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February 1, 2000
Training Is Key to Building Up Computer Skills
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
Daniel Costello
As computer applications for home medical equipment providers play a wider role in billing, inventory management and other areas, these potentially costly...
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Tapping Into New Markets
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
Richard Park
Scooters used to be treated like a neglected stepchild in the family of mobility products, playing second fiddle to wheelchairs. But with recent changes...
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A More Perfect Union
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
J.P. Pieratt
Alexandria, Va. In what could be considered a pivotal move in the future of home health care, three national health care industry associations have merged.The...
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HCFA Introduces New Oxygen, Walker Codes
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
Washington The Health Care Financing Administration has established new codes for all oxygen concentrators and a special type of walker. Both codes went...
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State News
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
New Jersey Governor Signs Needle Safety Bill Trenton, N.J. In an effort to decrease needlestick injuries in the health care workplace, New Jersey Gov....
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Coram Healthcare Undergoes Restructuring
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
Denver Battered by a lawsuit, financial woes and the resignation of two top officers, Coram Healthcare is eliminating positions, consolidating departments...
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No Prosecution For Columbia, Olsten Execs
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
Susanne Hopkins
Miami After a two-year criminal probe that cast a specter of fraud and abuse on the entire home health care arena, the U.S. attorney's office in Miami...
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ProviderNews
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
People News Brent Martini has been appointed to the board of directors of Orange, Calif.-based Bergen Brunswig. Martini is president of company subsidiary...
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IN SHORT . . .
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
John Pieratt
Amedisys Sells Interest In Texas Surgery Center Baton Rouge, La. In a move toward becoming what chairman and chief executive officer William Borne called...
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IN SHORT . . .
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
Datex-Ohmeda To Focus More On Home Care Market Tewksbury, Mass Datex-Ohmeda has created a Continuing Care division to bring enhanced customer service...
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ManufacturerNews
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
Briefly Noted Medisys Technologies, Baton Rouge, La., will expand production capabilities for its hypodermic safety syringe that has received Food and...
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Graham-Field Opts for Chapter 11 Protection
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
Bay Shore, N.Y. Graham-Field Health Products and some of its subsidiaries have filed voluntary petitions for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from creditors...
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Fresenius Division Fined by FDA
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
Newark, N.J. The U.S. Justice Department ordered NMC Medical Products, a division of Fresenius Medical Care North America, to pay a $3.8 million fine...
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The 1990s: A history of problems for Graham-Field
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
1996-G-F purchases Earth City, Mo.-based Everest & Jennings.1997-G-F purchases Quebec-based wholesaler Motion 2000; Kuschall of America, Camarillo, Calif.;...
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Take a Deep Breath
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
Medicare reimbursement cuts and the resulting demand from providers for inexpensive, high-quality products have forced manufacturers of respiratory products...
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Words at Work
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
Valerie J. Nelson
AS SUCCINCT as haiku, the four stanzas are titled "Our Mission." Sixty words that seek to define the soul of a home medical equipment company.To honor...
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Hand in Hand with Hospice
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
Susanne Hopkins
WHEN GEORGE BLOCK took a training class to be a hospice volunteer, he had no idea it would eventually help boost his home medical equipment company's...
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One of the Good Guys
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
J.P. Pieratt
HE WAS TIRED of it. It was on television and in the newspaper, and he was just plain sick of hearing his profession and the industry he was a part of...
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When Loyalty Wins
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
Ken Gurnick
THEY CHANGED the name of Edie Hoover's home medical equipment provider two years ago, the byproduct of industry consolidation. As far as Hoover is concerned,...
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Fighting the Good Fight
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
Susanne Hopkins
FOR 10 YEARS, Frank Rubensohn has battled the effects of multiple sclerosis. And for 10 years, he has fought for just about every piece of home medical...
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Rapping About CPAPs
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
Kimberly Schworm
IN THE EARLY 1990s, Dave Hargett didn't have much trouble passing the time during his daily commute from downtown Chicago to his home in the suburbs....
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Doing What It Takes
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
Ken Gurnick
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS was diagnosed in 1980, and it slowly chipped away at Bill Budd's life. First he needed a cane. Then a walker. Then a scooter. Now he's...
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What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
CONCEPTS SUCH AS "customer service," "consumerism" and "being customer-focused" are hoisted on flagpoles and waved in the face of business owners on almost...
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Coming Up for Air
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
Claire Sykes
JERRY GORBY loved his Pall Malls. Too bad his 33-year-old tobacco habit didn't love him back. Twelve years after he finally quit smoking, he ended up...
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Searching for the comfort Zone
Feb 1, 2000 12:00 PM,
Richard Park
HOME HEALTH CARE patients have at least one thing in common: They all have to sleep. And because of their ailments, whether it's multiple sclerosis, asthma...
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