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Tuesday, May 9, 2017

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Nurses Week: Give the Gift of Good Health
The Healthy Nurse Healthy Nation Grand Challenge offers nurses an opportunity to give themselves the gift of good health.
 

NEWS & ANALYSIS

Medicare Failed To Investigate Suspicious Infection Cases From 96 Hospitals
The lapse was discovered as by an OIG study designed to address concerns over whether hospitals are “gaming” a system in which it falls to the hospitals to report patient-infection rates.
Should Health Care Trainees Be Treated As Paid Employees?
Proposed legislation in California would require hospitals and clinics to pay minimum wage to students who are completing the training hours necessary to become allied health professionals.
How Much Should Hospital Trustees Know About Patient Safety?
They think they know a lot, research shows. But patient safety professionals are not as confident in trustee knowledge.
Clinicians in the C-Suite
Leveraging physicians and nurses who care as much about the healthcare business as they do patients.
Opioid Use Drops, Pain Management Improves with Intraoperative Methadone
Patients treated with methadone during spinal fusion surgery required less hydromorphone and reported improved satisfaction with pain management.
 

AROUND THE WEB

U.S. life expectancy varies by more than 20 years from county to county
Source: The Washington Post
Loneliness in seniors: A medical problem this provider thinks it can solve
Source: Stat
Fresh food by prescription: Geisinger Health is trimming costs
Source: NPR
Are anti-vaccine activists causing one of the biggest measles outbreaks in decades?
Source: San Diego Times Union
Deaf patients get go-ahead to sue FL hospital
Source: Palm Beach Post
 

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