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		<title>Medicare &#8211; Eliminating Unnecessary Hospital Visits</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnaLise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General-Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hospital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hospital Admissions Hospital Readissions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medicare is looking for a way to create more seamless transitions from the hospital to home, skilled nursing care, or home health care.  These transitions include helping te patients stay well enough that they don't have to return to the hospital.
For years, it has been said that most people who are readmitted into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting an Infection from the Hospital</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnaLise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General-Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hospital]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[infection]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[staph infection]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many times have you heard about someone coming home from the hospital after a successful operation, but they just didn’t get well.  In fact, they got worse and worse until they ended up back in the hospital again.  The doctors couldn’t figure out what happened until certain tests were performed and they found out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Put it in Writing</title>
		<link>http://medicare-medicaid.com/medicare/put-it-in-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 17:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnaLise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General-Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emergency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hospital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us live our lives without too many emergencies to interrupt us.  As a result, we have a tendency to get pretty comfortable and not be totally prepared in the event of certain emergencies – especially medical emergencies.  
 
This can put us in a mess if we are suddenly faced with a medical situation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Prepared for a Medical Emergency?</title>
		<link>http://medicare-medicaid.com/medicare/are-you-prepared-for-a-medical-emergency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 10:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnaLise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General-Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hospital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life saving]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[medical emergency kit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical information]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently ran across an article about what to do to prepare for a natural disaster.  Since my mother used to work on disasters, such as hurricanes, floods and earthquakes, we were painfully aware of keeping water, blankets and a few other things in the car and a full emergency kit including canned goods, water, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CMS Website Compares Hospitals</title>
		<link>http://medicare-medicaid.com/medicare/cms-website-compares-hospitals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 05:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnaLise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General-Medicare]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[compare hospital prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compare quality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, we have written about comparisons between premiums for Medicare Supplement Policies, prescription drug policies and the coverage itself.  In this piece we will address a study comparing hospitals and Medicare coverage.
The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare (CMS) has created an advertising campaign to the tune of $2 million to help people across the country [...]]]></description>
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