Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today approximately $101 million in Affordable Care Act funding to 164 new health center sites.
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today approximately $101 million in Affordable Care Act funding to 164 new health center sites.
Vital signs are no longer in the optimal zone. Cholesterol numbers are out of whack. Stepping on the bathroom scales reveals a continuing trend in the wrong direction. These are the kinds of numerical indicators that can cause a person to panic, at least in terms of their physical health. Recently, several publications put out numbers that, when taken together, help to quantify the overall health of the anesthesia specialty. The results are less than desirable.
See PostFew documents remain the same. Revisions, recensions and emendations are commonplace—even when it comes to ancient and revered texts. We have no original manuscripts of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. All we have are copies, but there are three “textual families” of these extant copies, meaning there are variants in some of the wording. It’s up to textual critics to determine which family of copies best represents the original rendering per passage, and this sometimes leads to slight updates in our modern versions of these classic works. Even the vaunted U.S. Constitution has undergone updating over the years through the amendment process.
See PostToday’s anesthesia practices are all struggling with three main management challenges. First, they must generate consistent and sufficient cashflow to manage the practice budget. Second, the primary budgetary challenge is to recruit and retain a sufficient staff of qualified providers to perform the services required by the facility. Third, it is not enough to manage the AR and find and retain qualified providers; one must establish and maintain a symbiotic relationship with the facilities it services. While many practices can achieve some of these requirements, many struggle attaining all three. The only practices that will survive long term are those that maintain an effective strategy to balance the three.
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