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MedPro Scores 87 Percent Sales Revenue Increase in Second Quarter

WAUKESHA, Wis., July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- MedPro Imaging, a premium provider of new and refurbished ultrasound solutions, reported an 87 percent increase in sales revenues for the second quarter of 2009 compared to Q2 2008. The growth was supported by the sale of more than 90 new...

RES-Q Labor Resource Management Scores the Highest Among Staff/Nurse Scheduling System Solutions Analyzed in the 2009 KLAS Mid-term Performance Review

Based on Direct Product Evaluations and In-depth, Confidential Interviews Conducted by KLAS with Healthcare Executives and Managers, RES-Q's Solution for Enterprise Staffing and Scheduling Earned the Highest Score in its Market Segment. Calabasas, CA (PRWEB) July 8, 200...

Kids Group Scores Obama, Congress in 100 Days Report Card

Premier National child advocacy organization grades child health care reform 'incomplete' WASHINGTON, May 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As he passes the 100 days milestone, President Obama continues to enjoy high ratings from Americans on a majority of issues, but both his administration and 1...

Response to 'Association Between Hospital-Reported Leapfrog Safe Practices Scores and Inpatient Mortality,' Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA); April 1, 2009

Statement of Leah Binder, CEO The Leapfrog Group WASHINGTON, March 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Today's JAMA study provides useful insight into the study of patient safety and inpatient mortality and will be used by The Leapfrog Group as we continually refine and improve the measur...

CiCi's Pizza Scores Top Marks on Men's Health 'Eat This, Not That!' Report Card

Healthier Pies on the Buffet Line Given Praise Including Zesty Vegetable, Alfredo, Ole and One Point Measured Weight Watcher Pizza Available by Request at All CiCi's Locations COPPELL, Texas, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- CiCi's Pizza announces that the endless buffet concept earned top marks in t...

Atlanta School of Massage Grads Beat National Test Scores By Wide Margin

Graduates of Atlanta School of Massage, taking the National Certification Examination for Therapeutic Massage for the first time, achieved a pass rate more than twenty points higher than the national average. Atlanta, Georgia (PRWEB) January 18, 2009 -- Graduates of Atl...

Care Improvement Plus Achieves Top Scores for First SNP Evaluation Measures

BALTIMORE, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Care Improvement Plus, one of the nation's largest chronic condition Special Needs Plans (SNPs), announced today that it has received top scores from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in the evaluation of its structure and process measures. T...

Corbett Worldwide Scores Gold at the 2008 MM&M Awards

CHICAGO, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Corbett Worldwide Healthcare Communications, a leading advertising/promotions business unit of the Corbett Accel Healthcare Group, received a Gold award at the recent Medical Marketing & Media (MM&M) Awards celebration, confirming that their creative MarketMovi...

Reading, math scores up for 4th and 8th graders, federal report shows

The nation's fourth and eighth graders scored higher in reading and mathematics than they did during their last national assessment, according to the federal government's latest annual statistical report on the well-being of the nation's children. Not all the report's findings were positive; ther...

LMS CALM(R) receives high customer satisfaction scores in the 2008 KLAS Labor and Delivery report

MONTREAL, April 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - LMS Medical Systems (AMEX: LMZ ; TSX:LMZ), a healthcare technology company and developer of the CALM patient safety software system for obstetrics is pleased to announce receiving a score of 88.8 in the KLAS 2008 Labor and Delivery report, read by th...

Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility Scores 3-Year Accreditation and Among Highest Rated in the United States

"Nearly Perfect" Score by the American Correctional Association Auditors Earns High Praise From Board Chair Romanowicz CENTRAL FALLS, R.I., April 4, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- After an exhaustive three-day audit and examination by the American Correctional Association Commission on Accre...

Hospital for Special Surgery Reports Scores on HCAHPS Survey

Ranks above National Average in Overall Patient Satisfaction and Other Areas NEW YORK, March 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hospital Quality Alliance today released the first Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) scores for hospitals...

Folate scores a win in animal studies: Brief, high doses of B vitamin blunt damage from heart attack

Long known for its role in preventing anemia in expectant mothers and spinal birth defects in newborns, the B vitamin folate, found in leafy green vegetables, beans and nuts has now been shown to blunt the damaging effects of heart attack when given in short-term, high doses to test animals. In...

APHA Scores Members of Congress on Public Health Voting Record

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Public Health Association (APHA) today released its annual congressional record, which measures how members of Congress voted on legislation that is important to public health. APHA's report was compiled by examining hundreds of in...

Study suggests adjusting PSA scores for obese men or cancers may be missed

DURHAM, N.C. -- Doctors may be missing cancers in obese men because the telltale blood marker used to detect the disease can be falsely interpreted as low in this population, according to a new study led by Duke Prostate Center researchers. Obese men have more blood circulating throughout their...

DuPont Scores a Hat Trick for Innovation

LONDON, October 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The achievements of the global crop production and protection industry were celebrated at the inaugural Agrow Awards ceremony held on October 16 in Glasgow. The awards are intended to bring wider recognition to an industry whose contribution to our lives is o...

D.I.S.C. Scores First Sponsorship Deal as Official Medical Center of the Los Angeles Kings

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- D.I.S.C. (Diagnostic and Interventional Spinal and Sports Care) announces its first major sponsorship deal as the "Official Medical Center" of the N.H.L.'s Los Angeles Kings hockey team. The one-year agreement launches the Marina del Rey-based D.I.S.C. into...

Compirion Healthcare Sponsors Webinar on 7 Mistakes That Lower Patient Satisfaction Scores

ELM GROVE, Wis., July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- 7 Mistakes that Lower Patient Satisfaction Scores: Achieve Top 20th Percentile Rankings Within 4 Months is the second in a series of free webinars sponsored by Compirion Healthcare Solutions, a hospital process improvement firm. With federal...

Relationship and Results Oriented Healthcare Announces New Faculty With Impressive Patient Satisfaction Scores

Hansten Healthcare's New Faculty Improves Patient Satisfaction Scores Through Implementing the RROHC Bundle of Best Practices PORT LUDLOW, Wash., Feb. 27 -- Hansten Healthcare PLLC , a healthcare firm dedicated to transforming organizations through relationship enhancement and skill dev...

Virginia Hospital Center Reports HCAHPS Scores

ARLINGTON, Va., April 1, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the national Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA) have released HCAHPS scores that cover patient satisfaction from an overall hospital rating to nine other dimensions of a patient's hospi...

Poor Working Memory Tied to Low School Scores

Team develops tool to test for kids who may have this genetic shortcoming MONDAY, March 3 (HealthDay News) -- Poor working memory, rather than low intelligence, could be the reason why some children are underachievers at school, says a British study. Working memory is the ability to...

Fixing Poor Vision Boosts Preschoolers' Test Scores

Early intervention with glasses brought them up to snuff with peers, study finds WEDNESDAY, Feb. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Preschoolers with poor vision significantly improved their test scores within six weeks of consistently wearing prescription glasses, a new study shows. "It has be...

Low Test Scores Of Children Linked To Their Date Of Conception

Parents, dont blame your children anymore for low test scores. According to American research, lesser grades in children are linked to the time of their conception-which unfortunately they cant help. Announcing results of a first-time study, Dr. Paul Winchester of Indiana University School o...

Can Giving More Homework Improve Test Scores For Children?

Educations intuitions and policy makers have been in constant pressure to improve educations patters and homework policies. A recent study of global homework// patterns done by a group of researchers from Penn State, suggests that the benefits of more homework assignments to boost student test scor...

Warm Watermelon Scores Over Cold In Nutritive Value

Washington: Researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture have indicated the enhanced nutritive benefits of watermelon at normal temperature as against cold Watermelon. // According to scientists, watermelons are a production house of nutrients even after they are severed from the paren...

Breathing Exercises Scores Over Inhalers

A report on asthma and exercises says, for people with mild asthma, shallow breathing through the nose, and some non-specific upper body exercises, will make people to use a reliever inhaler very rarely//. A medical journal Thorax focuses that breathing techniques are the most commonly used alt...

Milk Chocolate, Cinnamon, And Peppermint Scores Good For Brain

In Wheeling Jesuit University some researchers found that milk chocolate containing caffeine has been good for keeping brain alert, controls impulses// and having better reaction times. Hence, chocolate lovers were found to have better cognitive abilities than others. Adding value to t...

PET-CT Scores High On Precision for Diagnosing Ovarian Cancer Recurrence

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have established via a study, the high reliability factor of PET-CT for detecting recurrent ovarian cancer// , which is perhaps even more precise than mere CT or PT conducted exclusively. The researchers analyzed 54 body CT, PET and PE...

Extra Time for Students With Learning Disabilities Does Not Skew SAT Scores

Requests for extended time are the most common but contentious accommodation requests made by students with learning disabilities (LD) and/or AD/HD taking college entrance and licensing exams. According to a new study in Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, students given extra time respond ...

Ability to process information as a baby continues into adulthood

... had taken the Fagan Test as babies in their first year of life. They also looked at their first IQ tests at the age of 3 and compared them with their scores at 21 years old. They discovered an association with intelligence between this early ability to process information and IQ during their young adul...

Combo Treatment May Ease Depression After Stroke

...and had been diagnosed with clinical depression. The researchers found that eight weeks of the combined treatment resulted in a 47 percent decrease in scores on standardized scales that rate depression, compared with a 32 percent decrease among people who had received usual care, which included taking antid...

Crisco(R) Announces the Crisco Live Smart, Cook Smarter Contest Winners

...ste and the top five entries were posted on www.Crisco.com for a nationwide vote in May. Selected through a combination of online votes and scores from a panel of judges, one grand prize winner will be awarded $25,000 for a kitchen makeover. The four runners-up will each receive a $5,000 to be u...

Pilot study: Workplace yoga and meditation can lower feelings of stress

...tervention can lead to lower levels of stress hormones. For the pilot study, the researchers recruited 48 adult office workers with body mass index scores lower than 30 who exercised less than 30 minutes on most days of the week. Half were randomized to the intervention and half were wait-listed to recei...

Consumer Reports Survey: HMOs Beat PPOs on Cost, Customer Support and Billing Services

...hoice than in the past. While overall satisfaction scores were similar, respondents in HMOs paid less for pr...ort. HMOs came out on top again, and had top notch scores for ease of navigation, easy access to forms, and ...ck Consumer Reports' ratings. Survey reader scores are based on overall satisfaction with the health ...

Compirion and Anderson Surgery Center Reduce OR Inefficiencies and Improve Finances

...ine metric baselines Improve Core Measures scores Improve OR utilization Improve first-c...faction was at 99.5% Patient Satisfaction scores increased from the 74th to the 94th percentile ...e starts are up to 84% Staff Satisfaction scores increased 15.8% Cancellations decreased 13% ...

FDA Approves INVEGA(R) SUSTENNA(TM) for the Acute and Maintenance Treatment of Schizophrenia

... to placebo in improving positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS) total scores in the acute treatment trials and significantly delayed time to relapse vs....g INVEGA SUSTENNA met its primary endpoint of significantly improving PANSS scores relative to placebo. The efficacy of INVEGA SUSTENNA in maintaining...

Free Compirion Webinar Promotes Nurse Rounding to Improve Patient Safety

...ELM GROVE, Wis., July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Art of Nurse Rounding : P rovide a Safer Environment for Patients While Improving Overall Satisfaction scores is the latest in a series of free webinars presented by Compirion Healthcare Solutions . This important webinar will help Charge Nurses , Nurse ...

Calcium Scan of Arteries Helps Spot Big Trouble

...rom the two tests. The results showed that the participants with calcium scores above a certain level were at highest risk of death or major problems and w...han 400 offered incremental prognostic value over the scintigraphic [SPECT] scores alone," the journal report said. The study results indicate that calcium...

LSUHSC contributes to revealing targets to reduce racial disparity in prostate cancer deaths

...American men had more aggressive cancer as measured by Gleason score. Compared with African Americans, Caucasian men exhibited higher physician trust scores and a greater likelihood of reporting a physician office as their usual source of care, seeing the same physician at regular medical visits, and being...

BayCare Named to Top 100 Best Companies To Work For in Florida by Florida Trend Magazine

...icies, practices, philosophy, systems and demographics. The second part consisted of an employee survey to measure employee satisfaction. The combined scores determined the top companies and the final ranking. Best Companies Group managed the overall registration, survey and analysis process and determined ...