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New book titled 'Advances in Wound Care' addresses major, escalating health problem

The publication of the new book Advances in Wound Care, addresses this major and escalating health problem. The first in an annual book series, Volume 1 strengthens the interdisciplinary continuum of wound care to synchronize the numerous disciplines the wound care community represents.

20 Apr 2010

SMRMC selects ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support order set solution

Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center (SMRMC) has selected ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support, as its electronic order set solution.

20 Apr 2010

Capital Senior Living leases five senior living communities from Health Care REIT

Capital Senior Living Corporation, one of the country's largest operators of senior living communities, today announced that Midwest Portfolio Holdings, LP, a joint venture in which the Company held an 11 percent partnership interest, has sold five senior living communities to Health Care REIT, Inc.. Upon closing the sale, the Company leased the communities from HCN. The Company previously managed the five communities in the joint venture under long-term management agreements.

20 Apr 2010

Four-year dual degree program to address public health workforce shortage

To address the forecasted public health workforce shortage, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio have created a four-year Doctor of Medicine /Master of Public Health program.

20 Apr 2010

Hematological malignancies conference to provide update on blood-borne cancer

John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center will host a hematological malignancies conference for physicians and patients on Friday, April 23 and Saturday, April 24. The event, entitled "Current and Innovative Modalities in the Management of Hematological Malignancies", is part of John Theurer Cancer Center's commitment to provide both healthcare professionals as well as patients with an update on the newest advances in the field of blood-borne cancers.

20 Apr 2010

KIKA Clinical Solutions, Carestream Health announce strategic knowledge transfer program

KIKA™ Clinical Solutions, the leader in advanced EDC solutions for Clinical Asset Management™, announced that Carestream Health, Inc., will work with KIKA to perform a knowledge transfer for use of KIKA's technology on six global clinical trials that require electronic data capture this year.

20 Apr 2010

House markup of supplemental spending bill that includes Haiti relief delayed one week

A supplemental spending bill that is expected to include earthquake relief aid for Haiti will be considered by the full House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee during the week of April 26 and will not be written this week as several aides and members had anticipated, C.W. Bill Young, the committee's ranking Republican from Florida, said, CQ Today reports.

20 Apr 2010

Ga. couple allegedly took Medicare, Medicaid payments while patients were shorted food, medicine

The Atlanta Journal Constitution: "George D. Houser, 62, and his wife, 46-year-old Rhonda Washington Houser, were arraigned Friday on charges of conspiring to defraud the Medicare and Georgia Medicaid programs. George Houser also faces charges for allegedly failing to pay payroll taxes to the IRS and file personal income tax returns."

20 Apr 2010

NHC opens The Palmettos of Mauldin center

National HealthCare Corporation, one of the nation's leading operators of senior care services, announced today that it has recently opened The Palmettos of Mauldin, a 45 unit assisted living community at 810 E. Butler Road in Mauldin, South Carolina near Greenville.

20 Apr 2010

Mount Sinai School of Medicine ranked 18th among America's medical schools

The 2011 US News & World Report has ranked Mount Sinai School of Medicine 18th out of 146 medical schools and schools of osteopathic medicine nationwide, jumping from 32nd in 2005. Mount Sinai's improvement in the rankings is one of the largest by any institution.

20 Apr 2010

Free Rite Aid wellness+ customer rewards program

Rite Aid customers and patients nationwide now can sign up for Rite Aid's new wellness+ customer rewards program that provides members with free health and wellness benefits, as well as shopping discounts and special prices. The program will be supported by a national television, radio, circular and digital advertising campaign.

20 Apr 2010

Affordable Care Act expands opportunity for younger Americans to get insurance coverage

Expanding the opportunity for younger Americans to get insurance coverage is a top priority for the Administration. The Affordable Care Act offers the option for most children under the age of 26 to stay on their parents' policy. This is a group of people who have traditionally either been unable to afford coverage or have not had access to it.

20 Apr 2010

Avian flu's endurance in 5 countries poses global threat to human health, FAO official says

Though the world has made "great strides" in eliminating H5N1 (avian flu) from poultry since the "peak of its outbreak in 2006" in 63 countries, the virus persists in Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Indonesia and Vietnam, VOA News reports (DeCapua, 4/16).

20 Apr 2010

State Roundup: Calif. hospitals billing questioned; N.Y. hospitals among the weakest financially in the nation

The Sacramento Bee: An analysis of financial data from 300 California hospitals "shows they collected $25 billion from insurance companies between September 2008 and October 2009 - an increase of more than a third since 2005. Hospitals are charging insurance companies, and by extension their customers, billions of dollars for expenses not directly related to care.

20 Apr 2010

Opinions: PEPFAR; Private-civil society partnerships in Africa; Global maternal mortality; SA HIV testing campaign

"The Obama administration's new Global Health Initiative, designed to broaden and better integrate health programming overseas, deserves wide support. But stalling on global AIDS threatens to undermine the worthy goals of the initiative," Chris Collins, vice president and director of public polity for the Foundation for AIDS Research, writes in a Boston Globe letter to the editor calling for sustained support for PEPFAR.

20 Apr 2010

More dramas with Queensland Health payroll

Health worker salaries for the Queensland Health payroll have been going into bank accounts but have also been leaving a number of people unpaid. The Australian Services Union which represents the Queensland Health payroll staff is not too optimistic about the pay blunders being sorted out this pay cycle.

20 Apr 2010

Increased health care costs concerns 99.4% of employers

Results of the 2010 UBA Employer Opinion Survey indicate that nearly all (99.4 percent) top decision makers are concerned with the impact of health care costs are having or are going to have on their overall corporate costs, according to newly released data.

20 Apr 2010

ITI granted AOAC approval for additional Salmonella matrices

Idaho Technology, Inc. (ITI) has received AOAC Performance Tested Method approval for two additional Salmonella matrices—stainless steel environmental samples and dry pet food. These matrices join the list of already approved matrices in the Salmonella LT Food Security System including chocolate, cooked ham, fresh raw chicken, lettuce, raw ground beef, and liquid whole eggs. This assay uses real-time PCR technology to identify the presence of Salmonella in less than one hour after a pre-enrichment period.

20 Apr 2010

Rudd offers more funding for health overhaul

With the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in talks with the state and territory leaders in Canberra at Parliament House the country waits to see the result of the discussions on the health reforms. The Premiers of Western Australia, Colin Barnett and Victoria, John Brumby, have both been fighting against the federal government’s desire to take away their GST money. At the same time the New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally has been asking for a sustainable health system plan that does not affect the tax payers.

20 Apr 2010

KHN column -- Report from Michigan: What state residents stand to gain from health reform

On their way to Washington last week, Tea Party activists stopped in Lansing, Michigan. And among the officials who addressed them was Mike Cox, the state's Republican attorney general.

20 Apr 2010

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New book titled 'Advances in Wound Care' addresses major, escalating health problem

SMRMC selects ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support order set solution

Capital Senior Living leases five senior living communities from Health Care REIT

Four-year dual degree program to address public health workforce shortage

Hematological malignancies conference to provide update on blood-borne cancer

KIKA Clinical Solutions, Carestream Health announce strategic knowledge transfer program

House markup of supplemental spending bill that includes Haiti relief delayed one week

Ga. couple allegedly took Medicare, Medicaid payments while patients were shorted food, medicine

NHC opens The Palmettos of Mauldin center

Mount Sinai School of Medicine ranked 18th among America's medical schools

Free Rite Aid wellness+ customer rewards program

Affordable Care Act expands opportunity for younger Americans to get insurance coverage

Avian flu's endurance in 5 countries poses global threat to human health, FAO official says

State Roundup: Calif. hospitals billing questioned; N.Y. hospitals among the weakest financially in the nation

Opinions: PEPFAR; Private-civil society partnerships in Africa; Global maternal mortality; SA HIV testing campaign

More dramas with Queensland Health payroll

Increased health care costs concerns 99.4% of employers

ITI granted AOAC approval for additional Salmonella matrices

Rudd offers more funding for health overhaul

KHN column -- Report from Michigan: What state residents stand to gain from health reform

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