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| Current Mississippi Medical News |
Boosting Mississippi’s Nurse Workforce
Hospitals, Nursing Schools Collaborate on Innovative Training Program for Geriatric Care
When nursing students gathered for orientation at educational facilities statewide earlier in the spring, they were introduced to an innovative program that changes the way the art and skill of nursing is being taught.
LYNNE JETER |
Healthcare Reform Boosts Primary Care
Reimbursement Incentives Offered to Ease the Strain
Well, it’s done, and depending on your perspective, the historic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that sets about reforming America’s health system could be a boon or it could be a bust. For most stakeholders, reality is somewhere in the middle.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Healthcare Reform’s Effects on the Physician Community
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act, both passed in March 2010 among much fanfare, are collectively known as Healthcare Reform. While healthcare reform will affect physicians as employers, insured, and taxpayers, these reforms will also impact the operations of physician offices in a variety of ways.
TONY PALAZZO, CPA, MHA |
Compounding Success
Pharmacists Robert Donnell and Jimmy Rodgers Find Niche with Vital Care “Compounding”
HATTIESBURG—When Robert Donnell opened a compounding-only pharmacy in South Mississippi in the late 1990s, many friends and physicians cautioned him not to expect a favorable outcome.
LYNNE JETER |
Two Laboratory Reimbursement Extensions as Addressed by CMS
Reasonable Cost Payment for Rural Hospitals and Pathology Technical Component Payment has been in limbo, but recently the CMS addressed in two Medicare Learning Network Matters Articles. (See MLN Matters articles SE0931 and MM6873.)
BETTY HATTEN |
| Best Business Practices Focus |
Playing Well With Others
Building Strong Relationships in an Evolving Environment
In theory, hospital administrators, physicians and nurses are all on the same team with the same ultimate goal — delivering the highest quality of patient care possible. In practice, those relationships are easily strained as fiscal realities, misaligned objectives and strong personalities are factored into the equation.
CINDY SANDERS |
Fostering an Epidemic of Skin Cancer
Dermatologists Take Aim at Indoor Tanning
On an average day in America, more than 1 million people visit an indoor tanning salon. That’s why dermatologists nationwide have declared war on the practice, which research overwhelmingly has shown causes cancer.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
PHYSICIAN SPOTLIGHT: Michael Manning, MD
If it feels like you’re in need a renewed focus on life and work, there’s nothing like four months of forced monotony to spur some inner reflection.
LUCY SCHULTZE |
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