This one will be interesting to see the outcome. From what I have seen, there is more emphasis on working with people to live in a home environment instead of being in a facility, but each case I am guessing has to be looked at on it’s own, but on the other hand if we have the “money” issue coming in...
Desperate hospitals taking desperate measures, with none of this being legal and lead a couple arrests with more to come. Empty beds cost hospitals money, so was this an attempt to fill the beds or fill some pockets. Over 50% of the hospitals in the US border on insolvency. ...
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on 08-06-2008
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Recently with all the discussion on catheters and hospital acquired infections, I had the opportunity to conduct an interview with Thomas Cherry from Cook Medical to find out a little bit more on the topic. As mentioned in the interview, CMS is imposing some new rules starting in October that pretty...
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on 08-06-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, medicare, Cook Medical, Medicaid, CMS, HAI, Catheters, hospital acquired infection, imprenated catheters, CRBSI
AARP gets in to action with their letter to congress relative to the pending Medicare and Medicaid budget cuts as it will mean reduced medical care for seniors and those on Medicaid as the states will not be able to sustain the expense alone…BD AARP today sent a letter to Congressional leaders...
Sine the closing of Martin Luther King Hospital, things have been a little bit crazy in trying to cover the residents who depended on the hospital. When a 911 call goes out, patients don’t know where they will end up, St. Francis, Kaiser, or Long Beach. Most residents are on Medicaid, in California known...