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Heritage Woods of Watseka, a BMA Management affordable assisted living community in Iroquois County, Illinois, is hosting an informational program on Long-Term Care Insurance on May 16. The community serves seniors of all incomes, including those on Medicaid. Bradley, Illinois (PRWEB) May 12, 2013 Heritage Woods of Watseka, a BMA affordable assisted living community, is hosting an informational program on Long-Term care Insurance at 2 p.m. on Thursday, May 16. The community, which is...

The Student Doctor Network (SDN), a non-profit educational website, finds that educational debt significantly impacts doctors in training, including specialty choice. Southern Pines, NC (PRWEB) May 13, 2013 The Student Doctor Network, a non-profit educational website, today announced the results of its second annual user survey, which covers the impacts of student debt and the future of healthcare. Educational debt, and how it impacts the lives and decisions of future healthcare...

Program provides scholarship awards to schools nominated by GENEX employees. WAYNE, PA (PRWEB) May 13, 2013 GENEX Services, Inc. (“GENEX”), the leading provider of case management services to the workers’ compensation, disability, and auto markets has announced the recipients of its second annual Case Manager Scholarship Award Program. The program will provide $100,000 in scholarship awards to schools nominated by GENEX employees that graduated from those institutions. The...

Home Care Personal Services to implement electronic visit verification technologies to support multiple Illinois locations. Port Washington, NY (PRWEB) May 13, 2013 Sandata Technologies, LLC, an industry leader in technology solutions to the Home Care market, and Home Care Personal Services, a locally recognized provider of outstanding in-home services to clients across northern Illinois, announced the signing of a Letter of Intent for Sandata to provide its Electronic Visit...

Heritage Woods of Chicago, a BMA Management affordable assisted living community, is offering a Zumba class on the third Friday of the month, starting May 17. Located on Chicago's west side, the community serves low-income older adults, including those on Medicaid. Bradley, IL (PRWEB) May 13, 2013 Heritage Woods of Chicago, a BMA affordable assisted living community on Chicago's west side, is offering a Zumba class at 3 p.m. on the third Friday of the month, starting May 17. The...

Expert judges awarded top three designs for statewide website where New Yorkers will soon be able to access their healthcare records NEW YORK, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) announced today the winners of its Design Challenge for the Patient Portal for New Yorkers. Mana Health placed first, iHealthNY second, and MyHealthProfile third and will be awarded $15,000, $7,500, and $2,500 respectively. View their products here. (Logo:...

Government's Payment Data Release Raises More Questions Than Answers PHOENIX, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The hospital billing data recently released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shows wide variation in actual Medicare payments--not just in hospital charges--according to data analysis by Abhay Padgaonkar, a management and healthcare consultant. The analysis also revealed the most extreme charge markups among different states and hospitals along...

--Recipients of $1.7 Million Award from Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute-- MIAMI, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has approved a research award to the National Parkinson Foundation (NPF) and Johns Hopkins University to deliver telemedicine care to people with Parkinson's disease in their homes. E. Ray Dorsey, MD, Director, Johns Hopkins Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center is the lead...

Combined Business will Operate Under the Packaging Coordinators Brand Creating the Largest Global Pharmaceutical Contract Packager SEATTLE and PHILADELPHIA, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Frazier Healthcare and Packaging Coordinators, Inc. today announced that they have completed the acquisition of pharmaceutical packager AndersonBrecon from its parent company AmerisourceBergen Corporation. AndersonBrecon will now merge with and operate as Packaging Coordinators, Inc. ("PCI"). "We...

LONDON, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Jon Rouse, the Director General of Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships has told ITN Productions that the Care and Support Bill could transform the lives of thousands of elderly and disabled people in the UK. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121011/567198-a ) (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130513/613426 ) He said the draft bill has teeth and flexibility, setting out the rights...