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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, August 17, 2010
Forty-five states and the District of Columbia will each get $1 million in federal funds to monitor proposed health insurance premium hikes in their jurisdictions, and take action against unreasonable increases, the Department of Health and Human Services announced this week.
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By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, August 17, 2010
Routinely prompting physicians or nurses to remove unnecessary urinary catheters can halve the rate of catheter-associated urinary tract infections, researchers say.
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By: Dom Nicastro, for HealthLeaders Media, August 17, 2010
Under the proposed Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2010, healthcare entities would be in the clear so long as they complied with the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act.
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By: Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, August 17, 2010
In a case pending before the court, the American hospital Association has urged the Supreme Court to reverse an Internal Revenue Service rule addressing whether medical residents qualify as students for purposes of receiving exemptions from Social Security taxes.
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By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, August 17, 2010
Accurately recording hospital-acquired catheter-associated urinary tract infections requires a complicated three-step process that is seldom completed, researchers say.
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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, August 17, 2010
After months of bargaining with no agreement, the Minnesota Nurses Association has asked more than 900 members to turn out Wednesday to reject a contract offer from SMDC Medical Center in Duluth, and vote for a one-day walkout instead.
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By: Elyas Bakhtiari, for HealthLeaders Media, August 16, 2010
When Paul Weygandt was presenting to a room full of hospital CFOs about the potential ramifications of the not-yet-passed healthcare reform legislation last year, he asked for a show of hands of how many in the room were involved in their organization’s clinical quality program. Not many went up.
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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, August 16, 2010
By now—unless you've been prospecting for zinc in Siberia—you've probably read and heard about Steven Slater and his dramatic last day at work.
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