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ProHealth Care in Waukesha, WI, is in the process of implementing its "Partnership with Patients Work Plan." Susan M. Kanack, BSN, RN, patient education coordinator, is determining how to make the patient education tools more interactive to fit with the new partnership culture that is being developed.
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Starting next month, hospices will have to report to Medicare all nursing, hospice aide, and social worker visits made for patients. Then a few months later, the new conditions of participation (COPs) will be finalized, which will require greater attention to documentation of services and quality.
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True or false: If a male caregiver/family member doesn't show any emotion, then he is coping well with his grief over his loved one's dying.
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It's the middle of the night and the patient you admitted last week is having difficulty breathing. Because the nurse has only seen the patient once, and because of the time of day, and because both the patient and the caregiver are not sure what to do, they go to the emergency room.
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A Medicare demonstration project at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City provides care coordination to help high-cost, fee-for-service beneficiaries comply with their medical treatment plan and access the community services they need to manage their chronic conditions.
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When an employee returns to work after a heart attack, chronic job stress doubles their risk for another coronary heart disease event, according to a recent study.
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Workers' compensation fee schedules do not properly recognize and reimburse physicians who restore injured workers to optimal function and promote rapid return to work, says a new position statement from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).
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To prepare for an influenza pandemic, you've counted your ventilators and calculated your patient surge, sought options to add bed space, and assessed the capacity of the emergency department. But have you estimated how many of your employees will show up for work?
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Julie Gerberding, MD, MPH, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has taken the unusual step of directly appealing to health care workers to get vaccinated for seasonal influenza.
