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This has been on going for a year and made all the headlines and now its back once more. The hacker supposedly showed what they had with an example and now the FBI with their investigation confirms they have more.
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Who is living in the nursing home near your Grandmom? Kind and gracious elderly people who may need assistance? Yes, probably. Patients with aggressive tendancies because of dementia, head injury or prior aggression issues? Yes, likely.
What about convicted felons and sex offenders? Do they live on Grandma’s hall?
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Friends - the following article was not written by Dan or myself. The writer, Adrienne Carlson, regularly writes on the topic of pharmacy technician certification. These are her opinions and she welcomes your comments and questions at her email address: adrienne.carlson83@yahoo.com
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This has me curious with all the medical devices that now connect and send data to a cell phone, how will we be able to send data if they are determined to cause cancer? Is this a dumb question? Heres one that does ultra sounds:
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According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), almost 4 percent (580) of the 16,000 nursing homes in the United States could be considered “the most poorly performing” under CMS’s Special Focus Facility program. States currently identify some 755 nursing homes (the 15 worst in each state) as “candidates” for the program. Under the GAO’s methodology, the most poorly performing homes are distributed unevenly across states, with 8 states having no homes that actually qualify and 10 others having from 21 to 52.
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Four years ago we posted (here, here and here) about the controversial US Supreme Court decision in the Kelo case. Most discussion of the case at the time focused on individual property rights vs the power of the government to promote economic development, but the case had an important health care angle.
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I received an email today from the foundation about their upcoming event and thought this was worth passing along for others to view as well. This 
is an annual event that also helps fund and support nursing education at the hospital. You cant help but notice the picture of the robot on the brochure, right? If you read this blog, I have written frequently about the Robo-doc as they are used in many facilities today, to include UCLA, and recently even helped get a hospital in Fountain Valley, accredited as a stroke center.
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This week Cook Medical participated in the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Convention in San Francisco where they announced a new 
product line to combat and prevent pulmonary embolisms. PEs are the #1 cause of in-hospital deaths, affecting 600,000 Americans every year, and resulting in 200,000 deaths (thats more than breast cancer, AIDS and car accidents combined).
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Choosing a nursing home for a loved one can be a very difficult and emotional decision. We all want to be sure that our family member is being well-cared for and their physical and emotional needs are met when we cannot be there all the time. Nursing homes are usually either for-profit or non-profit. The question remains, which of these two is the better option; does a for-profit nursing home provide better care to its residents than a not-for-profit?