The Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Immunization has created a free, downloadable handwashing poster targeted at children.
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The Department of Veteran Affairs National Center for Patient Safety has published a free, downloadable poster to help ensure correct surgery.
Nap Gary, chief operating officer for Regent Surgical Health, discusses one of the management company's most successful ASC turnarounds, Marietta (Ohio) Surgery Center.
The FDA has developed a free, downloadable checklist for patients on how to use and maintain their medical device safely and effectively in your home.
Linda Phillips, RN, administrator of Southgate (Mich.) Surgery Center, discusses how her surgery center successfully moved from a single-specialty ophthalmology center to a multi-specialty ASC with GI and pain.
Subsidies provided to laid-off workers to help them continue health insurance coverage close today, raising concerns about how the unemployed will cover insurance costs, according to a Tennessean report.
Kansas signed a $135 million contract this week for a new state computer system designed to centralize applications for Medicaid, according to a Kansas Reporter report.
In mid-July, CMS issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Making, seeking comment on a rule that addresses changes to the 2012 CMS Physician Fee Schedule.
Wellmark, Iowa's primary health insurer, is unsure whether it will participate in the state's planned health insurance exchange, a move that could jeopardize the initiative, according to a Des Moines Register report.
Using a simulation model, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and at Oxford University forecast 65 million more obese adults in the United States by 2030, according to a Lancet report.