Healthcare Review

Philadelphia — Roughly 99.9 percent of your genetic makeup is identical to every other human being, which makes the remaining tenth of a percent all the more interesting. As a result, scientists around the world are feverishly hunting through this tiny fraction of biomolecular material to find out what separates one individual from the next, [...]

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New York — The National League for Nursing (NLN) has announced a new policy for nursing professional assessment, offering its Practice Assessment Series (PAS) nurse-testing program only to point-of-health-care delivery institutions (e.g., hospital systems and nursing facilities).
The tests — which are the profession’’s leading standard for assessing nursing proficiency — will no longer be available [...]

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Miami — The Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation and the Alzheimer

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule clarifying hospital obligations to patients who request treatment for emergency medical conditions under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA).
The revisions provide clear, common sense rules for responding to people who come to a hospital for treatment of an emergency [...]

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