Looking for a job? Focus on the health care industry – that’s where hiring is picking up.
Looking for a job? Focus on the health care industry – that’s where hiring is picking up.
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The ink of Governor Paterson’s signature is barely dry on New York’s Palliative Care Information Act (PCIA), drafted and sponsored by Compassion & Choices and…
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Although the recently enacted health care reform legislation contains a number of provisions designed to make primary care the foundation of health care reform in the United States, one of those provisions is generating a lot of family physician interest because it calls for incentive payments for physicians who provide primary care services.
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Think the debate over health care reform is over? President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in late March after nearly a year of debate and deliberation. But the real work is only just beginning.
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Health care providers and researchers in the field of pain management are calling for governments worldwide to recognize the rights of people to the access of reasonable care for acute and chronic pain.
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Health care organizations should disclose medical mistakes that affect multiple patients even if patients were not harmed by the event, according to an AHRQ-funded research paper published in the September 2 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Ricky Landry, of Zuppardo’s Family Supermarket, in Metairie, is concerned that the new federal health-care plan will force his business to increase grocery prices.
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Penobscot Community Health Care is the latest Bangor area health care organization to lay off staff members in the name economic efficiency.
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A new health care program in Illinois went into effect Thursday to provide expanded coverage to many across the state.
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In trading Thursday, home health care shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 1.3%.
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