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Though useful, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) is warning that copy and paste can lead to fraudulent billing, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is vowing to pursue any providers who abuse the feature.
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Hospitals in two states recently were in the difficult position of having to disagree with a family about terminating life support for patients declared dead.
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Every day, nurses face a barrage of threats, insults and assaults from patients or visitors, yet almost half never report verbal or physical assaults.
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You bought lift equipment, trained your staff and added new patient mobility assessments. Yet your injuries continue. What gives?
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Older workers are generally safer workers, but there is one risk that rises steadily with age: slips, trips and falls.
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While there is no national standard requiring safe patient handling, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is making an all-out appeal to hospitals to do the right thing and to recognize the potential cost-savings.
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