San Mateo County, California, to Pay U.S. $6.8 Million to Resolve False Claims Allegations

Settlement Resolves Allegations Against San Mateo County Medical Center WASHINGTON, March 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- San Mateo County, Calif., has agreed to pay the United States $6.8 million to resolve allegations that the San Mateo Medical Center (SMMC) submitted false claims to the Unit...

SXC Health Solutions announces PBM services agreement with Health Plan of San Mateo

- Five-year agreement expected to generate approximately $50 million in annual revenue for SXC's PBM division, InformedRx - LISLE, IL, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - SXC Health Solutions Corp. ("SXC" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SXCI , TSX: SXC), announces that its pharmacy benefit management...

Quarantine Hits 3 More Hospitals In San Mateo

According to a report, San Mateo Seniors quarantine 3 more medical facilities after the Norovirus outbreak this winter, which is unusually reported more this year than the// past. San Mateo County health officials said today that the gastrointestinal virus outbreak, which has already sickened d...

100+ Nurses to Rally in SF Wed. to Demand Stronger Swine Flu Safety Protections: California Hospitals Remain Unprepared Despite First Nurse Death

... At Long Beach Memorial, RNs report that five RNs were infected after being told to reuse masks. Nurses at Mills-Peninsula Hospital in San mateo report that they are not being notified in a timely manner when they have been exposed to a patient with swine flu. RNs at Tenet Healthcare's Si...

San Francisco Bay Area Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Funds Over $1.6 Million This Year to Community Outreach Programs

...Forum (also in Contra Costa, San Francisco and San mateo County) Circulo de Via Cancer Support and Resource Center (also in San Francisco, San mateo and Santa Clara County) Tiburcio Vasquez Hea...r Breast Cancer Emergency Fund (also in San mateo County) Lyon-Martin Health Services P...

San Francisco Bay Area Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Funds Over $1.2 Million This Year to Community Outreach Programs

...Forum (also in Contra Costa, San Francisco and San mateo County) Circulo de Via Cancer Support and Resource Center (also in San Francisco, San mateo and Santa Clara County) Tiburcio Vasquez Hea...r Breast Cancer Emergency Fund (also in San mateo County) Lyon-Martin Health Services P...

Blue Shield of California Expands CalPERS NetValue Service Area

... - Lower Rate Plan Now Available in Imperial, San Francisco , San mateo and San Luis Obispo Counties - SAN FRANCISCO, July 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Blue Shield of California announced t...

Long-term care costs exceed yearly income for many Calif. seniors living alone

...Costa County and $16,792 in San Francisco County. The cost of long-term care paired with basic living expenses is highest in San Francisco and San mateo counties: $48,446 and $48,441, respectively. In 38 counties (65.5 percent of all counties), the cost of long-term care paired with basic living ex...

Aviation Law Expert Offers Guidance on How Families of Air France Flight 447 May Seek Compensation from Airline

... San mateo attorney Mike Danko provides explanation of Montreal Convention and how it governs airline liability in international flights. ...

Engineer helps poor in developing nations purify drinking water

...cteria while the porous clay simply filters it out. For the last three years, Craver has been studying the use of the filters by 70 families in San mateo Ixtatan, a Mayan community in Guatemala. "One of our challenges is getting the filters accepted in the communities," Craver said. "Many people we ...

Mateo in Medical Technology

Clinician Reports Fast Healing of Intractable Wounds Using MEDIHONEY(R)

...logy Center, OK) The use of Active Leptospermum Honey in a variety of non-healing wounds in the Long Term Care Setting (Mary Webb, San mateo Medical Center, CA) About Derma Sciences Derma Sciences is a global manufacturer and marketer of advanced wound care produ...

Mateo in Biological News

Research with squirrels provides clues on hormone's role in human learning

... learning, but that impact is not well understood, mateo said. The research on ground squirrels could poin... cortisol are apparently linked to their survival, mateo reports in the article, Inverted-U shape relations... animals with low levels have difficulty learning, mateo simulated a natural setting with a maze and connec...

Mateo in Biological Technology

Derma Sciences Announces Multiple Clinical Posters Featuring MEDIHONEY(R) and ALGICELL Ag(R) to be Presented at Upcoming Wound Care Conference

...ve Leptospermum Honey impregnated calcium alginate." (MEDIHONEY(R) & XTRASORB(TM)) Mary Webb, RN, BSN, MA, CIC, Infection Control Practitioner San mateo Medical Center, San Mateo, CA "A cost-effective alternative: Investigating absorbent gelling calcium alginate dressings with antimicrobial silver." ...

Will mobile phones go back to school?

...ll phones in their backpacks. That has some school administrators worried. Last week, in one example local to Silicon Valley, administrators at San mateo Union High School District debated new policy to ban the use of camera and video phones. Echoing the fears that SMS messaging was the new tool of chea...