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Investigation: Dangerous Caregivers Missing From Federal Database Of Disciplinary Records
Categorie : Caregivers / HomecareNews outlets report on health care fraud and legal issues, including missing disciplinary records in a federal database of dangerous caregivers and a new federal bill that would target fake Medicare claims for prescriptions and equipment... ...
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Fri Mar 2010
New Book Suggests Workplace Gendered Tradeoffs Lead To Economic Inequalities For Women
Categorie : Caregivers / HomecareDespite big changes over recent decades, workplace gender inequalities endure in the United States and other industrialized nations around the world. These inequalities are created by facets of national social policy that either ease or concentrate the demands of care giving within households and s ...
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'A Troubling Picture' Of Long-Term Care Hospitals
Categorie : Caregivers / Homecare"Lawsuits, state inspections and federal statistics paint a troubling picture of the care offered at some hospitals," writes The New York Times in an investigation of long-term care hospitals that dominates the front page... ...
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Better Care At Any Hour For Palliative Patients
Categorie : Caregivers / HomecareAccessing out of hours care is still a challenge for UK palliative care patients, even several years after the introduction of phone help line services like NHS24 and NHS Direct. Scottish researchers have specific recommendations for a more detailed and regular communication strategy to improve pati ...
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Home Palliative Sedation Checklist May Ease Concerns
Categorie : Caregivers / HomecareCan patients near death safely receive sedation at home, fully respecting their own and their families' wishes? This practice, which is on the rise, is coming under increasing scrutiny and debate by palliative care researchers and practitioners... ...
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£1.9m To Improve Care For Thalidomide Survivors In Wales
Categorie : Caregivers / HomecareFirst Minister Carwyn Jones announced on Friday £1.9million for the Thalidomide Trust to improve the care and support for thalidomide survivors in Wales. The funding which will be available from April will be distributed amongst survivors to help meet their health needs and minimise any further ...
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How Health Care Is Paid For Appears To Impact Outcome
Categorie : Caregivers / HomecareWhether an individual is treated for a hip fracture at a hospital reimbursed by Medicare or is treated at a Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center makes a significant difference in what happens to the patient after release from the medical facility, according to a large study which may contri ...
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Connecticut Has Especially High Insurance Hikes, Disability Advocates Worry About Medicaid Cuts In Tennessee
Categorie : Caregivers / HomecareThe Hartford Courant: "With average rate hikes at 13 percent or more this year for most plans, Connecticut health insurance premiums appear to be rising faster than the nation's. A typical family plan in Connecticut sold through an employer costs about $14,500 -- an estimate based on the Kai ...
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Yearlong Study To Focus On Evaluating Potential Benefits Of Remote Monitoring Device For Home-Based Patient Care
Categorie : Caregivers / HomecareGE Healthcare, Intel Corporation and Mayo Clinic are investigating a new model of health care delivery for patients at increased risk of rehospitalization that is designed to meet patients' needs where they are, including in their homes... ...
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Kansas Lawmakers Debate Legality Of Health Insurance Mandate Amendment
Categorie : Caregivers / HomecareKansas Health Institute: "Republicans and Democrats were sharply divided Tuesday over a proposed constitutional amendment that sponsors said would let federal officials know Kansans don't want to be told by the government that they must buy health insurance... ...
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South Carolina, Oklahoma And Arkansas Grapple With Medicaid Cuts To Help Balance Budget
Categorie : Caregivers / HomecareStates consider major cuts to Medicaid services and reimbursement rates to help fill gaps in the budget. The Associated Press: "Lawmakers are considering cutting all services for nearly 26,000 people with disabilities as South Carolina tries to plug a $560 million budget hole... ...
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Hospices Not Deactivating Defibrillators In Patients -- Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators Cause Unnecessary Suffering In End-of-Life Patients
Categorie : Caregivers / HomecareResearchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that patients admitted to hospice care who have an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) are rarely having their ICDs deactivated and are receiving electrical shocks from these devices near the end of life... ...
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Some Parents Weigh "Hastening Death" For Children In Extreme Pain With Terminal Cancer
Categorie : Caregivers / HomecareA survey of parents who had a child die of cancer found that one in eight considered hastening their child's death, a deliberation influenced by the amount of pain the child experienced during the last month of life, report Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers in the March issue of Archives of P ...
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'Project HealthDesign' Grant From The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Integrates Daily Information About Babies' Health Into Clinical Care
Categorie : Caregivers / HomecareResearchers at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science and UC Irvine will monitor the day-to-day health of low-birth-weight babies and their parents as part of a comprehensive initiative designed to combat chronic illnesses associated with low-weight births... ...
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One In Five Nursing Homes Receive Poor Quality Ratings, Analysis Finds
Categorie : Caregivers / HomecareUSA Today: "One in five of the nation's 15,700 nursing homes have consistently received poor ratings for overall quality, a USA Today analysis of new government data finds... ...
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Early Foster Care Boosts Quality Of Institutionalized Children's Ties To Caregivers
Categorie : Caregivers / HomecareA new study of young children in orphanages in Bucharest, Romania, has found that children placed in foster care before age 2 were more apt to develop secure attachments to their foster parents than those who entered foster care after age 2... ...
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Children's Learning May Be Influenced By Length Of Time In Institutional Care
Categorie : Caregivers / HomecareThe amount of time children spend in institutional care may affect how their brains develop. That's the conclusion of a new study carried out by researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Harvard Medical School/Children's Hospital Boston, and the University of Minnesota. The study is published in C ...
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Investigation: Washington State Moves Medicaid Nursing Home Patients To Adult Family Homes
Categorie : Caregivers / HomecareThe Seattle Times investigates Washington's practice of relocating some Medicaid patients from nursing homes to adult family homes. "Jeri Ringseth had no business being in an adult family home. Her physical and mental disabilities are so significant that she's spent most of her adult life in nursin ...
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KHN Column: Obama's Respite Care Plan - Part Of The Problem, Not A Solution
Categorie : Caregivers / HomecareIn his latest Kaiser Health News column, Howard Gleckman writes: "President Barack Obama wants to increase funding for a government program intended to make it easier for family caregivers to get respite care. These hard-pressed families desperately need the helping hand. But the White House initia ...
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Bupa Supports Prime Minister's Aim For People To Be Treated At Home
Categorie : Caregivers / HomecareOn Monday, the Prime Minister gave a speech in which he called for more people to be treated in their own homes by the NHS in future. As a partner to the NHS, in providing healthcare in their own homes to 14,000 patients, many with complex conditions, Bupa the leading international healthcare com ...
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