Women to Watch Class of 2012


In May 2006, to coincide with National Women’s Health Month, Nashville Medical News launched a new editorial feature honoring 10 women making a difference in healthcare in our community. .... Read More

 

 



Current Nashville Medical News

Putting EHR in a Starring Role | EHR, Tennessee Medical Association’s Tennessee Foundation for Quality Patient Healthcare, TMA, BlueCross Blue Shield of Tennessee Health Foundation, Q Source, Russ Miller, Dawn Fitzgerald, Calvin Anderson, Angie Madden, tnREC , Inga Himelright, Edward McBride, adoptEHR.com,
Putting EHR in a Starring Role
TMA Videos Showcase Advantages of EHR Adoption

 A series of video presentations encouraging Tennessee healthcare providers to adopt electronic health record (EHR) technology is now available for viewing by physicians, other healthcare providers, and patients across the state...                                                    


 
More for Less

DIATHERIX Technology Offers Faster Diagnoses, Decreases Costs

 A recent case study underscored what Dennis Grimaud knew already … the novel testing technology employed by DIATHERIX Laboratories, Inc. (DLI) not only offers a faster,...

 
Healthcare Execs Reflect on Recent LHC Delegation to D.C. | Leadership Health Care, Nashville Health Care Council, Delegation to Washington, D.C., Health Policy, Healthcare Reform, James Grimes, Ardent Health Services, Melissa Puri, Healthways, Baxter Lee, Emdeon
Healthcare Execs Reflect on Recent LHC Delegation to D.C.
Hopeful … frustrating … engaging …  challenging … contentious — members of the recent Leadership Health Care (LHC) delegation to Washington, D.C. found many ways to describe the prevailing...
 
The Time is Now for Behavioral Health Community to Adopt EHR
 “The breach between what we know and what we do is lethal.”

— Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast

It saddens me, as a former professional in community habilitation...

 
Nurses/Physician Assistants Focus

State PAs, Nurses Focused on Care Delivery to Match Rising Needs
State PAs, Nurses Focused on Care Delivery to Match Rising Needs
While a lack of insurance clearly drives emergency department utilization rates so does limited access to providers. After all, waiting six weeks isn’t a great option for someone who is sick right now...
 
Nursing Education News

Belmont Opens Admissions for New Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree

Belmont University’s Gordon E. Inman College of Health Sciences & Nursing recently announced the start of a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program, which begins fall 2012...


 
Maximum Impact | Scope of Practice, Physician Assistants, Advance Practice Nurses, PA, APRN, APN, Lisa Summers, Ann Davis, Sandy Harding, American Association of Physician Assistants, AAPA, American Nurses Association, ANA
Maximum Impact
Continuing the quest for the least restrictive practice environment

Scope of practice … three small words that invoke passionate responses within the practice setting.

In the trenches, physicians and advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) typically have a highly-collegial,..

 
Utilizing Physician/PA Teams to Improve Efficiency, Patient Satisfaction | Physician Assistants, PA, Ann Davis, Sandy Harding, American Association of Physician Assistants, AAPA
Utilizing Physician/PA Teams to Improve Efficiency, Patient Satisfaction
Although physician assistants are relative newcomers to the healthcare field, they have carved out a niche as one of three primary care providers, along with physicians and advance practice nurses...
 
Recruiting Focus

Compensation Packages See Shift in Benefit Offerings | Employee Benefits, Compensation Packages, Healthcare Coverage, Employee Recruitment, Paradigm Group, The Crichton Group, Bob Levy, Austin Madison
Compensation Packages See Shift in Benefit Offerings

 A $5 Copay? Not Anymore

By any measure, healthcare is one of America’s fastest-growing industries, and that means the competition for qualified employees at all levels has never been greater...


 
Recession’s a Game Changer When Recruiting High-Level Executives | Healthcare Executive Recruiting, Relocation Packages, Teresa Kingery, Kingery & Associates
Recession’s a Game Changer When Recruiting High-Level Executives
Consider these results released in February of a survey of healthcare employers:
  • 35 percent are worried about retaining top talent,
  • 39 percent are worried about their ability to pay competitive wages,
  • 10 percent are worried they don’t have enough money to recruit talent, and...

 
Allied Health Shortage a Recruiting Challenge | Shortage of allied-health professionals, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Health Professions, Medical Group Management Association, Kenneth T. Hertz, Harold Jones, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Allied Health Shortage a Recruiting Challenge
Experts offer tips to lure young graduates

While shortages of doctors and nurses are well documented, the shortage of professionals in allied health is also causing recruiting headaches for hospitals, clinics and group practices...


 
Unmet Needs | Sip Mouden, Dan Hawkins, National Association of Community Health Centers, NACHC, “Health Wanted: The State of Unmet Need for Primary Health Care in America,” Community Health Centers of Arkansas, Nancy A. Sink, Family Health Care of Northwest Ohio, Allen J. Bennett, Park West Health Systems.
Unmet Needs
NACHC report reveals disturbing divergence of supply and demand in primary care

WASHINGTON, DC—Demand for primary care has outpaced supply nationwide, leaving many communities with primary care providers who are absent, unaffordable or inaccessible because of distance, special healthcare needs, insurance status, or cultural barriers...


 
Feature Profiles

Vanderbilt University Hospital Welcomes Back Merrill as Chief of Staff | Walter Merrill, Vanderbilt University Hospital, Vanderbilt chief of staff, Nashville heart transplant
Vanderbilt University Hospital Welcomes Back Merrill as Chief of Staff
A well-respected fixture in Vanderbilt’s medical community has returned after a 10-year leave.Walter Merrill, MD, assumed the position of chief of staff at Vanderbilt University Hospital April 1. The cardiothoracic surgeon also will hold...
 
HEALTHCARE ENTERPRISE: Kroll Offers Needed Background Screenings in Today’s Competitive Environment | Kroll Background Screening, Background Checks, Drug Screening, Recruitment, Education Verification, Jenifer DeLoach, HireRight, Altegrity
HEALTHCARE ENTERPRISE: Kroll Offers Needed Background Screenings in Today’s Competitive Environment
Talk to 10 human resources professionals and they will easily come up with 10 different reasons why it’s important to conduct a background check on potential new employees...
 
Grand Rounds

Grand Rounds May

Alive Hospice Names O’Neal New CEO

Veteran healthcare executive Anna-Gene O’Neal took the reigns at Alive Hospice as CEO on April 1. She has oversight of the nonprofit agency’s hospice care,..


 

Breaking News

CMS Announces 27 ACOs
Under the new Medicare Shared Savings Program (Shared Savings Program), 27 Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have entered into agreements with CMS, taking responsibility for the quality of care furnished to people with Medicare in return for the opportunity to share in savings realized through improved care, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced on April 10. More ...
 
New CDC Research Finds Increase in Autism Prevalence
April is National Autism Awareness Month, and newly-released statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show the prevalence of children in the United States with autism has increased to 1:88 children, up from the 1:110 released just three years ago in 2009. More ...
 
AMA Releases Physician Guide to Medical Management of Home Care Patients
The American Medical Association and the American Academy of Home Care Physicians released a new guidebook to help physicians identify and oversee the wide range of medical and social services available to assist their patients at home. More ... 
 
Big Day in D.C.: Supreme Court Begins Hearings, LHC Reflects on Trip
Leadership Health Care, an initiative of the Nashville Health Care Council, has garnered a well-deserved reputation of impeccable timing. Two years ago, the group was in D.C. within days of the Affordable Care Act being signed into law. This year, they heard from policymakers and pundits in the days leading up to the historic Supreme Court hearings on ACA this week. For reflections on the trip, click here. And for news on the Supreme Court decision as it becomes available, please check back to the Breaking News section of our site.
 
LHC: Congressional Leaders, Staff Address Health System Challenges
LHC: Congressional Leaders, Staff Address Health System Challenges
LHC Delegates Spend Day on The Hill
LHC: Congressional Leaders, Staff Address Health System Challenges
The Tennessee delegation and key congressional staff members spoke with members of the Nashville Health Care Council’s Leadership Health Care (LHC) group during a second day of sessions for LHC’s 10 Year Anniversary trip to Washington, D.C. More ...
 
Former Obama Press Secretary Calls on Nashville Healthcare Leaders to Push for Compromise
Former Obama Press Secretary Calls on Nashville Healthcare Leaders to Push for Compromise
Robert Gibbs Addresses LHC Delegation
Former Obama Press Secretary Calls on Nashville Healthcare Leaders to Push for Compromise
Robert Gibbs, former White House press secretary and special advisor to President Barack Obama, called on Nashville’s healthcare leaders to help forge political compromise and move the nation forward after the 2012 election season comes to a close. More ... 
 
LHC DC Watch: 'Everything Is In Play'
LHC DC Watch: 'Everything Is In Play'
LHC Delegation: Day 1
LHC DC Watch: 'Everything Is In Play'
Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of special reports from the ground during the 10th Annual Leadership Health Care D.C. Delegation. Check back daily for updates and news. 

What will be the outcome of the Supreme Court's review of PPACA? How much will the 2012 election influence healthcare policy? What's next? More ... 


 

Health Tip: When Physical Therapy Ends
Title: Health Tip: When Physical Therapy Ends
Category: Health News
Created: 5/16/2012 8:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/16/2012 12:00:00 AM Posted Thursday, May 17, 2012 2:00 am CDT

Health Tip: When Should I Wash My Hands?
Title: Health Tip: When Should I Wash My Hands?
Category: Health News
Created: 5/16/2012 8:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/16/2012 12:00:00 AM Posted Thursday, May 17, 2012 2:00 am CDT

Dinosaurs May Have Suffered From Arthritis
Title: Dinosaurs May Have Suffered From Arthritis
Category: Health News
Created: 5/16/2012 10:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/16/2012 12:00:00 AM Posted Thursday, May 17, 2012 2:00 am CDT

Palpitations May Signal Future Heart Rhythm Problem
Title: Palpitations May Signal Future Heart Rhythm Problem
Category: Health News
Created: 5/16/2012 10:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/16/2012 12:00:00 AM Posted Thursday, May 17, 2012 2:00 am CDT

Education Is Key to Health: Report
Title: Education Is Key to Health: Report
Category: Health News
Created: 5/16/2012 10:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/16/2012 12:00:00 AM Posted Thursday, May 17, 2012 2:00 am CDT

Americans Living Longer but Obesity Rising
Title: Americans Living Longer but Obesity Rising
Category: Health News
Created: 5/16/2012 11:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/16/2012 12:00:00 AM Posted Thursday, May 17, 2012 2:00 am CDT


Richard Cowart: 3 Nashville health-care execs on cutting-edge list - The Tennessean

Richard Cowart: 3 Nashville health-care execs on cutting-edge list
The Tennessean
Copeland is a nationally regarded family practitioner, having served as chairman and president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, as well as president of the American Board of Family Medicine. Before arriving in Nashville, Copeland practiced ...

Posted Wednesday, May 2, 2012 2:13 am CDT

Dr. Wilkins leaves St. Louis - St. Louis American

Dr. Wilkins leaves St. Louis
St. Louis American
She is leaving her position as associate professor at Washington University School of Medicine and director of the Center for Community Health and Partnerships to become the new executive director of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance in Nashville, ...

Posted Thursday, May 10, 2012 12:25 am CDT

Dell Awards $100000 Grant to Ronald McDonald House Charities for Work in 14 US ... - Citybizlist (press release)

Dell Awards $100000 Grant to Ronald McDonald House Charities for Work in 14 US ...
Citybizlist (press release)
The money is designated to support programs for families with children undergoing pediatric cancer treatment. "Dell has proven itself to be a company which is dedicated to the health and wellness of the communities in which they live and operate," said ...

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Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2012 8:31 pm CDT