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Case Management Focus: What are Your Superpowers?
Case Management Focus: What are Your Superpowers?

The Case Management Society of America Case Management recently updated the Case Management Standards of Practice. In reviewing them, I came across one of the guiding principles that caught my eye. It was that case […]
New Analysis Shows Increases in Obesity, Multiple Chronic Diseases
New Analysis Shows Increases in Obesity, Multiple Chronic Diseases

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – United Health Foundation (UHF), a nonprofit and private foundation established by UnitedHealth Group in 1999, has recently released its 2022 America's Health Rankings report after a two-year gap in reporting. The […]
ANA Releases Campaign to Push Healthcare Legislation through Before Year End
ANA Releases Campaign to Push Healthcare Legislation through Before Year End

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – While most of healthcare is on the same page in supporting Workplace Violence Prevention Health Care and Social Service Workers Act, other proposed legislation has proven to be controversial, creating tension […]
What Do You Think: Was Driver who Died Delivering Mushrooms 'Employed' by Dispatch Company?
What Do You Think: Was Driver who Died Delivering Mushrooms 'Employed' by Dispatch Company?

Harrisburg, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- A truck driver signed an independent contractor agreement with a dispatch company called Race, Inc. Under the contract, Race agreed to obtain delivery jobs for the driver. But the driver could […]
Va. Walmart Employee Sues over Inaction on Shooter's 'Bizarre' Behavior
Va. Walmart Employee Sues over Inaction on Shooter's 'Bizarre' Behavior

Chesapeake, VA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- One of the survivors of the Chesapeake, Va., Walmart shooting has sued the company for $50 million alleging she warned the company about his "bizarre" behavior months he gunned down six […]
Pandemic Oversight Report on Telehealth Reveals Multiple Errors
Pandemic Oversight Report on Telehealth Reveals Multiple Errors

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) is an independent oversight committee of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE). Earlier this month, the Healthcare Care Subgroup that […]
Wash. Reminds Workers that COVID Coverage Requires More than Home Test
Wash. Reminds Workers that COVID Coverage Requires More than Home Test

Tacoma, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- As the COVID-19 pandemic has lingered on to feel like a permanent part of life, it's not surprising that quite a few people opt to skip the line at the drive […]
Are EHR Capabilities Contributing to Physician Burnout?
Are EHR Capabilities Contributing to Physician Burnout?

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Healthcare as a whole is on the brink of even more major changes in an effort to meet the demand in the midst of short staffing. With already unprecedented levels of […]

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