Crdentia Awarded Joint Commission Health Care Staffing Services Certification.
Crdentia Receives Industry's Gold Seal of Approval From Independent Accrediting Organization DALLAS, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crdentia Corp. (BULLETIN BOARD: CRDT) , a leading U.S. provider of healthcare staffing services, today announced that the Company has achieved the Gold Seal of Approval for health care staffing services....

Ontario's health councils closing, 14 local networks created.
TORONTO -- The management health care delivery will shift many functions of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care to 14 Local Health Integration Networks. The government will close down the province's 16 district health councils on March 3. In addition to taking over the...

IRDA may allow to shift health cover policies.
Byline: Arti Sharma MUMBAI: Consider this. You have bought a health insurance policy from a private sector insurance company three years back and you haven't filed a claim so far. Now, you want to shift the policy to a public sector company but want to continue with...

The public/private partnership behind the Cash and Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation: its origins, challenges, and unresolved issues.
For the past 30 years, a quiet, persistent revolution has gathered steam and shaped America's thinking about how to care for people with disabilities. Before the 1970s, the vast majority of physically and cognitively impaired elders and younger people with significant developmental or physical disabilities received services informally by...

Multiple sclerosis, aging and support service utilization.
There are approximately 400,000 individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) living in the United States and approximately 2,500,000 persons with MS around the world (National Multiple Sclerosis Society, 2004). These individuals are part of the population of people aging with a disability. Aging with a disability is the process of...

Dental law may expand; Senate OKs hygienist plan.
Byline: John J. Monahan BOSTON - Hoping more children, elderly in nursing homes and shut-ins will get preventive dental care, the state Senate yesterday unanimously approved legislation that would allow certain dental hygienists to work without direct supervision in certain public health settings. The bill,...

The family: an important nursing resource for holistic client care. (Clinical Update).
Introduction As nursing continues to evolve, there is increasing pressure for nurses to become more technical in their practice. As important as this aspect of care is, nurses also have a pivotal role to play in human interactions, primarily with the client, but very often with the...

Home-Centered Health Care: The Populist Transformation of the American Health Care System.
Magee, Mike. Home-Centered Health Care: The Populist Transformation of the American Health Care System. New York, N.Y.: Spencer Books, 2007; www.spencerbooks.com. This book offers a vision for today's complex and unruly health care landscape. It deciphers the intersecting megatrends of aging, consumerism, and the Internet, leading those...

CMS plans five-star rating system for nursing homes.
The federal government will soon be rating the nation's nursing homes on a five-star quality scale. Kerry Weems, acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, announced the plan during a teleconference. The new, simple rating system will give patients and their families an easy...

Nursing homes to get new rating system.
The federal government will soon be rating the nation's nursing homes on a five-star quality scale. Kerry Weems, acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, announced the plan during a teleconference. The new rating system will give patients and their families an easy way...