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8th Annual PHTS Safe Patient Handling Conference
Handling and transferring patients safely is a major concern due to the risk of injury to both patients and healthcare workers. Astute observers recognize we need new concepts and tools to prevent and manage these types of injuries, which typically claim a larger portion of workers’ compensation...[MORE]
Article 893 SCWCC Commissioner Beck elected Interim Chairman
At its Business Meeting on June 21, the SC Workers' Compensation Commission elected Commissioner T. Scott Beck as Interim Chairman effective July 1, 2010, replacing Commissioner Andrea C. Roche, whose two-year term as Chairman expired on June 30, 2010. Chairman Beck's current term on the ...[MORE]
Article 892 OIG recovers more than $3 billion in six months
In its “Semiannual Report to Congress,” the Office of Inspector General (OIG), Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), announced expected recoveries of more than $3 billion for the first half of fiscal year (FY) 2010. Specifically, OIG’s expected recoveries for October 2009 through March ...[MORE]
Article 891 Doctors, nurses among those arrested for Medicare Fraud
Several doctors and nurses were among those arrested in Miami, New York, Detroit, Houston, and Baton Rouge and accused of billing Medicare for unnecessary equipment, physical therapy and HIV treatments. Federal authorities have indicted 94 suspects for defrauding Medicare of $251 million. ...[MORE]
Article 890 Karen Daley: A needlestick changed ANA president’s life
Karen Daley, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, recently elected president of the American Nurses Association, knows firsthand the devastating consequences of a sharps injury. In July 1998, while disposing of a needle after drawing blood from a patient in the ED, she was stuck by a needle protruding from the ...[MORE]
8/5/2010
8th Annual PHTS Safe Patient Handling Conference
 

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