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		<title>Sanford-Brown Open House—May 17th</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enroll today at Sanford-Brown&#8217;s Open House on May 17th*. Classes Start May 29th. Thinking about Healthcare Education? Experience Sanford-Brown and come to our Open House Event at one of its Sanford-Brown campus locations! You&#8217;ll learn more about: Classes that leverage advanced technology and modern equipment Access to externship sites for practical, real-life experience with real patients [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May Kartoon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 16:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>How Salable is Your Healthcare Business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 16:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ralph Manning and Beth Pearson For most entrepreneurs, their retirement plan is to sell the business and use the proceeds to fund their retirement life style.  They don’t want to hear that their business isn’t salable. What makes the difference between a company that can reward the owner for the years spent in building [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hospital Zone: The Six Sigma Solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jason Piatt Here&#8217;s what we know. In manufacturing, Six Sigma methodologies aim at improving overall quality by eliminating defects and achieving near perfection by restricting the number of defects to less than 3.4 defects per million opportunities.  It has become a very popular and widely utilized quality improvement methodology in manufacturing environments.  So, how can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family Hospice Accepting Names for Celebration of Life Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Family Hospice and Palliative Care, a non-profit organization that is Pennsylvania’s leading hospice provider, is accepting names for its “Celebration of Life Wall,” which provides a unique way to memorialize loved ones. The granite structure is being erected on the campus of The Center for Compassionate Care, Family Hospice’s inpatient center in Mt. Lebanon. For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Progress and Promise of ACOs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Accountable Care]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mike Cassidy, Esq. Since Accountable Care Organizations (“ACO”) are one of the featured topics for the May edition of Hospital News, I thought it would be appropriate to revisit the progress and evaluate the promise of ACOs to date. I last wrote on this topic in the December 2011 Thought Leader column, and indicated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare Professionals: Remember Motorcycle Safety</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Edgar Snyder, Esq. As healthcare professionals, you may have seen firsthand the devastation caused by motorcycle accidents. Even if you don’t have direct contact with patients, chances are you’ve heard about how serious motorcycle injuries can be. Already this year there have been several deadly collisions involving motorcycles on the news. Soon thousands will take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developmental Therapists—Gatekeepers for Pediatric Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In medicine, general practitioners are known as the gatekeepers to the health care system. They look at the overall health of a patient before directing them to other specialists if needed. Developmental therapists serve in much of the same role in children, especially in children ages birth to five who may need Early Intervention services due [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Issue 4 of Hospital News Now Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 10:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Latest Issue]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our latest issue is now online! Be sure to check it out and forward it onto your friends and colleagues. Download it now. If you have any bylined articles or news to share with our readers in the next issue, please email me at hdkart@aol.com. These are the focus areas for May: Nursing, Social Media, Improving Quality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Alzheimer’s Training Now Available To Local Family Caregivers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 02:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The local Home Instead Senior Care® offices are offering a unique approach to help area families in the Greater Pittsburgh area manage the challenges of Alzheimer’s and other dementias, diseases that eventually rob seniors of their memories and independence. Free training for families caring for these older adults is now available through online e-learning modules, available [...]]]></description>
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