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1. A Very Open Letter from an Oncologist

   gdpawel replied to gdpawel's topic in Oncology

   A private practice oncologist told me years ago about a patient of his. The oncologist takes his vacation at the end of August. The patient was supposed to come in for chemotherapy on Wednesday, the day before the oncologist left. The patient couldn'...

2. A Very Open Letter from an Oncologist

   gdpawel posted a topic in Oncology

   A Medical Director at California Cancer Care, an oncology practice in Northern California wrote a candid letter to the Health Beat blog by Maggie Mahar. He is a member of The Century Foundation's Working Group on Medicare Reform. A very experienced a...

3. Health Provisions Slipped into Stimulus Package

   gdpawel replied to CinnScorpStudent's topic in Activism

   Now that Healthcare IT is part of the stimulus package, what are the fundamentals of Healthcare IT? Here's a primer with the top 10 questions and answers: http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/03/a-healthcare-it-primer.html

4. Cancer Patients in Nursing Homes

   gdpawel replied to gdpawel's topic in Oncology

   Nursing Homes, like deteriorating public schools, crumbling bridges and other pieces of our society's essential infrastructure have been neglected for a long time. http://www.healthbeatblog.com/2009/03/the-111th-congress-at-work-.html

5. Cancer Patients in Nursing Homes

   gdpawel replied to gdpawel's topic in Oncology

   Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Herb Kohl will reintroduce the Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement Act on March 19th. The bill, which would require disclosure of nursing home ownership and operations and give consumers better information about nur...

6. Health Provisions Slipped into Stimulus Package

   gdpawel replied to CinnScorpStudent's topic in Activism

   $21 billion to provide a 60% subsidy of health care insurance premiums for the unemployed under the COBRA program; $87 billion to help states with Medicaid; $19 billion to modernize health information technology systems; $10 billion for health resear...

7. Health Provisions Slipped into Stimulus Package

   gdpawel replied to CinnScorpStudent's topic in Activism

   The $1.1 billion earmarked for comparative effectiveness research remained in the bill that President Obama will sign. The House conferees also insisted on keeping the phrase "comparative effectiveness" throughout the authorizing language, removing t...

8. Health Provisions Slipped into Stimulus Package

   gdpawel replied to CinnScorpStudent's topic in Activism

   Conservatives have been misinforming the public about the health IT provisions of the stimulus package by falsely claiming that it would lead to the government telling the doctors what they can and cannot treat, and on whom they can and cannot treat....

9. Cancer Patients in Nursing Homes

   gdpawel replied to gdpawel's topic in Oncology

   The for-profits are taking over hospices the same way they have taken over nursing homes. The Kaiser Network noted that hospice care was designed to be delivered mainly by not-for-profit groups with affiliations to religious and community groups, but...

10. Cancer Patients in Nursing Homes

    gdpawel replied to gdpawel's topic in Oncology

    The CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) has issued quality ratings for 15,800 nursing homes throughout the USA that participate in Medicare or Medicaid. Each nursing home is assigned a star rating, from one to five - with five being th...

11. Nursing Home Compare

    gdpawel replied to debRN0417's topic in Geriatric

    State Surveys are independent evaluations of nursing facility performance. Annual surveys are conducted by state survey agencies, usually the state's department of health, using protocols, procedures, and forms developed by the Centers for Medicare &...

12. Cancer Patients in Nursing Homes

    gdpawel replied to gdpawel's topic in Oncology

    Nursing home residents (including any cancer patients) are already supposed to be receiving 24/7 care. The hospice service is an additional $130 a day the home receives. Because Medicare does not collect detailed data about the medical treatments a h...

13. Cancer Patients in Nursing Homes

    gdpawel replied to gdpawel's topic in Oncology

    Improve transparency and accountability in the ownership and operations of nursing homes Corporations would be required to disclose their owners, operators, financers, and other related parties. Facilities that were part of chains would be required ...

14. Cancer Patients in Nursing Homes

    gdpawel posted a topic in Oncology

    Elderly nursing home residents receive relatively few cancer care services, according to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Few studies have examined cancer treatment and care among elderly patients residing in nursing...

15. Addressing the Nursing Shortage

    gdpawel replied to gdpawel's topic in Activism

    Benign Neglect and the Nursing Shortage http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2007/08/why-do-we-have-.html The nursing shortage, with UPDATE from The Industry Veteran http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2004/07/quali...