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PM orders healthcare improvement in 2010

4 hours ago ago from Bao Viet Nam

In a recent meeting with heath sector representatives, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung ordered better mobilization of all resources to reduce overcrowding in major city hospitals next year. Over the next five years, the health sector must also improve the quality of medical treatment, ensure enough beds for patients, and call for investment in healthcare facilities, Mr. Dung stressed. The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health says ...

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Mental health numbers fight led to split – Surrey Messenger

15 hours ago ago from North Carolina Mental Hope

ELKIN — A long-term dispute over whether a service provider treating local patients is being justly compensated by the area’s mental health management entity has prompted this week’s split between the two agencies. Offi cials with Partnership for a Drug-Free NC, which has provided outpatient services for the past two years in the county, and Crossroads Behavioral Healthcare, the Local Management Entity for those services, said Wednesday ...

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Healthcare Reform Blog- Hospitals struggle under economic depression, AHA study shows

1 hour, 5 minutes ago ago from Untitled: http://michaelsandnes.wordpress.com

WASHINGTON – A new report from the American Hospital Association indicates hospitals are continuing to struggle financially due to the economic depression. With all the changes occurring daily how will Hospitals Survive Healthcare reform? The AHA survey, released Wednesday, shows that 34 percent of hospitals expect to report losses in the first half of 2009, up from 29 percent for the same period last year, and indicators of the ability ...

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Forcing people to buy healthcare insurance

17 hours ago ago from I am dying

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Visa boost for healthcare tourism

16 hours ago ago from AGHNA SERVICES TRADING (SA 0078117-A)

KUALA LUMPUR: Foreign patients entering Malaysia for medical treatment on emergency “visas-on-arrival” (VOAs) will be allowed to convert their entry status to a social visit pass in an effort to promote healthcare travel. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the patients would be able to do so on the recommendation of private hospitals registered under the Health Ministry. “To facilitate the smooth arrival, stay and ...

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Medics test 'Invisible bracelet' for emergency health alerts | detnews.com | The Detroit News

20 hours ago ago from Detroit News

Archive: Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | Today Last Updated: December 21. 2009 4:00PM Medics test 'Invisible bracelet' for emergency health alerts Lauran Neergaard / Associated Press Washington -- Emergency health alerts for the Facebook ...

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