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With almost 49% of the respondents to the 2007 Same-Day Surgery Salary Survey reporting that their staff sizes have increased during the past year, the challenge of recruiting new employees and retaining experienced employees grows and is exacerbated by the nursing shortage and the aging of the work force.
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When a patient death occurs in outpatient surgery, you do have a choice about whether you report the occurrence to The Joint Commission.
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There are some situations that come up repeatedly in ambulatory surgery settings that can be life threatening, warns Anne Dean Schilling, RN, BSN, consultant with The ADA Group, a DeLand, FL-based consulting firm specializing in ambulatory surgical development and regulatory compliance.
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I had the pleasure of touring several facilities since last month. Three surgery centers and two hospital surgical departments stand out.
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Although blunt suture needles are rare in the operating room, other safer practices have begun to take hold.
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A newly diagnosed diabetic, we'll call him Mr. Smith, called in to Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Health Coach Connection because his doctor had told him he needed to undergo gastric bypass surgery if he was going to live another 10 years.
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Pancreatic cancer makes headlines when someone famous dies of the disease such as Luciano Pavarotti, the world-renowned opera singer that lost his fight with the disease in early September 2007.
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A multidisciplinary care management program for young Medicaid beneficiaries with complex conditions has resulted in significant increases in members' use of effective treatments and services.
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Members with chronic conditions that put them at risk for high health care costs but don't fall into traditional disease management programs are learning how to manage their conditions through the ComplexCare program from Health Management Corp.
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The "yes-means-no" phenomenon was one of several challenges encountered by the team conducting a community case management pilot project for diabetes patients in Nogales, AZ, says Donna Zazworsky, RN, MS, CCM, FAAN, diabetes care center manager for the Tucson-based Carondelet Health Network.
