-
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a 3.3% increase in Medicare payment rates to home health agencies for fiscal year 2004.
-
Although health care organizations are using innovative strategies to recruit and retain nurses and federal, state, and local government agencies are providing financial support to help alleviate shortages, the national nursing shortage will continue to be one of the greatest challenges to the health care industry for many years, according to a report issued by Fitch Ratings, an international credit rating agency based in New York City.
-
-
When the case managers at HealthPartners work with patients who are at risk for clinical complications, they focus on helping their clients meet personal goals, not those of the health care organization.
-
When a member of Worcester, MA-based Fallon Community Health Plan is newly diagnosed with HIV-AIDS, the first person he or she is likely to see is Rita Wesolowski, RN, BSN, ACRN, the HIV-AIDS on-site care manager.
-
There are two critical times when patients newly diagnosed with depression are likely to stop taking their medicine the early weeks of treatment and after three months when they start to feel better, says Laura Schneider, LSCW, CEAP, manager of assistance programs and the Taking Charge of Depression Program for PacifiCare Behavioral Health.
-
Before Health Plan Alliance started HeartSmart Sisters, a cardiovascular disease management program, the health plan held focus groups to determine what interventions would be most effective with its targeted group, African-American women.
-
-
Prevention researchers presented a sobering picture of the challenges that remain in reducing HIV transmission and increasing HIV testing and treatment at the 2003 National HIV Prevention Conference recently held in Atlanta.
-
In the same summer that the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) latest data show that injection drug use remains a major factor in AIDS cases, a new study offers evidence that needle exchange programs do not cause an increase in injection drug use.
