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All Americans Encouraged to Learn about Advance Care Planning on National Healthcare Decisions Day on April 16

2013-04-16 23:04:11

April 16 is Healthcare Decisions Day, and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization stresses the importance of people talking frankly about the care they would or would not want if ever faced with a serious medical condition or life-limiting illness. Alexandria, VA (PRWEB) April 16, 2013 NHPCO along with other national, state, and community organizations are raising awareness of the importance of advance healthcare decision-making. This includes completing an advance directive...

Banner Health named one of the top five large health systems in the U.S.

2013-04-15 16:24:54

Recognized for superior clinical outcomes, quality, patient care and efficiency PHOENIX, April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Banner Health is one of the top performing health systems in the U.S. based on quality outcomes, patient care and efficiency, according to Truven Health Analytics, a leading health care analysis firm. Truven, formerly the health care business of Thomson Reuters, found that Banner Health has higher survival rates, few complications and system-wide clinical...

To Stop Medical Mistakes, TOPGUN Fighter Pilot Shares Hidden Technology Secrets With Operating Room Staff At National Medical Convention

2013-04-14 23:00:14

Captain Stephen Harden, Chairman and CEO of LifeWings Partners LLC, former TOPGUN fighter pilot and airline captain, and featured speaker at the Surgical Information Systems National Conference, will share how aviation uses technology to avoid fatal mistakes. (PRWEB) April 14, 2013 Preventable medical errors account for more deaths each year than breast cancer, automobile accidents, or drownings.Estimates are that 100,000 patients in the U.S. die each year from medical mistakes. The...

How to Create a Culture of Safety in Healthcare Along With LifeWings

2013-04-12 23:01:03

Captain Steve Montague, Vice President of LifeWings Partners LLC, will be a featured speaker at the 2013 Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality Summit. Captain Montague's presentation will focus on the importance of organizational culture in providing safe, quality patient care to decrease medical errors in our healthcare system across the nation. Collierville, TN (PRWEB) April 12, 2013 Captain Steve Montague, Vice President of LifeWings Partners LLC, will be a featured speaker...

How Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Implemented Washington's Death With Dignity Act

2013-04-11 13:03:56

Study details SCCA's plan to honor both patients' wishes and voters' mandate By the end of 2011, most of the 255 Washington residents who received a prescription for lethal medication to end their lives under the state's Death with Dignity Act had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Of those, 40 were patients at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, part of the Pacific Northwest's only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. Because several states are considering...

BioElectronics Has Expanded Distribution of ActiPatch and Allay Pain Products to Peru

2013-04-11 08:29:15

FREDERICK, Md., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BioElectronics Corporation (OTC Pink: BIEL), the maker of unique, safe, inexpensive over-the-counter pulsed shortwave therapy, announced today that it has established distribution in Peru of its ActiPatch Therapy, treatment of back, knee, elbow and other pain and musculoskeletal issues, and its Allay menstrual cycle pain therapy. Sistemas Analiticos (www.sistemasanaliticos.com) has more than 26 years of successfully distributing new...

Progressive Medical Launches Comprehensive Urine Drug Monitoring Network

2013-04-09 16:24:33

WESTERVILLE, Ohio, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reinforcing its belief that urine drug monitoring (UDM) is an important component of an overall medication compliance and opioid management program, Progressive Medical announces a comprehensive UDM network that includes a select group of the nation's top clinical diagnostic companies. As a pharmacy benefit manager for the workers' compensation industry, Progressive Medical has employed UDM in its pain management program for a number...

BioElectronics Adds Venezuela to its RecoveryRx(TM) Distribution Network

2013-04-09 08:30:25

FREDERICK, Md., April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BioElectronics Corporation (OTC Pink: BIEL), the maker of unique inexpensive, patented, technological solutions for chronic and post-operative wound care, announced today that it has established a Venezuelan distributor for its ActiPatch® Pain Relief Therapy and RecoveryRx(TM) Postoperative and Wound Care Recovery medical devices that provide labor free, 24-hour therapy to reduce pain, inflammation, and to accelerate healing....

Lourdes Health System Launches New Palliative Medicine Program

2013-04-08 23:01:46

Names Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice as preferred provider for pain and symptom relief services at any stage of illness Camden, NJ (PRWEB) April 08, 2013 Lourdes Health System has launched a Palliative Medicine consultation service effective April 1. Lourdes named Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice’s Palliative Medical Partners specialty practice as its Preferred Provider for this burgeoning field of medicine, announced Alexander J. Hatala, President and CEO of Lourdes Health...

Mass. Workers Rights Board Holds April 9 Hearing on the Patient Safety Crisis at Quincy Medical Center

2013-04-08 12:27:54

Frontline Nurses Will Present Testimony Regarding Unsafe Staffing Conditions that are Jeopardizing Patient Safety As Strike Vote Looms on April 11 MEDIA ADVISORY QUINCY, Mass., April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Tuesday, April 9, a board of community, faith, and health care leaders will gather to investigate alleged safety concerns from hospital staff and patients at the Quincy Medical Center. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20060525/NETH016LOGO ) Since 2012,...