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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.
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Amputation, anaphylactic shock, asthmatic reaction, cardiac arrest, convulsion, seizure, diabetic emergency, head injury, heat stroke, and pneumothorax.
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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.
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Despite the recession, incentives paid to employees for participation in health and wellness programs show no signs of slowing down.
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Support groups are a way of providing continuing education, according to health care professionals who facilitate groups with an educational format.
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Older patients who are at high risk for health care utilization are staying healthier and out of the hospital thanks to a new primary care enhancement program called "Guided Care."
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In an organization as large as Detroit, MI-based General Motors Corp., medical emergencies "are encountered with some regularity," according to Joel R. Bender, MD, PhD, MSPH, FACOEM, corporate medical director.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved four vaccines against the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, with the first lots expected to be distributed by mid-October.
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Asked about budget woes and cutbacks widely reported by infection preventionists, the president of the Joint Commission said surveyors are not seeing "any substantial increase in problems due to reduced staffing in these critical programs."
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In anticipation of a possible significant increase in demand for emergency services due to H1N1 influenza resurgence this fall many hospitals have expressed significant concerns about compliance with "patient dumping" laws, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports.
