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By using the Internet, the same-day surgery staff at Kent Hospital in Warwick, RI, was able to broadcast a rotator cuff surgery to 140 high schools students and their teachers at seven school sites.
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American Health Consultants is offering "Imminent Smallpox Vaccinations in Hospitals: Consequences for You and Your Facility," a 90-minute audio conference Wednesday, Dec. 11, from 2-3:30 p.m. EST.
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Its easy to say that attracting more students to nursing programs will help address the nursing shortage in the future, but how do you inspire high school students?
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Submit your organizations deficiencies to your accreditation organization? Thats exactly what the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is expecting you to do after a self-assessment halfway through your three-year accreditation cycle. Youll also have to submit a plan to correct the deficiencies.
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A listing by subject category of all articles published in Same-Day Surgery newsletter in 2002.
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The final rule for the hospital outpatient prospective payment system provides a congressionally mandated 3.5% inflationary update to hospitals Medicare outpatient payment rates for FY 2003. Here is a summary from the American Hospital Association.
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James G. Parker Insurance Associates in Fresno, CA, has negotiated exclusive terms and conditions for ambulatory surgery centers and surgical hospitals to obtain medical malpractice insurance.
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Surgery centers are busy. Theres no question about that. But they are also big business, and someone needs to keep track of the business end. It takes constant monitoring to stay on the right track.
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A video that is tailored to the specific needs of office-based and ambulatory programs explains The Joint Commission's focus on continuous performance improvement with survey techniques such as the tracer methodology.
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Children undergoing general anesthesia for surgery or other procedures are more likely to have adverse respiratory events if they recently had a cold or other upper respiratory infection (URI).