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PCMA to support Chairman Baucus’ efforts to find common ground and advance bipartisan legislation

“PCMA supports Chairman Baucus’ continuing efforts to find common ground and advance bipartisan legislation. We look forward to reviewing Chairman Baucus’ proposal in greater detail and working constructively with the Finance Committee.

17 Sep 2009

Northeast Pennsylvania healthcare facilities collaborate to eliminate laboratory errors

Healthcare facilities in northeast Pennsylvania have come together to reduce and eliminate laboratory errors due to specimen mislabeling. Pocono Medical Center helped to spearhead the effort when they noticed they were reporting a large number of mislabeled lab specimens at their facility that coincided with data delivered in a presentation by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority.

17 Sep 2009

Parkway Medical Center ranks 28th in the Top 100 Hospital Value Index

Parkway Medical Center has been named a Top 100 Hospital™ by the 2009-2010 Hospital Value Index™, according to an independent national study of hospitals across the U.S., officials announced today.

17 Sep 2009

Operation Rescue Insurrecta Nex releases schedule of protests against health care reform

"Obama's nose keeps growing concerning 'Healthcare' and death: it is the duty of the vigilant to give him a political nose job."

17 Sep 2009

PFCD health care reform panel calls for promoting health through prevention of chronic diseases

The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (PFCD) today brought together several health care experts to discuss ways to "get back to the basics" in health reform by advancing legislation that promotes the health of all Americans through better prevention and management of chronic disease.

17 Sep 2009

Infections due to handwashing failures cause 100,000 deaths annually

At Bay Medical Center in Panama City, Florida, Compirion Healthcare Solutions, a healthcare consulting firm that was engaged to help improve ED Throughput, Finance and Core Measures compliance, found only 30% of the staff regularly washed their hands between visits with patients.

17 Sep 2009

Proposal to impose tax on insurers for individual health insurance plans is unfair and unnecessary: Teamsters

Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa today said the proposal to impose a 35 percent tax on insurers for individual health insurance plans worth more than $8,000 is unfair and unnecessary.

17 Sep 2009

Vista Health System and MedVentive to offer sophisticated medical solution to patients and physicans

Vista Health System, LLC is pleased to announce a partnership with MedVentive, the leading provider of integrated performance management solutions for providers and health plans, to provide information technology services to its member physicians to improve patient care.

17 Sep 2009

Health care system has reached a breaking point: HHS Secretary

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today released a new state by state analysis of last week’s U.S. Census numbers regarding the uninsured. The results are sobering and confirm that health insurance reform cannot wait another year.

17 Sep 2009

Military families to benefit from expansion of Health Net Federal Services

As flu season approaches, Health Net Federal Services, LLC, the government operations division of Health Net, Inc. (NYSE:HNT), is proud to expand the provider network as well as promote awareness, education and resources to encourage all TRICARE North Region U.S. service members, retirees and their families to receive the influenza vaccine and practice preventive measures to avoid the virus this season.

17 Sep 2009

Models of care developed by nurses discussed at a briefing on health care reform

Two innovative and highly successful models of care developed by nurses were the centerpiece of a briefing today on health care reform. The event, which brought together women's health leaders and health care experts, focused on the ways in which innovative health care models can help to improve efficiency, reduce costs and ensure quality care for patients and their families.

17 Sep 2009

Fourteen health insurers spend $15.5 million in the first half of 2009

Fourteen major health insurers and their industry association flexed their political muscle to the tune of $2.5 million per month - an increase of 25 percent over previous years - in the first half of 2009 to influence the health care reform debate, according to a report released today by the nonpartisan group Public Campaign Action Fund.

17 Sep 2009

NCPA happy with Baucus' proposals for community pharmacies

The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) commended Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-MT) for including several critical provisions to help community pharmacies better serve patients in the “America’s Healthy Future Act” proposed today.

17 Sep 2009

Canadian Prime Minister's silence is frustrating and disheartening, says Canadian Health Coalition

Canadians are "frustrated and disheartened" by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's silence in the face of attacks on Canada's public health care system, says Michael McBane, National Coordinator of the Canadian Health Coalition. The healthcare group is calling on the Prime Minister to show Canadians where he stands on keeping Canada's health care system public.

17 Sep 2009

Regence BlueCross BlueShield on the health reform bill

I applaud Chairman Baucus and his working group of senators for their bipartisan work on health reform. By introducing a bill today, Chairman Baucus has moved our nation forward on the difficult yet important road to reform.

17 Sep 2009

Will undocumented immigrants be covered under 'health care' or 'health coverage'?

Contending that President Barack Obama and U.S. Congressman Joe Wilson were both right and both wrong in their much noted confrontation during the President's address to Congress on Wednesday, the Foundation for Health Coverage Education (FHCE), www.coverageforall.org, points out that the issue is with the definition of health coverage versus health care for undocumented immigrants in HR3200, the House's version of healthcare reform legislation.

17 Sep 2009

Senate Finance Committee proposes cuts for home medical equipment

This morning, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) issued his recommendations for healthcare reform in his long-awaited "Chairman's mark" version of the bill.

17 Sep 2009

New legislation protects healthcare coverage for rare disease clinical trial participants

Four members of the United States Senate introduced legislation today to allow patients with rare diseases to participate in clinical drug studies without losing their eligibility for public healthcare coverage, echoing a move by the House of Representatives last month.

17 Sep 2009

Older Americans coping with financial crisis relatively well: Study

Older Americans have weathered the financial crisis relatively well, although many now expect to work longer than they did just a year ago, according to a University of Michigan study released on Capitol Hill today (Sept. 16).

17 Sep 2009

Coalition to Protect Patients’ Rights opposes cuts to Medicare

The doctor-led Coalition to Protect Patients’ Rights (Coalition) urged caution to legislators and the public as they consider Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus’s healthcare reform proposal, America's Healthy Future Act of 2009, which was released today.

17 Sep 2009

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PCMA to support Chairman Baucus’ efforts to find common ground and advance bipartisan legislation

Northeast Pennsylvania healthcare facilities collaborate to eliminate laboratory errors

Parkway Medical Center ranks 28th in the Top 100 Hospital Value Index

Operation Rescue Insurrecta Nex releases schedule of protests against health care reform

PFCD health care reform panel calls for promoting health through prevention of chronic diseases

Infections due to handwashing failures cause 100,000 deaths annually

Proposal to impose tax on insurers for individual health insurance plans is unfair and unnecessary: Teamsters

Vista Health System and MedVentive to offer sophisticated medical solution to patients and physicans

Health care system has reached a breaking point: HHS Secretary

Military families to benefit from expansion of Health Net Federal Services

Models of care developed by nurses discussed at a briefing on health care reform

Fourteen health insurers spend $15.5 million in the first half of 2009

NCPA happy with Baucus' proposals for community pharmacies

Canadian Prime Minister's silence is frustrating and disheartening, says Canadian Health Coalition

Regence BlueCross BlueShield on the health reform bill

Will undocumented immigrants be covered under 'health care' or 'health coverage'?

Senate Finance Committee proposes cuts for home medical equipment

New legislation protects healthcare coverage for rare disease clinical trial participants

Older Americans coping with financial crisis relatively well: Study

Coalition to Protect Patients’ Rights opposes cuts to Medicare

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