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It's hard to imagine a scenario of greater emotion, conflic, and potential risk than when a mental health worker visits the home of a mentally unstable person to evaluate them for involuntary psychiatric commitment.
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Has the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration become a weak-willed agency that fails to protect workers from many modern-day workplace hazards? That was the resonating question as the Democratic-controlled Congress bore down on the agency with oversight hearings.
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In a pandemic influenza outbreak, your employees will be your most critical resource. That's why hospitals should act now to identify key personnel, provide employee training, and ensure the supply of adequate personal protective equipment.
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If a pandemic strikes, masks can be used along with "social distancing" and hand hygiene to protect against community transmission, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced.
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With an ever-expanding range of hazardous drugs, hospitals must identify employees at risk and conduct medical surveillance at least annually, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
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According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the minimum elements of a medical surveillance program for hazardous drugs are included in this article.
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Faced with a shortage of hospital beds that extends throughout the state of Washington, St. Joseph's Medical Center in Tacoma has embarked on an "express discharge" initiative, which alerts the treatment team a day in advance when physicians anticipate the patient is almost ready for discharge.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has not yet issued its final rule for fiscal year 2008, but it'sï
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Morton Plant Mease Health Care in Clearwater, FL, has found an effective way to fill case management vacancies with qualified candidates.
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An accident has left John, 52, with a C-4 cervical-level fracture, and the prognosis is that he will remain a quadriplegic. Hospitalized in the intensive care unit, John has been assigned a catastrophic case manager, who has met with him and his wife, Mary.
