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Starling's Star
ANA Honors NMMC RN with Prestigious Award
TUPELO—Mantachie resident and registered nurse Jan Starling cannot recall a time, even in early childhood, when she didn't think about becoming a nurse.
LYNNE JETER |
Healthcare Reform Affects Medicare Patients and the Under 65 Set Differently
How to Answer Questions from Your Patients
If you’re a physician, chances are you have already fielded a bevy of questions from patients about healthcare reform. Rest assured, the questions will keep coming. Experts say that doctors need to be up to speed, and fast, about how reform will affect their patients’ healthcare and their insurance options in the future.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Avoiding Danger in the Workplace
Bureau of Labor Statistics Shows Higher Incidents of Violence in Healthcare Settings
Every year, thousands of workers in the healthcare and social services industries are confronted with threats of violence and actual assaults.
LYNNE JETER |
Sometimes I Wish Something Could Just Stay the Same
Version 5010 Transition for Electronic Claims Submission
With almost 100 percent of Medicare Part A claim transactions being submitted electronically (and just over 96 percent of the Part B claims) using the Version 4010/4010A1 of healthcare standards, payers and providers must implement, test and transition to the 5010 Version transaction to be compliant with HIPAA no later than January 1, 2012.
BETTY HATTEN |
Lending a Neighborly Hand
Mississippi Medicaid Funds Boost The MED
Mississippi will soon give the Regional Medical Center at Memphis (The MED) a financial bump, thanks to newly-approved Medicaid supplemental payments to the regional safety-net hospital that treats more than 3,000 Mississippians annually.
JULIO GONZALEZ, MD, with LYNNE JETER |
Strength with Grace
Wesley Honors Strong Women in the Pine Belt
HATTIESBURG—A college student self-tasked with waging war on classroom bullying, a broker who shares her talents and time with those less fortunate, and a computer science instructor who has encouraged thousands of students were among the women honored on May 11 at the Celebration of Strong Women Awards Luncheon in Hattiesburg.
LYNNE JETER |
How to Develop a High-Performance Team
On July 4, 1988, the warship USS Vincennes mistook an Iranian civilian jetliner for an F14 fighter plane and fired upon it, killing all 290 people on board. The military reviewed the tragic incident and determined the problem in part was a lack of coordination among command and control teams and a communication breakdown across teams.
MARTIN WILLOUGHBY |
The Guardian
John Sutton Trains Healthcare Providers on Safety, Security, Self-Defense
NEW ORLEANS—After honing skills in martial arts and boxing during the early 1990s, John Sutton was approached by several nurses working in home care, asking him to teach them self-defense techniques and to accompany them to troublesome houses.
LYNNE JETER |
Clinical eHarmony
Compatibility of New Hire to Practice Requires Skill, Patience, Tenacity
What characteristics are being sought in the next person to be hired in the clinic? Will they be matched with the clinic in 29 areas of compatibility? No?
HAROLD INGRAM |
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Stark Reality
Multi-Specialty Practices Anxiously Await MedPac Recommendations for Imaging
Over the past few years, there has been a gradual chipping away of allowed reimbursements for imaging. Tightening Stark regulations have largely been driven by concern over the rising costs of advanced diagnostic imaging and soaring utilization rates.
CINDY SANDERS |
There’s an App for That!
Medical Applications for Mobile Technology are Burgeoning
With mobile technologies advancing, so too are medical uses of those technologies – and the ride has just begun, predicts one expert.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
PHYSICIAN SPOTLIGHT: Son Lam, MD
OXFORD—The calling to take care of people was a natural fit for Son Lam, MD. From the example his father set in taking charge of his orphaned nieces and nephews in Vietnam, to the life-changing care his family received from a church in Corinth, the models were near and vivid.
LUCY SCHULTZE |
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