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Hospitals Take on Greater Conservation Role
"Green" Practices Boosted by Financial Hardships and Community Pressure
Hospitals dispose a greater and more complicated variety of waste than a nuclear power plant. And they consume more energy than most factories.
Now more than ever, for several compounding reasons, hospitals are taking on so-called "green" conservation initiatives geared at saving money and doing what's best for the environment.
DAVID ROSENFELD
Protect the Goose and the Golden Egg-Yes You Can!
With the primary insurance focus on healthcare and the escalating cost of health insurance, Voluntary Disability Income and Group Disability Income benefits have taken a back seat with the small employer.
TANYA L. BURNS
The Growing Problem of Young Adolescent ACL Tears
Each year, approximately 150,000 people tear their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). According to estimates, as well as our experience at The Pediatric Sports Medicine Program at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, the rate of this injury in skeletally immature athletes is dramatically rising faster than skeletally mature people.
JAY C. ALBRIGHT, MD
LAKE SUMTER MEDICAL SOCIETY
During the FMA Annual Meeting in August, I was captivated by Dr. Steven West's speech, the newly appointed FMA president. He was reflecting on healthcare reform and future legislation. He stated that, "healthcare is not provided by a health system, a hospital, an insurance company or even a government. In battle, physicians lead the team that takes care of wounded soldiers. In natural disasters, medical teams led by skilled surgeons and emergency physicians are dispatched into disaster zones. Health insurance executives and hospital administrators are not sent. Why? They would get in the way..."
SEMINOLE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Takes New Steps to Accelerate Adoption of Electronic Prescribing
New Report Shows CMS Pilot Program Saving Nearly $700 Million in Improper Medicare Payments
SCMS Membership Benefit
Carrie Gilbert
ORANGE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY
Physicians dedicated to serving their patients and community and protecting the integrity of the practice of medicine.
The Orange County Medical Society was well represented at the Florida Medical Association's annual meeting held here in Orlando July 31 – Aug. 3. Eighteen delegates attended the meeting under the leadership of Connie D. Micklavzina, MD, delegation chair. The OCMS delegation joined forces with the Seminole County Medical Society to form the Central Florida Medical Societies Caucus. As a united voice, the caucus brought together 22 physicians to represent the interests of physicians in Central Florida.
Melanie Boscan
Orlando Medical News Introduces "Most Outrageous Claims" Feature
Clearly, medicine is business. Big business! Recently, the Florida Medical Association lobbying efforts and federal and state legislation have spoken clearly on this issue through the Managed Care Bill (SB1012), proposed Medicare reimbursement cuts, silent PPOs and assignment of benefits.
JOHN KELLY
Patient Hones Bowling Skills While Hospitalized
After suffering a stroke in July 2008, 82-year-old Armand (Moe) Gaudette of Pinellas Park, was unable to participate in his biweekly bowling league games. However, thanks to therapists at St. Petersburg’s Bayfront Medical Center and Ninetendo’s Wii game console, Gaudette was able to practice and hone his bowling skills while hospitalized.
WENDY R. LEVINE GROSS
On a Hot Streak
Team Physicians Use Cutting-Edge Technology, Common Sense to Battle Heat-Related Illness
Three years after he accepted a grant from the National Football League to develop a game plan for combating heat-related illness in athletes, Eric Coris is finding that his best offense is a strong defense.
J.L. WEBB
| Practice Management Focus |
"Get Your Hands in the Air, Doc!"
New York's tony Upper East Side was in shock last February after Kathryn Faughey, a 56-year-old psychiatrist, was slashed to death with a meat cleaver while at work in her office. Charged with the crime is a former patient of Faughey's partner in the practice, Kent Shinbach, 70, who was seriously injured trying to save Faughey.
Simple Internet searches reveal a growing number of physician assaults across the country: a Chicago dermatologist stabbed to death by a patient whose acne treatment caused impotence, and a pain-management doctor in Port St. Lucie, Fla., who was beaten by a patient wielding a walking cane.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD
Dr. James Matas
James Matas, MD, is working to give plastic surgery a face-lift. He is an experienced cosmetic surgeon, but his patients aren't the only ones he's transforming. Matas is also committed to upholding high ethical standards throughout the field of plastic surgery.
REBEKAH KELLER
You Get What You Pay For!
You and your staff work hard at meeting all the compliance requirements for HIPPA. It would be easy to forget that as a business you also are required to be FACTA compliant as well. FACTA stands for Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act. It is generally known as the law which allows Americans access to their credit report once per year. So what could this law possibly have to do with you?
Marylee Jacobs
AxiaLIF (Axial Lumbar Interbody Fusion) - a new, revolutionary less invasive approach to traditional spinal fusion surgery.
There are many surgical techniques available to treat spinal conditions such as degenerative disc disease, scoliosis, spondylolisthesis, or spinal fracture. One of the more common surgical treatments offered to patients is lumbar spinal fusion. A new minimally invasive approach to spinal fusion called AxiaLIF enables surgeons to perform lumbar fusion surgery without the major dissections of the surrounding spinal soft tissue.
Dr. Stephen Goll
Best Practice: Green Machine
Are You Throwing Away Dollars?
After nearly 20 years serving as a consultant to the healthcare industry, I have a diagnosis for one thing that commonly ails the financial well-being of hospitals. In a word, it’s garbage. Too much unsorted garbage, to be precise. Across the country, medical waste collection and disposal have become increasingly costly and complex responsibilities, creating more strain on an already challenged business of providing affordable hospital goods and services.
Tony Schifano, President, Antos Environmental
Best Practice: Therapy for Venous Insufficiency
Evidence-Based Standards of Care
The mainstay in treatment of venous insuffiency be it varicose veins, spider veins or advanced skin changes- ulcers, is elastic compression. The elastic compression should be graduated- greater pressure at the ankle, than the upper leg. Adequate compression does not include support hose or TED stockings.
Dr. Samuel P. Martin
Finding the Right Outpatient Care
Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, a part of Orlando Health, offers a broad range of outpatient services to Central Florida residents and visitors. With leadingedge facilities and a dedicated team of physicians and nurses, these services deliver world-class healthcare to numerous area locations.
Dr. P. Phillips
Doctors Feeling the Pain from All Sides
Florida-based Doctor, Dr. B. Gordon, MD, needed quick cash - and lots of it. Maxed-out credit, rising overhead and expenses threatened to shut down his practice for good…
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Health Tip: Controlling Asthma
Title: Health Tip: Controlling Asthma
Category: Health News
Created: 9/5/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/5/2008 Posted Friday, September 5, 2008 2:00 am CDT
| | Health Tip: Avoid Yeast Infections
Title: Health Tip: Avoid Yeast Infections
Category: Health News
Created: 9/5/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/5/2008 Posted Friday, September 5, 2008 2:00 am CDT
| | Scientists Discover How Osteoarthritis Destroys Cartilage
Title: Scientists Discover How Osteoarthritis Destroys Cartilage
Category: Health News
Created: 9/5/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/5/2008 Posted Friday, September 5, 2008 2:00 am CDT
| | Health Highlights: Sept. 4, 2008
Title: Health Highlights: Sept. 4, 2008
Category: Health News
Created: 9/5/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/5/2008 Posted Friday, September 5, 2008 2:00 am CDT
| | Scientists Spot New Twist in HIV Infection
Title: Scientists Spot New Twist in HIV Infection
Category: Health News
Created: 9/5/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/5/2008 Posted Friday, September 5, 2008 2:00 am CDT
| | Research Unveils Earliest Cell Changes in Down Syndrome
Title: Research Unveils Earliest Cell Changes in Down Syndrome
Category: Health News
Created: 9/5/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/5/2008 Posted Friday, September 5, 2008 2:00 am CDT
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| | The darker side of labor unions - Orlando Sentinel
The darker side of labor unionsOrlando Sentinel, FL - 12 hours ago31 Orlando Sentinel, Bruce Nissen, an employee of a union think tank funded by public tax dollars at Florida International University, wrote an eloquent ... |
Posted Sunday, September 7, 2008 3:14 am CDT
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