Podcast 13: Process Improvement in Healthcare Programs to Support Addiction Treatment

Podcast 13: Process Improvement in Healthcare Programs to Support Addiction Treatment – Podcast 13, Process Improvement in Healthcare Programs to Support Addiction Treatment, identifies the five principles of business process improvement and how…

Report: Thousands fled Canadian health system in 2012

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Thousands of Canadians continue to flee the country to seek medical treatment abroad, with the United States a common destination. An estimated 42,173 Canadians left their homeland in 2012 to seek medical treatment elsewhere. This is a decrease from …
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18 US women died every day from prescription drug abuse in 2010, feds say

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Debra Wentz, CEO for the New Jersey Association of Mental Health and Addiction Agencies, called the report's findings "disturbing" but not surprising, considering how freely physician prescribe prescription painkillers and the mounting pressures women …
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“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”: The new warrior cop is out of …

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“The typical police raid of these games . . . is to literally burst into a home in SWAT gear with guns drawn and treat poker players like a bunch of high-level drug dealers,” an attorney representing poker players told a local newspaper. ….. raid, he …
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