Shield HealthCare & The Wound Care Education Institute team up to provide an insightful webinar - peristomal skin complications.

Looking for the latest ENFit update? Click here.   Here’s a quick recap on ENFit: When enteral tubing is accidentally connected to non-enteral tubing (enteral misconnections), patient harm may result. One example of enteral misconnection is a feeding tube connected to an intravenous line. ENFit is a solution to improve patient safety by preventing enteral… Continue reading Infinity Feeding Sets Return to Red Stepped Connectors

By Tracy Seipel for the San Jose Mercury News In a new strategy to force the state to spend more on health care for the poor, civil rights activists on Tuesday alleged that millions of California’s Latinos — who make up the bulk of the state’s 12.6 million Medi-Cal enrollees — are being denied timely access… Continue reading Latinos, Other Medi-Cal Recipients Denied Access to Health Care Activists Allege

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“New Research Could Help to Prevent Blockages Faced by Many Long-Term Catheter Users” by the University of Hampton, published in EurekAlert The image shows a silicon catheter covered in the biofilm after 20 days exposure. New research could lead to new treatments to prevent blockages and urinary tract infections experienced by many long-term catheter users. Up… Continue reading New Research Could Help to Prevent Blockages Faced by Many Long-Term Catheter Users

By Chad Terhune for The Los Angeles Times California’s biggest health insurers are among a select few to show a profit selling Obamacare policies. In the first year of the massive coverage expansion, California’s three largest health insurers bucked the national trend of heavy losses and accounted for half of the gains reported under the… Continue reading California’s 3 Largest Health Insurers among Few to Show Obamacare Profit in 2014

By Virgil Dickson for Modern Healthcare Health plans and state Medicaid directors disagree on how the CMS should fix its problem of underpaying plans with high numbers of dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. In October, the CMS announced it would modify its risk-adjustment model after an analysis of reimbursement data revealed that some health plans… Continue reading Payers, States at Odds on CMS Plan to Fix Dual-Eligible Underpayment

Is It Pressure? See this video of our recent “Identifying Pressure Ulcers: Assessment and Staging” webinar, including a wound identification cheat sheet!

By Rob Smith for Puget Sound Business Journal The Washington Health Alliance has been tapped to participate in a national effort to reduce the cost of health care. The Seattle-based nonprofit organization, which consists of 175 health-care groups across the state, works to bring price transparency to health care, with the goal of reducing costs.… Continue reading Washington Health Alliance Joins National Effort to Reduce Price Confusion

Originally Published by The Lawndale News Building on Chicago’s ongoing efforts to ensure that its residents have access to affordable healthcare coverage, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced at an event with Senior Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett that Chicago will participate in the White House’s Healthy Communities Challenge—a national initiative designed to assist uninsured citizens… Continue reading Chicago Joins White House’s Healthy Communities Challenge