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September 9 · Issue #579 · View online
Providing you with the latest health care headlines almost daily. Carefully crafted by Shawn Rossi. Questions? Email srossi@mhanet.org.
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Forrest General Hospital hires new Chief Nursing Officer
Forrest General Hospital is pleased to announce the hiring of a new Chief Nursing Officer. Phyllis Chambers-Berry, DNP, RN, NE-BC, assumed the duties of CNO effective September 1, 2019.
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Baptist Golden Triangle welcomes husband, wife internists to staff
Baptist Memorial Hospital – Golden Triangle welcomes two new internal medicine physicians to its staff, Paul Scurti, DO and his wife Connie Scurti, DO.
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William G. Jackson honored as Physician of the Year
William G. Jackson of Corinth, was honored as Mississippi’s Family Physician of the Year 2019 at the Mississippi Academy of Family Physicians Annual Meeting.
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Lawmakers question who should pay for hospital disaster preparedness
Hospital preparedness for natural disasters loomed large in a House committee hearing on climate change. But lawmakers didn’t want to talk about regulations.
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IHI sponsoring free program to help improve maternal care
IHI is sponsoring the Better Maternal Outcomes Rapid Improvement Network — a free, six-month program focused on maternal outcomes and respectful care. The network will assist participants in implementing promising practices and improve care delivery for all women and newborns. Participating organizations will learn how to spread best practices and protocols through a variety of shared learning formats. The next session begins Oct. 8.
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Free AHA Webinar: Patients with Opioid Use Disorder in the Outpatient and Emergency Settings
To improve the health of patients struggling with addiction, learn how one program engages patients at multiple points of care through an in-house addiction team and clinic – all working in coordination with emergency department staff.
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CMS delays until April 2020 activating certain OPPS claims edits
Tthe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has delayed further — until April 2020 — system edits that would require hospitals and health systems with multiple locations to include on outpatient prospective payment system claims for services provided in off-campus provider-based departments the exact same provider address entered in the Medicare Provider, Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System for that location. The edits were originally scheduled to take effect in July. CMS had delayed the effective date until Oct. 1 before announcing this week that the effective date is now April 2020.
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Seema Verma's American Dream: Empower Consumers, Unleash Competition
The CMS administrator views her work as public service, aims to put patients in the center of the healthcare decision-making process, and hopes to curb healthcare costs.
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CMS Proposes Big Payment Changes That Could Affect ACOs
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