Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to Richard Haugh.
With the nation's highest rate of uninsured, strict new nurse staffing ratios and other pressures converging all at once, California's hospitals are "on life support" says C. Duane Dauner, president of the state hospital association. "The meltdown we've been warning about for several years is at hand."
Senior executives pay relatively scant attention to their hospital's utility bills. They are a relatively small portion of overall costs, and anyway, executives reason, not much can be done about them. But innovative energy managers dispute such thinking. They're attacking the problem from entirely new angles, and the savings for hospitals can be significant.
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Treating patients' pain is a new priority for health care providers, spurred by research that dramatically demonstrates the impact pain has on illness and recovery and by pressure from the Joint Commission and patient advocates. Hospitals are confronting the newfound knowledge head-on, setting up pain management programs that offer clinical, rehabilitative and counseling help utilizing traditional and nontraditional methods.
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This spring saw a welcome thaw in the icy relations between some hospitals and physicians, as it dawns on both sides that cooperation, not alienation, is essential for them to flourish. By nurturing new kinds of alliances and reviving some old but fallow practices, doctors and physicians expect to reap a bouquet of mutual rewards.
All of health care continues to hold its collective breath waiting for the Health and Human Services Department to give its final blessing to a new and improved coding system, ICD-10. But that wait could go on for a few more years.
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As congress debates med-mal fixes, states are once again proving to be laboratories for reform. Legislators and providers are looking for innovative ways to curb the rising costs of liability insurance.
Rehab services are advancing at a mind-boggling pace and the future appears limitless. But providers worry that Medicare changes and other issues could limit what's possible.
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Every advance in cancer treatment and technology heightens hopes for a cure. But proposed changes in how Medicare reimburses hospitals and physicians imperil progress.
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