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Health Care Among Nation’s Top Industries For Jobs

September 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

Looking for a job? Focus on the health care industry – that’s where hiring is picking up.

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Barbara Coombs Lee: Medical Society of New York Fights Palliative Care Information Act Despite Mounting Evidence

September 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

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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Tags: health-care · medical information · medicine · politics

Provision in Health Care Reform Law Gives Primary Care Financial Boost

September 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

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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Tags: family · health-care · medicine

Jane Wales: Health Care Reform: Philanthropy’s Educational Role

September 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

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 Professionals and Advocates from 84 Countries to Issue Declaration that Access to Pain Management is a …

September 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

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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Tags: family · health-care · medicine

Researchers recommend health care organizations for LSAEs disclosure

September 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

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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Health care critics speak

September 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

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 cuts 10 jobs

September 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

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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Tags: family · health-care · politics

New health care program begins in Illinois

September 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

A new health care program in Illinois went into effect Thursday to provide expanded coverage to many across the state.

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Home Health Care Takes A Hit

September 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

In trading Thursday, home health care shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 1.3%.

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Tags: family · health-care