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CMS Changes the Game

Recently, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its “Clarification of Hospital Equipment Maintenance Requirements,” and has roused the profession, prompting debate and the formation of a coalition that includ

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Personnel Management/Supervision

This is a continuation of the previous article on “Personnel Management/Supervision III” that appeared in the July 2011 issue, which discussed compensation, benefits, and incentives. In this article, we will discuss “appraising performance” and

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Combating Alarm Fatigue

If your cell phone had the same ring tone as everyone else’s, would you always answer your phone? In a crowd of people with many phones going off at the same time, you would probably become conditioned to the sound and possibly ignore it. If technology had not leaped forward to allow people to personalize […]

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