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FALL 2007

  • Retention: What's it worth?
  • News briefs
  • Hiring for the long term
  • Retention resources
  • Retention is like a box of chocolates
  • Turnover at the top: The importance of leadership retention
QualityTODAY - Current Edition
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SUMMER 2007

  • Walking through the Welcome to Medicare visit
  • Need an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) screening?
  • Quality is never accidental - Quality Awards
    • Home Health
    • Hospital
    • Physician Office
    • Nursing Home

SPRING 2007

  • Waging war on medical errors
  • Quality on the home front
  • 5 Million Lives: Has your hospital signed up?
  • It's time: CMS testing Pay-for-Performance
  • CMS changes hospital discharge appeal process

WINTER 2007

  • Show-Me State Nursing Homes Unite
  • Safer Surgery: CMS Requires New Hospital Publicly Reported Measures
  • Micro Practices: the Lean, Mean Physician Machine
  • Primaris Quality Awards
  • Test Drive an EHR
  • Medicare Part D: Medication Therapy Management

FALL 2006

  • Remaking American Medicine Hits Primetime
  • Remaking Missouri Medicine Guide to Quality Healthcare
  • Taking Control of Acute Care Hospitalizations
  • Tis the Season
  • Beneficiary Assistance Program Goes Local
QualityTODAY - Fall 2006 Edition
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SUMMER 2006

  • Battling the Unseen Over-Utilization: One-Day Stays
  • 2005 Primaris Quality Award Winners
    • St. John's Mercy Hospital (Washington)
    • Cheryl "Shari" Thompson (Marshall)
    • St. Luke’s Health System Home Care & Hospice (Kansas City)
    • Granby House (Granby)
  • Partners Make Medicare Part D Assistance a Success

FALL 2006

  • Crossing the Cultural Divide
  • Nonverbal Communication and Patient Care
  • Rulebook Changes: Patients granted new rights to advanced notice and expedited appeal

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