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The information in this article is provided by Mary Ruth Hunt, MD, director of Moses Cone Occupational Health Services in Greensboro, NC, to patients planning to travel to countries where hepatitis A may be contracted.
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If youre an employee suffering discomfort at work, you can attend hours of detailed ergonomics presentations, but the most valuable time you spend could be the few minutes it takes to see pictures of yourself at work.
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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.
