbin Surgery Center Billing, both in Fort Myers, FL.
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Earlier this year, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued an updated Safety and Health Information Bulletin on latex sensitization and latex allergy. In it, OSHA suggests the following measures to reduce health care worker exposure to latex:
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The following information is excerpted with permission from the April 2008 issue of SAMBA Talks, published by the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia:
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared for marketing a device made from a new form of natural rubber latex, guayule latex. The Yulex Patient Examination Glove, made by Maricopa, AZ-based Yulex, is derived from the guayule bush, a desert plant native to the southwestern United States.
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One of the biggest challenges facing case managers today is educating the consumer and other health care providers about what case managers do and the value they bring to the table, says Jeff Frater, RN, BSN, CCM, new president for the Case Management Society of America (CMSA).
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The goal of Health Net's Special Needs Plan for seniors with elevated cholesterol is to empower the members to become more informed and responsible for their own medical care in cooperation and collaboration with their physicians, says Richard Jacobs, MD, MBA, chief medical officer for Health Net of Arizona Inc.
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As part of its efforts to take a proactive approach to heart disease, Health Net Inc. has launched the first-ever Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plan designed specifically for seniors with high cholesterol.
