Cruise Giveaway Contest for Family Caregivers Offers Opportunity for Stress-Free Getaway
An estimated 39 million Americans provide hours of unpaid care to someone aged 65 or older* each day. Often, there is no respite from this labor of love.
Spinal Cord Injury Patients Conquer Fear One Step at a Time at Seton Recovery Center
For spinal cord injury patients ‘fear’ is a part of everyday life, especially the fear that they may never have the life they once enjoyed. As a quadripertic Daniel Curtis faces that fear daily from his wheelchair, but trust in a recently installed rehabilitation system at the Seton Brain & Spine Recovery Center has displaced the fear and drives him on a mission to walk once again.
Top 10 Children’s Hospitals in the United States includes Houston’s Texas Children’s
As you consider treatment facilities for your child, keep the nation’s 10 best children’s hospitals in mind.
Quick Response Code-Enabled Patient Safety Education Program Launched
Medical errors and mistakes in delivery of care harm or kill patients while costing hospitals billions each year. “Learn How to Be Safe While Receiving Medical Care” is new safety education poster program delivering critical education information directly into the hands of patients and their families and requires no staff time or training.
New Book Offers Checklists To Help Hospital Patients
As anyone who has been a patient or a visitor at a hospital knows, they’re often confusing, chaotic places. By the time you learn the routines and the rules, with any luck you’re recovered and on your way out the door.
Ambulatory Detox Approved at Right Step Woodlands by BCBS Texas
With the news surrounding the death of Whitney Houston, the question arises “Why didn’t she just quit?” Quitting the use of drugs and alcohol is not always medically safe.
Hospitals Demand Payment Upfront From ER Patients With Routine Problems
Next time you go to an emergency room, be prepared for this: If your problem isn’t urgent, you may have to pay upfront.
Experts Question Medicare’s Effort To Rate Hospitals’ Patient Safety Records
Medicare’s first public effort to identify hospitals with patient safety problems has pinpointed many prestigious teaching institutions around the nation, raising concerns about quality at these places but also bolstering objections that the government’s measurements are skewed.
Facing challenges, 14 Texas Teenage Amputees Conquer Winter Park’s Slippery Slopes
Fourteen Texas teenagers got the chance to be themselves and spend time with others on the slopes snowboarding and skiing at Winter Park’s National Sports Center for the Disabled. The group was amputee patients from the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas.
Hospitals Mine Their Patients’ Records In Search Of Customers
When the oversized postcard arrived last August from Provena St. Joseph Medical Center promoting a lung cancer screening for current or former smokers over 55, Steven Boyd wondered how the hospital had found him.
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