Following the success of a program that provides remote monitoring of chronically ill patients in poverty-stricken rural areas, Roanoke Chowan Community Health Center in Ahoskie, NC, is replicating the program at six other community health centers in North Carolina.
Amputation, anaphylactic shock, asthmatic reaction, cardiac arrest, convulsion, seizure, diabetic emergency, head injury, heat stroke, and pneumothorax.
A long-term machine operator employee in his 60s was working in the pocketed coil department at an Atlanta, GA-based Simmons Bedding Co. factory, when he suffered a sudden massive heart attack.
Despite the recession, incentives paid to employees for participation in health and wellness programs show no signs of slowing down.
