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Laura Sellers, director of operations at Skyland Trail, an 80-bed behavioral health hospital in Atlanta, has gone through 10 Joint Commission surveys.
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The proposed rules for accountable care organizations (ACOs) were released at the end of March, and Donald Berwick, MD, administrator for the Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services, lost no time writing about their potential import in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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In today's healthcare environment, as patients are being discharged from the hospital sicker and quicker than ever before, some patients are in and out of the hospital as if they are going through a revolving door, says Catherine M. Mullahy, RN, BS, CRRN, CCM, president and founder of Mullahy & Associates, a case management training and consulting company based in Huntington, NY.
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Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) research over 30 years has explored its potential benefits for mood disorders, chronic medical illness, and pain as well as mental and physical health for non-medical populations.
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Weight loss and weight maintenance are often difficult to achieve. Although exercise is recommended as one of the mainstays of treatment, many overweight people have difficulty finding a feasible and enjoyable form of exercise.
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You saw the title and probably said to yourself "Really? Another use for the star vitamin, vitamin D?" Indeed; it's true.
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Evidence is mounting that a very small group of high-cost chronically ill clients accounts for the lion's share of costs in Medicaid programs.
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Delaware's Medicaid agency has been designated as the lead agency for the purpose of administering federal funds for planning the state's health benefit exchange, reports Rita M. Landgraf, secretary of the state's Department of Health and Social Services.
