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AGA Medical Holdings; Boston Scientific; Cambridge Heart; FlowCardia; MedCath; Quintiles Transnational; Signalife; Stereotaxis; Xtent
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Terumo Heart (Ann Arbor, Michigan) moved another step closer in its quest to release its DuraHeart Left Ventricular Assist System on the market, after the Institutional Review Board of the University of Michigan voted in late June to move forward with the device's pivotal trial for a bridge-to-transplant indication.
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It's a tough time to be a home health manager. For years, you've implemented new processes and new services designed to strengthen your agency, but it's hard to fight an economic environment that is forcing all industries to reevaluate how they conduct business.
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Consumer direction of personal assistance services (CD-PAS) can offer Medicaid beneficiaries flexibility and independence to individualize their services. Analysts recognize that having greater control over these services is a high priority for some, but not all, disabled Medicaid beneficiaries.
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An overnight delivery of pain medication that took four days and a charge of $125 for eight pills from a hospital pharmacy are two of the reasons that the staff at Hospice of the Hills in Rapid City, SD, started looking for a new way to help patients with emergency needs.
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Closing a home health agency branch office or an entire service line is more than just a business decision. The action affects a wide range of people with whom close relationships have developed over the years, so the timing and type of communication is important.
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This is the second article of a two-part series on how to reduce the risk of infection for patients with indwelling bladder catheters.
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Anna Gibson, RN, CDMS, a case manager specializing in catastrophic injuries and rehabilitation, typically gets a call when a catastrophically injured worker has just arrived at an acute care hospital and has been admitted to the intensive care unit.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released proposed changes to the Medi-are hospice wage index for FY 2009.
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