Nursing home checklist

First Impression
* Do you like the facility’s location and outward appearance?
* Is the facility convenient for frequent visits by family and friends?
* Are you welcomed with a warm greeting from the staff?
* Does the staff address residents by their [...]

Certified nursing assistant become driver in wheel taxi

David Banks hasn’t had time to rest on his laurels, even after being honored as 2008’s top entrepreneur.
Banks’ non-emergency medical transport company, Wheelchair Taxi, continues to roll day and night getting disabled and elderly clients to and from appointments, the hospital and doctors’ offices.
“I was so honored and humbled to receive that award,” Banks, 40, [...]

Phyhealth Provides Update to Shareholders

Physicians Healthcare Management Group, Inc., a developer of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) in partnership with physicians, today released the following letter to its shareholders:
Dear Phyhealth Shareholder:
Since our last communication in June 2008, much has happened. I want to update you on the Company’s progress on two of Phyhealth’s 2008 key objectives.
First is the Company’s application [...]

Nursing Shortage in New York city

A recent study on the appropriateness of minimum nurse staff levels concluded that 98% of nursing homes in New York have nursing levels that fall in the range where quality of care was shown to suffer. This report was conducted by The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Reports linking quality of care and staffing [...]

Guide to Choosing a Nursing Home

The “Guide to Choosing a Nursing Home” is designed to help you findand compare nursing homes. It can help you and your family makeyour best choice, whether you are planning ahead, or need to make anunexpected decision. It includes information about different types oflong-term care, how to find and compare nursing homes in your area,and [...]

Census Bureau Releases Comprehensive Health Insurance Coverage Estimates by County

The U.S. Census Bureau today released the most extensive estimates it has ever published on county-level demographic characteristics of people with and without health insurance coverage.
The 2005 estimates cover all states and counties across gender, age and income as well as race and Hispanic origin (for states only).
“The Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) provide [...]

Bull Continues Repositioning and Announces the Acquisition of its Medicaid Solutions Business in the United States by Ingenix

Bull – expert in open, flexible and secure information systems, solutions and services and one of Europe’s leading players in the IT industry – announces it has signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition of its Medicaid solutions business, mainly dedicated to Public Health and Human Services management in the United States by Ingenix, a [...]

E.Lilly to pay $62 mln to settle Zyprexa case

Bull – expert in open, flexible and secure information systems, solutions and services and one of Europe’s leading players in the IT industry – announces it has signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition of its Medicaid solutions business, mainly dedicated to Public Health and Human Services management in the United States by Ingenix, a [...]

Patients’ Hospital Bills Jumped $70 Billion in Just One Year

Hospital charges – what patients are billed for their rooms, nursing care, diagnostic tests and other services – jumped from $873 billion in 2005 to $943 billion in 2006.
steep increase occurred even though hospitals admissions increased only slightly, from 39.2 million to 39.5 million. Insured patients and their health plans pay less than the full [...]

Patients’ Hospital Bills Jumped $70 Billion In Just One Year

Hospital charges what patients are billed for their rooms, nursing care, diagnostic tests and other services jumped from $873 billion in 2005 to $943 billion in 2006, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
The steep increase occurred even though hospitals admissions increased only slightly, from 39.2 million [...]