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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has approved a new infection control standard that requires accredited organizations to offer influenza vaccinations to staff, which includes volunteers, and licensed independent practitioners with close patient contact.
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Case managers in rural hospitals have to think outside the box and find creative solutions to problems that their big city counterparts rarely face.
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A case manager in a rural setting often is responsible for what it takes an entire case management department to do in a big city hospital.
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A documentation improvement program in which care managers and coders work as a team resulted in an increase in revenue of more than $1 million in 2005 for United Health Service Hospital in Johnson City, NY.
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Since the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' (JCAHO) unannounced survey process began in January, the average number of requirements for improvement (RFIs) given to hospitals has increased to 6.9 as of April 2006, compared with 5.8 in 2005.
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An initiative to improve the health of pregnant women and their infants and toddlers has resulted in a drop in the infant mortality rate for Crozer-Keystone Health System.
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Having a dedicated social worker who works with local homeless shelters to place patients has significantly reduced the length of stay for homeless patients at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will extend coverage for the home use of oxygen to Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in a CMS-approved clinical trial sponsored by the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute.
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While the amount of money Medicare spends on chronically ill patients varies greatly from state to state, researchers at Dartmouth Medical School found no correlation between higher spending and better health.
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