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19 Apr 2010, 1:38 am
In a conference call with reporters, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius categorized the problem as “incredibly serious,” stating that up to 100,000 deaths are related to hospital-acquired infections each year.This report allows lawmakers to draw attention to provisions in the new healthcare law (Public Law 111-148) that will begin to address this growing problem in the coming years.Language in the new law states that, beginning in 2014, hospitals in the top 25th… [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 1:38 am
In a conference call with reporters, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius categorized the problem as “incredibly serious,” stating that up to 100,000 deaths are related to hospital-acquired infections each year.This report allows lawmakers to draw attention to provisions in the new healthcare law (Public Law 111-148) that will begin to address this growing problem in the coming years.Language in the new law states that, beginning in 2014, hospitals in the top 25th… [read post]
17 Apr 2010, 10:41 am
This week President Obama issued a memorandum to Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, that asks the Secretary to use her rulemaking authority to require all hospitals that accept Medicare and Medicaid patients to respect the wishes of patients with respect to who should be allowed to visit them. [read post]
17 Apr 2010, 7:13 am
Who gets to direct Kathleen Sebelius (and her successors) on how she should "work on this issue? [read post]
16 Apr 2010, 11:14 am
Maybe that history is why I got a genuine all-American lump in my throat when I read President Obama's memo to Kathleen Sebelius on Hospital Patients yesterday. [read post]
16 Apr 2010, 9:06 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) [official website] Secretary Kathleen Sebelius [official profile] to expand the rights [memo] of patients and non-related visitors in hospitals that receive funding from Medicaid and Medicare [official websites]. [read post]
16 Apr 2010, 9:03 am
In a two-page memo to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Obama requested that the Secretary promulgate rules that will increase the chances that the wishes of lesbian and gay hospital patients respecting visitation and decision-making will be respected rather than ignored. [read post]
15 Apr 2010, 6:49 pm
The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, anticipates a new law will improve the rates for hospital-acquired infections and prevent fatalities. [read post]
8 Apr 2010, 8:51 pm
Consumer Watchdog has authored an important letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on loopoholes in PPACA. [read post]
8 Apr 2010, 7:54 am
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to Host Webchat on Health Insurance Reform and Seniors U.S. [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 8:43 am
That’s why Amnesty International is calling on Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and President Obama to create an Office of Maternal Health in the Department of Health and Human Services. [read post]
6 Apr 2010, 5:59 am
Meanwhile, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wasted no time in announcing her department’s intent to clarify potentially confusing language in the new law.PRESIDENT SIGNS RECONCILIATION BILL:President Obama signed into law the second piece of his healthcare overhaul last Tuesday – the reconciliation bill that makes revisions to the larger healthcare bill (Public Law 111-148) that he signed the week of March 22. [read post]
6 Apr 2010, 5:59 am
Meanwhile, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wasted no time in announcing her department’s intent to clarify potentially confusing language in the new law.PRESIDENT SIGNS RECONCILIATION BILL:President Obama signed into law the second piece of his healthcare overhaul last Tuesday – the reconciliation bill that makes revisions to the larger healthcare bill (Public Law 111-148) that he signed the week of March 22. [read post]
3 Apr 2010, 7:08 am
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today issued a letter to governors and independent insurance commissioners asking each state to express their interest in participating in the temporary... [read post]
2 Apr 2010, 9:00 am
Secretary of Health Kathleen Sebelius, conveyed the support of the Government of Spain for a possible bilateral... [read post]
31 Mar 2010, 7:56 am
You would think that folks who went to law school, and even though they never really held a real job, would know how to say what they meant when it comes to writing a law that impacts 340 million people or so.But apparently that is not the case.CNN is reporting that the health insurance industry has beat their swords into plowshares are are now bowing before the Great Wizards of Obamaland.In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the president of… [read post]
30 Mar 2010, 8:02 am
Writes Kathleen Sebelius, cowing the insurance companies into foregoing the use of a loophole that existed in the text the Democrats hastily scribbled.blog advertising blog advertising [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 12:00 pm
"We are grateful to President Obama for his unwavering and longstanding support for the enactment of the Indian Healthcare Improvement Act, which is critical to modernizing and improving the health care we provide to American Indians and Alaska Natives," said HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. [read post]
26 Mar 2010, 2:59 am
And it was through the food registry that FDA learned that a widely used flavoring agent called hydrolyzed vegetable protein, or HVP, made by a Nevada company was contaminated with Salmonella.USDA said the proposed new FSIS rule supports the Food Safety Working Group Key Findings announced last July.President Obama created the Food Safety Working Group one year ago and charged Vilsack and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the co-chairs of the group, with… [read post]
24 Mar 2010, 11:07 am
KATHLEEN SEBELIUS (U.S. [read post]
