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The TB doctor stood and made her plea. Annual fit-testing is a waste of time and resources, she said. She and her staff dont even wear masks and they dont become infected, the doctor added.
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Boosting health care worker flu vaccination has been tough during a vaccine shortage. But commitment to this goal hasnt waned for two hospitals that are launching mandatory vaccination programs.
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Self Regional Healthcare in Greenwood, SC, isnt satisfied with a 48% reduction in needlesticks or a 53% decline in the recordable injury rate. In fact, Self Regional has raised the bar much higher than that. Our overall goal is to be safest hospital in the nation, says Mary Margaret Jackson, CPHQ, director of Performance Outcome Services.
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When a series of four hurricanes hit the coasts of Florida during August and September 2004, it was the worst of times and the best of times, says the regional patient access director for Hospital Corporation of Americas Tampa region.
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By implementing a comprehensive full circle of training for patient access employees which ultimately led to the creation of two new areas within the department Marlton, NJ-based Virtua Health has dramatically increased both registration accuracy and employee satisfaction, says the corporate multisite administrator for patient business services for the 1,051-bed system.
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This is a journey; well know weve arrived when they dont need us anymore, says the director of service excellence for Providence Health System in Portland, OR. My goal is to work myself out of a job.
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U.S. hospitals provided $24.9 billion in uncompensated care in 2003, up from $22.3 billion in 2002, according to the latest American Hospital Association Annual Survey of Hospitals.
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A survey of providers, health plans, patient representatives, and others conducted by Congress General Accounting Office found providers and health plans believe that implementation of the HIPAA privacy rule went more smoothly than expected in its first year,
but that two provisions of the rule are unnecessarily burdensome.
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What used to be a fairly routine occurrence for many health care providers supplying copies of patient medical records on request is becoming a major issue under HIPAA because of questions about how much can be charged for a copy of the record and the service under the HIPAA privacy rule and various state laws.
