. Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:47:46 -0500 From: "Barbara Acello, RN" <bacello@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: Net-Gold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: Net-Gold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [Net-Gold] TX and SW Articles . TX and SW Articles New standards for physicians' 'certified' status Austin American-Statesman By Mary Ann Roser Doctors working in Texas emergency rooms and their allies lined up once again to tell the Texas Medical Board on Friday that a ... <http://www.statesman.com/news/texas/ new-standards-for-physicians- certified-status-1006813.html> New standards for (TX) physicians' 'certified' status HealthLeaders Media Doctors working in Texas emergency rooms and their allies lined up once again to tell the Texas Medical Board on Friday that a year-in-the-making rule ... <http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/ content/QUA-258440/New-standards-for- TX-physicians-certified-status> ER doctors settle squabble on certification Houston Chronicle But the Texas Medical Board also put in place a compromise grandfathering in those emergency doctors certified before Sept. 1, 2010, by an alternative ... <http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ metropolitan/7270420.html> Whooping cough cases increase in Texas TheRecordLive.com Call your doctor, nurse, local health department, or the Texas Department of State Health Services, Immunization Branch at (800) 252-9152. <http://therecordlive.com/article/ Beyond_the_County/Beyond_the_County/ Whooping_cough_cases_increase_in_Texas/57903> If Heart Attack Grill comes to Houston, a quadruple bypass burger and ... CultureMap By Steven Thomson People donning hospital gowns and nurses in typically tight outfits chowing down together. Is this a cafeteria in the Texas Medical Center ... <http://culturemap.com/newsdetail/ 10-29-10-heart-attack-grill/> The time has come for health care criminal law reform Ortho SuperSite The overall trend towards harsher federal sentences is significant for health care providers; since the False Claims Act, Medicare and Medicaid prosecutions ... snip The overall trend towards harsher federal sentences is significant for health care providers; since the False Claims Act, Medicare and Medicaid prosecutions all fall within the federal jurisdiction. It is, furthermore, a disturbing phenomenon for at least two reasons. First, criminalizing business activities is an ambiguous process, since no bright light separates criminal from noncriminal conduct. Can a physician or surgeon ever be certain that lease arrangements, contractual provisions, or the receipt of research grants cross a line that will subject him or her to federal indictment? Even federal appellate courts have struggled to define business activity that is criminal. http://www.orthosupersite.com/ view.aspx?rid=77216 Lufkin doctor pleads guilty to health care fraud KTRE BEAUMONT, Texas (Press release) A Lufkin physician has pleaded guilty to charges of health care fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas ... <http://www.ktre.com/Global/ story.asp?S=13424106> Study: Alcohol More Lethal Than Crack Or Heroin CBS 4 Drinking rated the worst when measuring the damage to families and economic costs including health care, social services, and prison. When drunk in excess, ... <http://cbs4.com/health/ alcohol.lethal.drug.2.1990374.html> Judge sentences Dallas man who threatened Obama Washington Post He posted the message "Obama must die" the night Congress passed a health care overhaul bill. The posting said Miller was following through on a vow to ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/ article/2010/11/01/AR2010110105575.html Intentional swallowing of foreign bodies and its impact on the cost of health care EurekAlert (press release) Thirty-eight percent of the patients were from private homes in the community, while nine percent were from prison. More than half of the patients were ... http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ 2010-11/l-iso102810.php Harrington named LNHA 'CNA of the Year' AbbevilleNow.com Geraldine Harrington has been selected the 'Certified Nursing Assistant of the Year' by the Louisiana Nursing Home Association. ... http://www.abbevillenow.com/view/ full_story/10122456/article-Harrington- named-LNHA-%E2%80%98CNA-of-the-Year %E2%80%99?instance=Lifestyle%20Home%20Page Hudson first school in state to host nursing program KTRE By Holley Nees - email HUDSON, Texas (KTRE) - Selena Stephenson is 17 years old, and on track to be a licensed vocational nurse by the time she's 18. ... http://www.ktre.com/Global/ story.asp?S=13426096 High-Tech Medical Care: Technology lifts patient care [El Paso Times, Texas] TMCnet When a nurse calls with a concern, Aun can examine the relevant information in real time, to determine the best course of action. ... http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/ -high-tech-medical-care-technology- lifts-patient-care-/ 2010/11/01/5104819.htm "Barbara Acello, RN" <bacello@xxxxxxxxxxx> .