The Western PA Healthcare News Team
Patient Care
Diabetics on Medicare Face Critical Deadline, Need Information
By Terry Blankenship If you have diabetes and are on Medicare, you have an important decision to make in less ...
Pediatric
Nurses Vital to Pediatric Rehabilitation Success
It’s 8 a.m. The nurses are moving efficiently around the sunny unit, preparing feeding tubes, suctioning trachs, taking vitals and ...
Legal
Can Employers Make Changes to Retiree Health Care Benefits?
By Richard Kennedy Lifelong health care benefits were once commonly offered to retiring employees by their employers. But dramatically increasing ...
Who Reads the Newspaper?
We recently came across a great blog post from Jennifer Sheran at Sheran Memories regarding the state of printed reading ...
Real Estate, Design & Construction
Being Lean Without Being Mean: The ‘Design Downside’ Dilemma for the Healthcare Industry
By Anthony Cavallaro As a hospital CEO contemplating adding a wing, or a facilities manager looking for a way to ...
Education People in the News
Suzanne K. Mellon, Ph.D., Appointed Carlow University’s 10th President
Following a national search, Carlow University’s Board of Trustees today appointed Suzanne K. Mellon, Ph.D., as the institution’s tenth president. ...
HIPAA Business Associates Security Requirements—What You Need To Know
By Angie Singer Keating Can your company afford to lose up to a million and a half dollars a year? ...
