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The Massachusetts Avenue of health reform

The Health Policy Exchange

Bush Administration and reached an agreement to redirect a multi-million dollar fund for Massachusetts hospitals to provide subsidized health insurance for lower income workers. in 2006 to 1.9% Together, Romney and Kennedy approached the George W. Health reform in Massachusetts has been judged a mixed success.

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How hospitals can cut admission delays by 30%

Today's Hospitalist

Those interventions included standardizing both bed assignments and nursing handoffs while having ED providers—not an inpatient team—enter skeletal orders when deciding to admit a patient. “Typically, our ED providers are attendings who’ve been at the VA for years,” says Dr. Baskin. Based in Bucks County, Pa.,

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Bouncebacks from SNFs: How one health system is making progress

Today's Hospitalist

WITH PATIENT ACUITY levels rising in hospitals, it makes sense that the patients being discharged to SNFs are likewise increasingly complex. That’s when the health system turned to a company that provides a turnkey SNF-care program. Those data can provide clues that patients may be starting to struggle at home.

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A Question 30 Years in the Making: Would a Final LDT Rule Withstand Judicial Scrutiny?

FDA Law Blog

However, FDA states that this exemption does not apply to corporate or hospital laboratories that employ licensed practitioners, and the agency says FD&C Act otherwise contains no exception or limitation for devices manufactured by laboratories. This comparison is misplaced.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

2006 Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Eric: And we have Tasce Bongiovanni, who is an acute care trauma surgeon at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital. Eric: Any other interesting tidbits or facts that we should know as providers about gabapentin or Lyrica dosing or pharmacology? Annals of IM.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. And that grew into a group of volunteers coming back and at least providing support groups, giving those men a place where they could talk at least. Michele: Yep.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. Eric: And Susan?