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Diabetics on Medicare Face Critical Deadline, Need Information

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The Western PA Healthcare News Team

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

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The Western PA Healthcare News Team

It’s 8 a.m. The nurses are moving efficiently around the sunny unit, preparing feeding tubes, suctioning trachs, taking vitals and ...

Five Strategies for Hospitals to Help Prepare for Financial Challenges Ahead

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Daniel Casciato

By Daniel Casciato Jan Jennings’ frustration with the financial challenges hospitals are facing was evident within a few seconds of ...

Legal

Can Employers Make Changes to Retiree Health Care Benefits?

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The Western PA Healthcare News Team

By Richard Kennedy Lifelong health care benefits were once commonly offered to retiring employees by their employers.  But dramatically increasing ...

Who Reads the Newspaper?

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The Western PA Healthcare News Team

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

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The Western PA Healthcare News Team

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

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The Western PA Healthcare News Team

Following a national search, Carlow University’s Board of Trustees today appointed Suzanne K. Mellon, Ph.D., as the institution’s tenth president. ...