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A Boston rehab hospital long has benefited from having a waterfront view, but now the picturesque scenery serves a dual purpose for spinal cord injury (SCI) and other rehab patients, as its the site of a new adaptive aquatics program.
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For a little more than a year, stroke and neurology inpatients at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston have been able to plan outings to Boston destinations of their choice as part of the rehab facilitys community re-entry program.
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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is ready to begin citing employers that fail to identify and reduce ergonomic hazards, says OSHA administrator John L. Henshaw.
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Outcome measurement at University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle typically is tied in some way to quality improvement office initiatives. Therefore, to improve patient education, staff recently looked at the quarterly patient satisfaction reports the medical center receives from a vendor.
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Physiatrists might improve their patient care by learning skills for quality touch, which is a holistic way of dealing with patients that incorporates some age-old methods and philosophies into the new era of rehabilitation treatment.
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Progressive health care managers are increasingly looking outside health care for cutting-edge ideas to improve quality and boost efficiency.
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While most health care compliance efforts focus on government efforts to enforce federal laws, health care attorney Laura Keidan Martin says compliance officers should be aware of new initiatives insurance companies are undertaking to combat arrangements that fall outside state laws or prompt overutilization.
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An area that is likely to see increased use of the False Claims Act is the theory of worthless services, says James Sheehan, the long-time assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Philadelphia, who last month was promoted to the post of associate U.S. attorney for civil programs.
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One of the challenges facing providers under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) will be how to deal with minors, including newborns.
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According to Laura Keidan Martin, a health care attorney with Katten Muchin in Chicago, there are a number of state laws that form the basis for the current private payer initiatives into health care fraud.
