| Direct admissions: VIP treatment or risky business? |
| Thursday, March 18, 2010 |
| A year ago, Darren Sommer, DO, MPH, received a new directive from his VPMA: Come up with a policy to accept direct admissions. Dr. Sommer, the hospitalist medical director at Southeastern Regional Medical Center in Lumberton, N.C., explained that his group would rather not accept direct admissions because of concerns about patient safety.
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| Implanted pump keeps him alive - Works like a heart |
| Wednesday, March 17, 2010 |
| Yes, it's kind of weird having an electrical cord coming out of a hole in your belly, just below your rib cage.... More Information |
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| New Health Clinic Being Built In Lancaster |
| Monday, March 15, 2010 |
| Construction is under way in Lancaster on a new health clinic.
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| Physicians Working Fewer Hours a Week - New FP Says Trend Is Better for Work-Life Balance |
| Monday, March 15, 2010 |
| Physicians in various specialties, of all ages, both genders and employed in different settings are working fewer hours a week, but the largest decrease in the number of hours is among younger physicians, according to a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA.
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| Lighten up in the name of health |
| Sunday, March 14, 2010 |
| Is there anything to the adage, "An ounce of prevention ..."? If you speak to health care professionals, they would respond with an enthusiastic, "Absolutely."
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| Snack attack - Weighing in on trend of offering treats to kids at every function |
| Sunday, March 14, 2010 |
| If, as the old saying goes, you are what you eat, then American kids must be snacks.
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| New medical facility opens in East Petersburg |
| Thursday, March 11, 2010 |
| Lancaster General Health staff members and East Petersburg Borough officials celebrated the opening of East Petersburg Family Medicine late last month.
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| Report: Franklin & Marshall College chief lands Drexel post |
| Wednesday, March 10, 2010 |
| John Fry, the ambitious, forward-moving president of Franklin & Marshall College, will be named to the top seat at Drexel University today, according to news reports.
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| S'no Stopping Them - Nurses and others braved blizzards of 2010 in name of patient care. |
| Wednesday, March 03, 2010 |
| Imagine: A limousine ride, a light repast in a café, fresh linens, toiletries, even candy on the pillow. A night in a four-star hotel? No, these were creature comforts offered to nurses and other healthcare providers holed-up at a variety of hospitals during the blizzards of 2010.
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| Seasonal flu goes missing this year - County, state, nation report few cases |
| Friday, February 26, 2010 |
| That run-over-by-a-bus feeling? It's a no-show this winter.
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