When asked, "What is keeping you from addressing this issue?" the
number one response was "Don't know how to begin."
"Preventing staff injury is good business from the financial
standpoint, but also, it is the right thing to do," said Gary
Brunslik, Manager of Safety for the winning facility.
"This should be a call to action for all health plans and employers to
help workers quit tobacco. It's clear that physical health and fiscal
health go hand-in-hand," said Dr. Mike Crutcher, Oklahoma's Secretary
of Health and Commissioner of Health.
The initiative includes a $1 million grant program aimed at the
prevention of HACs targeted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services.
"What was in the air that day? Pretty much everything that had been in
two 100-story buildings--but in vaporized form," writes Mike Magee,
M.D. in this week's issue of Health Commentary.
"Our hope is that this gift will increase the chance of survival for
students, faculty, and visitors who may suffer sudden cardiac arrest
while at school or attending campus activities," said Texas Health
Resources CEO Douglas D. Hawthorne, FACHE.
Cases have doubled in the past decade, and severe cases in younger miners are a cause for concern. A NIOSH mobile health screening unit will visit six states in FY09.
Eighteen California hospitals have been assessed administrative penalties of $25,000 per incident from the state after a determination that the facilities' noncompliance with requirements of licensure has caused, or was likely to cause, serious injury or death to patients.
This new Indoor Air Research Facility on NRC's Ottawa Campus is part of the three-pronged project, which will evaluate effective indoor air strategies.
Fifty-one percent of employers who responded to a survey said they use
employee cost sharing as a utilization management tool. The most
common cost-sharing range is 21 percent to 30 percent.
According to a special report, people ages 65 and older are projected to represent at least 20 percent of the total U.S. population by 2030, with the number of those 85-and-older increasing the most.
Scientific advances in the field carry both the promise for early disease detection and the potential for misuse in employment discrimination or insurance coverage limitations. There also may be a significant regulatory and legal impact on employers.
A study of 12 communities shows they are coping with the challenges of uninsured and Medicaid patients by expanding and targeting the privately insured.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers who filled prescriptions at The Medicine Shoppe pharmacies in Baltimore that they may have received drugs that were either expired or suspected counterfeit.
Without immediate action to develop an integrated, comprehensive, national health workforce policy, the United States is at risk of losing its status as the global health care leader, states a new report released by the Association of Academic Health Centers.
The initiative includes materials designed to help firefighters understand the risks of smoking and how to quit. The resources are available on a new Web site at www.iaff.org/smokefree.
The U.S. Department of Energy recently launched the EnergySmart Hospitals initiative to increase the use of energy efficient technologies in hospitals across the United States.
Stony Brook University Medical Center's Long Island World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program was awarded $9 million for its medical programs until mid-July 2009.
In March, virtually all full-time employees in state and local government had access to retirement and medical benefits: 99 and 98 percent, respectively. In private industry, only 71 percent of full-time workers had access to retirement benefits and 85 percent to medical care.
In March 2007, EPA charged the firm with making false claims about the
effectiveness of its products against microbial pests.