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While many managers look carefully at how their outpatient surgery programs recruit new employees, it is just as important to look carefully at what you are doing to retain the good employees you have now, say experts interviewed by Hospital Home Health.
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The Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) was signed into law by President Bush on Feb. 8, 2006. The DRA contains new requirements intended to reduce Medicaid fraud and abuse.
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A report offering guidelines to help health care organizations ensure effective, patient-centered communications with patients of diverse backgrounds has been released by the American Medical Association (AMA) Ethical Force Program.
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Navigating the health care system often is bewildering for people who were born in the United States and speak English; it may be incomprehensible for some of this country's growing immigrant population, who bring their own cultural beliefs and practices with them.
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For the first time in several years, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations has revised the look-alike/sound-alike drug list.
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Any light shed on resistant staph in the community by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology's national prevalence survey will be most welcome.
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Manufacturers are expecting to produce and distribute more than 100 million doses of influenza vaccines in the United States through early January 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
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Infection control professionals throughout the country are being urged to participate in an unprecedented national prevalence survey this month as part of a long-range goal to eradicate the scourge of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections.
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States that pass laws requiring universal active surveillance cultures for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) may saddle some small, community hospitals with a practice that is not cost-effective, according to ongoing research in an upstate New York hospital group.
