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LINCOLN—Nebraska's unemployment rate improved to 4.9 percent in May even though more people are looking for jobs now than there were a year ago, according to estimates
recently released.
The state unemployment rate was 5 percent in March and April.
The rate is two-tenths of a percentage point higher than in May 2009.
Read more.
— AP, June 18, 2010
BETHESDA, Md.—A premier brain injury and traumatic stress treatment center
opened Thursday amid news that the head of the military’s oft-criticized mental
health efforts had abruptly stepped down. Brigadier General Loree Sutton resigned earlier this week as the director of the Defense Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury. Sutton had often taken heat over charges that the military wasn’t doing enough to diagnosis and treat traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Read more.
— Stars and Stripes, June 24, 2010
BEATRICE—Beatrice Community Hospital finalized financing for a new $45 million facility today, completing a transaction that capitalizes on American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
(ARRA) changes and will bring improved health care delivery to the small
Nebraska town. Local Nebraska banks and individuals have purchased nearly 40
percent of the tax-exempt bonds issued, and the community’s affinity for the
project helped to keep the interest rate on the bonds low. The rate on the debt
is fixed for 25 years, and $30 million of the bonds are rated investment-grade
by Fitch Ratings. Read more.
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Lancaster Pollard press release, June 24, 2010
OMAHA—Alegent Health was recently named one of the top health systems in the United States by Thomson Reuters.
President and CEO of Alegent Health, Richard A. Hachten II, FACHE, is pleased that the work Alegent Health has done to improve quality, safety and patient outcomes is being acknowledged. “This recognition is about the very things that we consider mission critical,” said Hachten.
The second annual study identified the top 51 best-performing health systems, based on clinical performance across their entire system. Researchers from the Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals® program analyzed the quality and efficiency of 255 health systems, and found statistically significant differences between top and bottom performers in several key areas.
Read more.
— Alegent Health press release, June 22, 2010
ST. PAUL—Howard County Medical Center (HCMC) is pleased to announce that Arlan
Johnson has accepted the position of Chief Executive Officer. Johnson has been
with HCMC since October of 2007 in the role of Clinic Director. Prior to joining
the medical community, Johnson was the Branch Manager at Bank of the West in Grand
Island for three years and Branch Manager at two different banks in the Chicago
area for nearly 13 years.
Read more.
—
The Ord Quiz, June 23, 2010
WASHINGTON—The House last night approved legislation to delay for six months a 21
percent Medicare pay cut for physicians by providing a 2.2 percent increase in the Medicare physician fee schedule through November. Approved by a 417 to 1 vote,
H.R. 3962 will reduce hospital payments by about $4 billion by prohibiting hospitals from retrospectively billing to unbundle payments for outpatient therapeutic services provided prior to date of enactment of the legislation if they were performed within 72 hours of a hospital admission and were unrelated to that admission. The bill does not extend a temporary increase in Medicaid's Federal Medical Assistance Percentage, nor does it extend COBRA subsidies to laid-off workers, as proposed in earlier versions of "jobs" legislation. President Obama this morning signed the bill, which cleared the Senate last week, into law.
— AHA News Now, June 25, 2010
WASHINGTON—Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) suggested Thursday that Democrats might attempt to move "card-check" legislation this year, perhaps during a lame-duck session.
Harkin, the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, strongly disputed that the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA, or "card-check") was dead in the Senate.
Read more.
— The Hill, June 24, 2010
Legal Issues in Surgery - Risk & Patient Specific (CL)
June 29, 2010 – Webinar
Mandatory Nurse-to-Patient Minimum Staffing Ratios: What Health Care Providers Should Expect
June 29, 2010 – Webinar
Contracted Services: Ensuring Compliance with The Joint Commission 2010 Standard (CL)
July 7, 2010 – Webinar
York General Health Care Services Auxiliary Charity Golf Tournament
July 30, 2010 – York
Charity Golf Tournament
to benefit
Jefferson Community Health Center
August 6, 2010 – Fairbury
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