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Pacific Health, related entities agree to $16.5 million for kickbacks
The United States has entered into a settlement agreement with Pacific Health Corp. (PHC) and related entities in which they agreed to pay the government and the state of California $16.5 million for allegedly engaging in an illegal kickback scheme in Los Angeles, the Justice Department announced recently. -
Board members, C-level execs at risk from going bare
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More hospitals ‘going bare,’ taking big gamble on med mal
With a tough economy and mounting pressures on healthcare providers, more hospitals are going bare and foregoing medical malpractice insurance coverage in the hopes that they can cover any judgment on their own. -
Do you use Code Pink for a missing older child?
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Limit access, urge parents not to linger after discharge
Limiting access to hospital units is one strategy for reducing the risk of abductions and other threats to children, notes Dan Yaross, director of security at Nationwide Childrens Hospital in Cincinnati. -
BYOD: It’s not a party invite, but a hospital problem
Providers are increasingly faced with the dilemma of whether to ban all personal electronic devices such as iPads and BlackBerrys in patient care areas or allow clinicians to use them. -
Going bare is like ‘playing Russian roulette’
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287 infants abducted since ‘83 Many are from mom’s room
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The declicate balance between sleep and work
In a Science blog on Sleep and Work, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health recommended employers consider these issues: -
Take a new path to help employees change
It takes a small step to make a big change. That is the essential truth behind a motivational method that is reshaping wellness promotion.