Millions of elderly and disabled Americans live in nursing, assisted living and other care facilities. While patients and their families admit patients to these facility rightly expect these care providers to appropriately and safely care […]
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Empowering Dying Patients Through Choice
The self-composed obituary of Sonia Todd is a touching reminder of the power and importance of patient choice even for patients facing death. The success of our health science and the ever extraordinary miracles […]
No Greater Gift
Remembering those who serve, those who made it home and those that didn’t. Happy Memoria Day!
Give HHS Input By 6/26 On Changing Nursing Home (SNF) Rules
June 26, 2017 is the deadline to submit comments to the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on changes to Medicare’s Skilled Nursing Facility (nursing home) reimbursement, […]
Tell Congress To Vote on Obamacare Reform Starting With House’s Vote Tonight
The US House of Representatives is scheduled to vote again tonight on the revised Majority-leadership lead first step healthcare reform legislation seeking to provide Americans and American business with some initial relief from the soaring […]
6/10 Americans Want Drug Costs Fixed
A new Kaiser Foundation poll shows six in ten Americans say lowering the cost of prescription drugs is a “top priority.” Support for prescription drug pricing reform spans majorities of Democrats, Republicans, and independents. […]
Celebrate DNA Day With Noon CT Twitter Chat
April 25 is National DNA Day! Celebrate by joining in as NASA Astronaut Dr. Kate Rubins teams up with NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, NHGRI Director Dr. Eric Green and the National Human Genome Research […]
Review & Comment on AHRQ Health Care Quality Research & Summaries
Health care providers, patients, payers and others concerned about the promotion of health care quality should monitor and consider providing input and feedback to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) efforts to improve […]
Updated Pandemic Influenza Mitigation Guidelines Released
The Centers for Disease Control just released its updated Community Mitigation Guidelines to Prevent Pandemic Influenza — United States, 2017. The guidelines update and expand the 2007 strategy for nonpharmaceutical interventions, which are strategies for disease, […]