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Caregivers: You Must Make Yourself a Priority
If you are a caregiver - have you let taking care of yourself fall off the to-do list? For those who are in the role of a caregiver, it’s time to put YOU back on top! Taking care of your physical and emotional needs is one of the most important things you can do as a...
National Influenza Vaccination Week
National Influenza Vaccination Week (NIVW), December 4-10, 2016, provides an opportunity to remind everyone 6 months and older that it is not too late to get a flu vaccine. There are many tools and resources to help in your efforts to share flu prevention and...
Costs to Manage Diabetes – A Life-Threatening Obstacle
Insulin Cost Warrants Call for Congressional Investigation Increasing costs for medication to manage diabetes have become a life-threatening obstacle and the American Diabetes Association is calling for action. Despite advancements in manufacturing since the discovery...
National Handwashing Awareness Week
National Handwashing Awareness Week (December 4 - 6, 2016) is dedicated to helping people remain healthy one handwash at a time. Given the prevalence of preventable Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs) among individuals and their family members, this observance aims to...
Top Three Factors for Unexpected Healthcare Cost Increase in 2015
Prescription medication, hospitalizations and emergency room visit costs showed the biggest increase in cost contributing to a 4.6% overall increase for 2015. Health Care Cost Institute completed a data analysis from the nation’s four major insurers to investigate...
“It always seems too early, until it’s too late.”
Having the Conversation.... It’s not easy to talk about how we want our end of life to be. However, it is one of the most important conversations you can have with your loved ones. All too often, family members are left to make choices and healthcare decisions on...
CMS Launches New Online Tool to Make Quality Payment Program Easier
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released a tool to share automatically electronic data for the Medicare Quality Payment Program. This new release is the first in a series that will be part of CMS’s ongoing efforts to spur the creation...
Heart Disease Rates Falling: Lifestyle Still a Factor
Heart disease rates in the United States fell 20% in the last four decades. While advances in prevention and treatment are clear contributors to the decrease, risk factors including blood pressure, cholesterol and smoking continue to have an impact. Recent...
Tobacco Use is the Leading Preventable Cause of Cancer and Cancer Deaths
Forty percent of cancers in the US are linked to tobacco use. According to the latest CDC Vital Signs report, quitting tobacco use at any age can reduce the risk of getting or dying from cancer. Tobacco use can cause not only lung cancer, but also cancers of the mouth...
CDC’s Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship
The Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship has been published, access it today. Also, see below for details on next week’s webinar discussing the Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship as part of CDC’s Get Smart week. Recent reports show that...